University of Tripoli

Faculty of Engineering
Chemical Engineering Department

Advanced Reaction Engineering CHE625

Homework (i-clicker Question)

Zaineb Farag Abdullah

Registration Number 2223006
Dr. Hadi Elakrami

2024
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1) For the reaction below, which is the limiting reaction?
A + 2B + 3C → Products
FA0 = 2 mol⁄sec , FB0 = FC0 = 5 mol/sec

A) A
B) B
C) C
Answer is C, because is the less value

2) Which change cannot increase the rate −𝑟𝐴

A) Raise temperature
B) Use better Catalyst
C) Switch to better type reactor
D) Change solvent in liquid phase reaction
Answer is C, rate law is independent of reactor type.

3) Which compound is the limiting reactant ?

A + 2B + 5C → Products
NA0 = 4moles
NB0 = 7 moles
NC0 = 9 moles
A) A
B) B
C) C

Answer is C, because is the less value

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4) Which compound is the limiting reactant?
3A + 2B + 4C → Products
NA0 = 5moles
NB0 = 4 moles
NC0 = 9 moles
A) A
B) B
C) C

Answer is A, because is the less value

5) Why does the flow rate of products out of the reactor usually increase with increasing volume
in a CSTR when the inlet flow rate remains constant?

A) Large volumes increase the amount of time the fluid spends in the reactor on average.
B) Large volumes increase the concentration of reactants
C) Large reactors are easier to mix
Answer is A, it has more time to react, so more product is produced

6) The figure below describes the kinetics with three reactor in series. By swapping the order of
the reactors it may be possible to increase the conversion. What is the best order for the greatest
conversion?

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A) Switch CSTR 1 and PFR

B) Switch CSTR1 and CSTR2

C) Switch PFR and CSTR2
D) Leave them the way they are
Answer is C, CSTR not occupy the area under the curve, so they have a high conversion.

7) Which change cannot increase the rate constant k ?

A) Raise temperature
B) Use better Catalyst
C) Switch to better type reactor
D) Change solvent in liquid phase reaction
E) all of these can increase k
Answer is C, rate constant is not affected of reactor type.

8) Which is most likely to be an elementary reaction?

Answer is D, two molecules colliding to form a third molecules in one step.

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9) Two isothermal CSTRs are in series for first order reaction R → P. Based on the reactor setup
below, estimate how the volume of reactor2 compares to that of reactor1

2 2 𝑉2
Answer is D, Volume of reactor1 = 3∗𝑘 , Volume of reactor2= 𝑘 =3
𝑉1

10)Two isothermal CSTRs are in series for second order reaction R → P. Based on the reactor
setup below, estimate how the volume of reactor2 compares to that of reactor1

4 4 𝑉2
Answer is E, Volume of reactor1 = 9∗𝑘 , Volume of reactor2= 𝑘 =9
𝑉1

11) For two system below for the first order reaction R → P ,which must be true about the
Reactor volumes?

Answer is B, multiple CSTRs can be used to reduce the overall reactor volume

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12) Two isothermal CSTR s are used for a first order liquid phase reaction. Both operate at the
same temperature and same inlet volumetric feed rate. Estimate how the volumes of reactors 1
and 2 compare.

0.1 4 𝑉2
Answer D, Volume of reactor1 = , Volume of reactor2= = 36
0.9∗𝑘 𝑘 𝑉1

13) An exothermic, liquid phase reaction takes place in an isothermal batch reactor. The total
enthalpy of the reactor is ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬.

A. highest initially

B. highest after 3hr

C. the same at 0 and 3hr

Answer A, it starts highest than less energy after time.

14) An exothermal liquid phase reaction takes place in an adiabatic batch reactor. After 3h, the
temperature has increased. the total enthalpy of the reactor is ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬.

A. greatest initially

B. greatest after 3hr

C. the same at 0 and 3hr

Answer C, the reaction is adiabatic, enthalpy has not change

15) Assuming an Arrhenius type rate constant for an endothermic reaction, which reactor is
likely to be smaller to obtain 50% conversion for R → P?

A. isothermal reactor at 100 ℃

B. Adiabatic rector , feed temperature at 100℃

C. Both reactors will be the same size

Answer A, in a isothermal reactor the temperature remains higher at 100℃

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16) The concentration of R vs distance in PFR is shown for the first order, exothermic reaction
R → P. one curve represents an isothermal reactor, and other an adiabatic reactor. Which
statement is correct?

A. 1 is adiabatic,2is isothermal

B. 1 is isothermal, 2 is adiabatic

C. Either could be adiabatic or isothermal

Answer A

17) The elementary reaction:

𝐴+𝐵 →𝐶+𝐷
Is carried out with equimolar amounts of A and B. in one process, A and B loaded into a batch
reactor and the conversion is 90% in a 2 process, the same amount of B is fed in a semi-batch
mode. Which process takes longer?
A. Batch
B. Semi-batch
C.Time will be the same

Answer B, semi batch takes longer

18) The length of a packed bed reactor doubles while keeping the inlet and outlet pressures
constant. The gas flow rate through the longer PBR is ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬the original gas
flow rate in the shorter PBR.

A. higher than

B. the same as

C. approximately 75% of

D. approximately 50% of

Answer C, 75 %

19) The elementary gas-phase reaction

2𝐴 + 𝐵 → 3𝐶

Is carried out in a packed bed reactor in which the pressure drops from 20 bar at the inlet to 10
bar at the exit. if the inlet pressure increases to 40 bar, the conversion ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬.

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A. increases

B. decreases

C. stays the same

Answer A, pressure is high rate of reaction is high that means the conversion is high.

20) A liquid phase 2 order reaction has 30% conversion in single isothermal PFR. What
conversion would be obtained in 4 PFR series with the same total volume as the original PFR?
The feed temperature and pressure do not change.

A. >30%

B.<30%

C.30%

Answer C. the same volume same conversion

21) A liquid phase second order reaction achieves 50% conversion in an isothermal PFR. Which
conversion is closest to that expected for 20 isothermal CSTR s in series? the feed condition and
the volume are the same for PFB, CSTR.

A. 40% B.45% C.50% D.55%

Answer C, the same volume

22) The reaction 2𝑅 ↔ 𝑃 + 𝑆 takes place in a conventional PFR. Which of the plots below show
molar flow rate as a function of reactor volume for this type of reactor?

Answer A, equilibrium is reached.

23) A packed bed, isothermal reactor has 40% conversion for an irreversible, zero –order, gas-
phase reaction. The pressure drops from 10 bars at the inlet t 2.5 bar at the outlet. To increase
conversion, the reactor length was increased by 50%, but the inlet and outlet pressures remained
the same. The production rate of product increased by ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬.

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A.0%

B.25%

C.50%

D.100%

Answer C, the length increases the conversion increase at zero order.

24) A packed bed, isothermal reactor has a conversion of 40% for an irreversible, zero –order,
gas phase reaction. the pressure drops from 10 bar at the inlet to 2.5 bar at the outlet. To increase
conversion, the reactor length was increased from 10m to 15m, but the inlet and outlet pressures
remained the same. The conversion in the longer reactor is approximately ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬.

A.40%

B.50%

C.60%

D.80%

Answer D

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Chapter 2
1) Which reactor type will require the lowest volume to achieve a conversion of 40%?

A. CSTR B.PFR C. Need more date

Answer A, the lowest volume.

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2) For which kinetic situation, A or B, would a PFR require a lower volume for 60%conversion?

A) A B) B C.) Volume the same D) Not enough information

Answer B, less volume.

3) For which kinetic situation A or B would a CSTR require a lower volume for 60%
conversion?

A. A B. B C. volume be the same

Answer C, same volume

4) Which type of reactor would most efficiently achieve a conversion of 60%?

A. CSTR B.PFR C. Batch

Answer A, CSTR

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5) What batch time is required to achieve 80% mole conversion for the following kinetics, if the
beginning concentration of the limiting reactant A is 10 mol/dm3 ?

A. 4h

B. 8h

C.16h

D.24h

E.32h

𝑑𝑥
Answer D, 𝑡 = 10 ∗ −𝑟𝐴 = 10 ∗ 2.4 = 24

6) Approximately what batch time would be necessary in a constant-volume reactor to achieve

80% conversion given the following kinetic date if CA0 is 2 mole/𝑑𝑚3 ?

A. 12min

B.24min

C.48 min
𝑑𝑥
Answer C, 𝑡 = 2 ∗ −𝑟𝐴 = 2 ∗ 24 = 48

7) what order of reactors will lead to the highest conversion?

Reactor1: PFR Reactor 2: CSTR Reactor 3: PFR

A. 1,2,3

B. 3,2,1

C. 2,1,3

D. 1,3,2

E. 3,1,2

Answer A, for high conversion

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8) Consider the two isothermal reactions and their equilibrium constants

Reaction 1 : 𝑅 + 𝑆 ↔ 𝑃 𝐾1 = 1000

Reaction 2 : 𝑅 + 𝑁 ↔ 𝑄 𝐾1 = 78

For a feed to an isothermal reaction that contains R, S and N in eqimolar amounts, which
conclusion is correct?

A. Reaction 1 reaches equilibrium first.

B. Reaction 2 reaches equilibrium first.

C. Reaction 2 has a higher conversion at equilibrium

D.None of these

Answer D, none of these

9) The Gibb’s free change for two reactions is

Reaction 1 : 𝑅 ↔ 𝑃 ∆𝐺 = −20 𝑘𝐽⁄𝑚𝑜𝑙

Reaction 2 : 𝑆 ↔ 𝑄 ∆𝐺 = −40 𝑘𝐽⁄𝑚𝑜𝑙

An equimolar mixture of R and S is fed to an isothermal reactor. Which reaction is most likely to
be closest to equilibrium at the reactor outlet?

A) Reaction 1

B) Reaction 2

C) Impossible to tell

Answer is C.

10) Which plot represents the rate of reaction vs time for the batch isothermal, first order
reaction 𝑆 → 𝑃

Answer is C

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11) An isothermal batch reactor is used to carry out a first order reaction. The initial
concentration of a reactant was 4mol⁄L. After 15 min, is concentration was 2mol⁄L. What is the
concentration after 30 min?

A) 0mol⁄L

B) 0.5mol⁄L

C) 1 mol⁄L

D) None of the above

Answer is C

12) Which of the following is not an example of a rate law?

𝑘
A. 𝑟𝐴 = 𝐶
𝐴

B. –𝑟𝐴 = 𝑘𝐶𝐴

C. −𝑟𝐴2 = 𝑘𝐶𝐴
𝑑𝐶𝐴
D. −𝑟𝐴2 = 𝑘 𝑑𝑡

E. 𝑟𝐴 = 𝑘𝐶𝐴 + 𝑘𝐶𝐴2

Answer is D, rate law are algebraic relationships

13) A semi-batch reactor for 𝑅 + 𝑆 → 𝑃 starts with 10 mol S in the reactor . R is added at 1
mol/min. What is the closest plot to 𝐶𝑃 vs time after a long time ?

Answer is D.

14) A 1-order 𝑅(𝑙) → 2𝑆(𝑔) takes place in an isothermal batch reactor. The solubility of gas S in
liquid R is low, so S appears in the gas phase almost as soon as it forms. Which plot represents
how the rate of reaction per liquid volume changes with time?

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Answer B, R will not change

15) The liquid to solid reaction 2𝑅(𝑙) → 𝑃(𝑠) takes place in an isothermal batch reactor .The
solid is not soluble in the liquid . The rate of reaction is 𝑟𝑝 = 𝑘𝐶𝑅 . Which plot represents the rate
of P formation per liquid volume versus time?

Answer C, rate will no change

16) consider an isothermal plug flow reactor with a zero –order reaction

Suppose the inlet flow rate of R doubles. How does the rate change?

A. doubles

B. decreases to half its value

C. dose not change

Answer C, will no change

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17) if the initial rate for a 1-order and a 2-order reaction are the same, which will obtain 90%
conversion faster in an isothermal batch reactor?

A. Reactor 1

B. Reactor 2

C. There is no difference between the two reactors

Answer A, the rate of the 2 order reaction will decrease much faster so it takes longer to get 90%
conversion

18) The elementary reaction

At equilibrium 𝐶𝐺 = 0.1𝑚𝑜𝑙/𝐿 and 𝐶𝑃 = 2 𝑚𝑜𝑙/𝐿 which rate constant is larger ?

A.𝑘𝐹 (forward rate constant)

B.𝑘𝑅 (reverse rate constant )

C. 𝑘𝐹 = 𝑘𝑅

D. cannot be determined

Answer A, rate are equal and since the concentration of G is smaller than P than the rate 𝑘𝐹 is
larger .

19) The gas phase elementary reaction

2𝑅 ↔ 𝑃 + 𝑆

Has an equilibrium constant of 0.67. conversion vs distance along a plug flow reactor is shown
below. The dashed line is for a feed that is 50% R and 50% inert. For the same total molar
flowrate, pressure and temperature which profile corresponds to a feed that is 25% R and
75%inert?

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Answer B, because the 25% of R it takes longer to reach the same conversion because 2 order

20) four isothermal, plug floe reactors are run in parallel, each with a different gas- phase
reaction. the conversion of R in each reactor is 50%, and the feed is equimoler in R and S. For
which reaction would you expect the mole fraction of R to be the same at the outlet as at the
inlet?

Answer, C. for numbers of moles decrease than reacting

21) Suppose that S is in great excess wrt R in the elementary, isothermal, liquid-phase reaction:

If the initial concentration of S is doubled while leaving the concentration of R constant, the
instantaneous rate at any time in a batch reactor will ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬.

A. decrease

B. remain the same

C. increase but less than double

D. double

E.at least double

Answer is E at least double

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 𝑑𝐶𝑅
22) For the gas-phase reaction 2𝑅 → 𝑃 + 𝑄 = −𝑘𝐶𝑅
𝑑𝑡

Under what conditions is tis relation true?

A. always

B. never

C. in constant volume batch reactor

D. if the reaction is elementary

E. if the reaction is elementary and constant volume batch reactor

Answer is E

23) Hydrogen and bromine react to produce HBr and the rate dependence on concentration is:

The apparent reaction order with respect to 𝐵𝑟2 will ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬as the concentration
𝐵𝑟2increases over a wide range at fixed HBr and 𝐻2 concentration .

A. transition from 1 to 2 order

B. transition from 2 to 1 order

C. transition from 0 to 1 to 2 order

Answer is B

24) A catalyst increased the rate constant of the forward reaction in a reversible reaction by a
factor of 105 .

Estimate how much the rate constant of the reverse reaction increased.

A. factor of 105

B. factor of ln(105 )

C. the rate decreased

E. cannot determine

Answer is A, increase with increasing reaction

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25) Consider a plug flow reactor with a zero –order reaction

Suppose the inlet flow rate of M doubles, how does the percent conversion change?

A. doubles

B. decreases to half its value

C. does not change

Answer B, because of zero order the conversion is relate to inlet flow

26) A zero order reaction 𝐴 → 𝐵 is carried out in an isothermal semi-batch rector . the reactor is
initially one third full of reactant and additional reactant is added at a constant feed rate. the
reactant feed is stopped when the reactor is full and then the reaction is carried out almost to
completion. Which plot best represents how the total rate of product formation RB changes with
time?

Answer B, the RB increases until the tank is full the rate is constant until the reaction is almost
complete.

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