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This document contains 9 problems related to modeling chemical reactors. Problem 1 involves selecting the optimal reactor configuration from available options to maximize conversion for a given budget. Problem 2 calculates conversion for a packed bed reactor with dispersion. Problem 3 analyzes experimental tracer data to determine reactor parameters like dead volume. The remaining problems involve modeling non-ideal reactors using techniques like tanks-in-series and determining conversions.

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Tutorial 11

This document contains 9 problems related to modeling chemical reactors. Problem 1 involves selecting the optimal reactor configuration from available options to maximize conversion for a given budget. Problem 2 calculates conversion for a packed bed reactor with dispersion. Problem 3 analyzes experimental tracer data to determine reactor parameters like dead volume. The remaining problems involve modeling non-ideal reactors using techniques like tanks-in-series and determining conversions.

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Department of Chemical Engineering

IIT Bombay
CL 324 Chemical Reaction Engineering
Tutorial-11
3/11/2014
1. The second order liquid phase reaction A B + C
Is to be carried out isothermally. The entering concentration of A is 1.0
mol/dm3. The specific reaction rate is 1.0 mol/dm3.min . A number of used
reactors (shown below) are available, each of which has been characterized
by an RTD. There are 2 crimson and white reactors and 3 maize and blue
reactors available
Reactor
(min)
(min)
Cost ( $ )
Maize and blue
2
2
25,000
Green and white
4
4
50,000
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
2.5
2
25,000
white
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 ?
2.

The Elementary liquid-phase reaction :

A B
k1= 1 min-1
Is carried out in Packed Bed Reactor in which dispersion is present. What is
the conversion?
Additional Information:
Porosity : 50%
Reactor Length = 0.1 m
Particle Size : 0.1 cm
Mean Velocity = 1 cm/s
2
Kinematic viscosity = 0.01 cm /s
3.
A sample of the tracer hytane at 320K was injected as a pulse to a
reactor and the effluent concentration was measured as a function of time,
resulting in the data shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Tracer Data
Time, Concentration,
Concentration,
Time, t
t
C
C
(min)
3
(g/m )
(g/m3)
(min)
1

0
1
2
3
4
5

0
1
5
8
10
8

6
6
7
4
8
3.0
9
2.2
10
1.5
12
0.6
14
0
The measurement represents the exact concentration at the times listed and
not the average values between the various sampling tests.
Using the given data, do the following:
a) Calculate the Peclet numbers for both the open and closed systems
b) For an open system, determine the space time and then calculate
the % dead volume in a reactor for which the manufacturer's
specifications give a volume of 420dm3.
c) Using the dispersion and tanks-in-series models, calculate the
conversion for a closed vessel for the first-order isomerization
A B
with k = 0.18 min-1.
d) Compare your results in part (c) with the conversion calculated from
the tanks-in-series model, a PFR and a CSTR.
Given Data:
v0 = 60dm3/min; tm = 5.15 min; = 2.49min
4 Revisit Problem P13-5.
(a) What combination of ideal reactors would you use to model the RTD?
(b) What are the model parameters?
(c) What is the conversion predicted for your model?
[From Problem 13.5
A step tracer input was used on a real reactor with the following results:
For t 10 min. then CT = 0
For 10 t 30 min. then CT = 10 g/dm3
For t 30 min, then CT = 40 g/dm3
The second-order reaction A B with k = 0.1 dm3/mol-min is to be carried
out in the real reactor with an entering concentration of A of 1.25 mol/dm3 at
a volumetric flow rate of 10 dm3/min. Here k is given at 325 K.]
5. Consider a real tabular reactor in which dispersion is occurring.
a) For small deviation from plug flow, show that the conversion for a firstorder reaction is given approximately as
X = 1 - exp[ - k + (k)2/Per ]
2

b) Show that to achieve the same conversion, the relationship between the
volume of a plug flow reactor Vp and the volume of a real reactor V, in which
dispersion occurs is
Vp/V = 1-(k)/Pe = 1-kDe/U2
c) For the peclet number of 0.1 based on the PFR length, how much bigger
than a PFR must the real reactor be to achieve the 99% conversion predicted
by the PFR?
d) For an nth-order reaction, the ratio of exit concentration for the raactors
of the same length has been suggested as

CA/CAplug = 1 -

n
n-1
Pe (kCA0 )ln(CA0/CAplug)

What do you think of this suggestion?


e) What is the effect of dispersion on zero order reaction?
6 The second order reaction is to be carried out in a real reactor which
gives the following outlet concentration for the step input.
For 0 t <10 min t h en C T =10 ( 1exp (0.1t ) )
For

t 10 min

then

CT =5+10 ( 1exp (0.1 t ) )

(a) What model do you propose and what are your model parameters,
and ?
(b)What conversion can be expected in the real reactor?
(c) How would your model change and conversion change if your outlet
tracer concentration was,
t 10 mint h en CT =0
For
For

t 10 min

then

CT =5+10 ( 1exp (0.2(t10) ) )

k=0.1 dm3/mol/min, vo=1 dm3/min,

C Ao =1.25 mol/dm 3

7. The F curves for two tubular reactors are shown here, for a closed-closed
system.

(a) Which curve has the higher Peclet number? Explain.


(b)Which curve has the higher dispersion coefficient? Explain.
(c) If this F curve is for the tanks-in-series model applied to the two
different reactors, which curve has the largest number of T-I-S (1) or
(2)?
8.

Consider the following system used to model a real reactor:

b
V11

V21

b = 0,
V1 = V.
Describe how you would evaluate the parameters and .
(a) Draw the F and E curves for this system of ideal reactors used to model
a real reactor using =0.2 and =0.4. Identify the numerical values of
the points on the F curve (e.g., t1) as they relate to .
(b)If the reaction A
B is second order with kC A0 = 0.5 min-1, what is
the conversion assuming the space time for the real reactor is 2 min?
9

Given: E curve obtained from a tracer test:


0.1

E(t)
(min1
)

t
Figure 1: E curve for a non-ideal
reactor
1

To find:

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