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The second-order liquid-phase reactionA → B 4- Cis to be carried out isothermally. The ent...

The second-order liquid-phase reaction

A → B 4- C

is to be carried out isothermally. The entering concentration of A is 1.0 mol/dm3. The specific reaction rate is 1.0 dm3/mol-min. A number of used reactors (shown below) ate available, each of which has been characterized by an RTD. There are two crimson and white reactors and three maize and blue reactors available.

Reactor

σ(min)

τ(min)

Cost

Maize and blue

2

2

$25.000

Green and white

4

4

50000

Scarlet and gray

3.05

4

50,000

Orange and blue

2.31

4

50,000

Purple and white

5.17

4

50,000

Silver and black

2.5

4

50,000

Crimson and white

2.5

2

25,000

(a) You have $50,000 available to spend. What is the greatest conversion you can achieve with the available money and reactors?

(b) How would your answer to (a) change if you had $75,000 available to spend?

(c) From which cities do you think the various used reactors came from?

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