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This document contains an assignment for a Chemical Engineering course. It includes 4 questions related to non-isothermal reactor design and kinetics. The questions ask students to calculate conversion, temperature, and reactor volumes for plug flow and continuous stirred tank reactors for various irreversible reactions involving liquids and gases. Graphs are also requested to illustrate conversion, temperature and reaction rate profiles down the lengths of plug flow reactors.

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Assignment No-4

This document contains an assignment for a Chemical Engineering course. It includes 4 questions related to non-isothermal reactor design and kinetics. The questions ask students to calculate conversion, temperature, and reactor volumes for plug flow and continuous stirred tank reactors for various irreversible reactions involving liquids and gases. Graphs are also requested to illustrate conversion, temperature and reaction rate profiles down the lengths of plug flow reactors.

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Laxminarayan Institute of Technology

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Title : Assignment No-4 Date: 28/04/2023


Academic Year : 2022-23
Semester : VI
Course Name : CRE-II
Class : B. Tech. Chemical Engineering/ Technology
Last date of Submission : 04/05/2023

Que 1) Illustrate (with the help of relevant plots) the procedure to find multiple steady states
and hence, how to draw ignition – extinction curves in non – isothermal reactor design. Define
heat generation term and heat removal term.

Que 2) The elementary, irreversible, organic liquid-phase reaction A + B → C is carried out adiabatically
in a flow reactor. An equal molar feed in A and B enters at 27ºC and the volumetric flow rate is 2 dm3/s
and CA0 = 0.1 kmol /m3.

i) Calculate the PFR and CSTR volumes necessary to achieve 85% conversion. What are the reasons for
the differences?
ii) What is the maximum inlet temperature one could have so that the boiling point of the liquid (550 K)
would not be exceeded even for complete conversion?
iii) Plot the conversion and temperature as a function of PFR volume (i.e. distance down the reactor)

Que 3) The elementary, irreversible gas phase reaction. A → B + C is carried out adiabatically in a PFR
packed with a catalyst. Pure A enters the reactor at a volumetric flow rate of 20 dm3/s at a pressure of 10
atm and a temperature of 450 K.

i) Plot the conversion and temperature down the plug flor reactor untill an 80% conversion (If possible) is
reached (The maximum catalyst weight that can be packed into the PFR is 50 kg). Assume that ∆P= 0.0.
ii) What catalyst weight is necessary to achieve 80% conversion in a CSTR?

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Que 4) Normal butane, C4H10, is to be isomerized to isobutane in a plug-flow reactor. Isobutane is a


valuable product that is used in the manufacture of gasoline additives. This elementary reversible reaction
is to be carried out adiabatically in the liquid phase under high pressure using essentially trace amounts of
a liquid catalyst that gives a specific reaction rate of 31.1 h–1 at 360 K. The feed enters at 330 K.
(a) Calculate the PFR volume necessary to process 163 kmol/h at 70% conversion of a mixture 90 mol %
n-butane and 10 mol % i-pentane, which is considered an inert.
(b) Plot and analyze X, Xe, T, and –rA down the length of the reactor.
(c) Calculate the CSTR volume for 40% conversion.
Additional information:

For the elementary liquid-phase reaction make a plot of equilibrium conversion as a function of
temperature.
(a) Combine the rate law and stoichiometric table to write rA as a function of k, CA0, X, and Xe.
(b) Determine the adiabatic equilibrium temperature and conversion when pure A is fed to the reactor at a
temperature of 300 K.
(c) What is the CSTR volume to achieve 90% of the adiabatic equilibrium conversion for v0= 5 dm3/min?
Additional information:

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