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Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Chemical Reaction Engineering - II (CL 313)


Assignment – 5
Last Date of Submission – 01/11/2024, 11:59pm
Instructions:
 Each question carries 10 marks.
 The plots should be well described with legends, titles, grids, etc.
 The MATLAB files that do not show the required plot or answers will be graded 0.
 The plot in MATLAB files (.m) should match the plot that has been shown in the
solution (.pdf), otherwise it will be graded 0.
 Submit a single zip file in Google Classroom.
 The zip file should contain respective MATLAB files (.m) and 1 solution (.pdf).
 Save the MATLAB files as: yourname_last3digitofroll.no._questionnumber.m (E.g.:
XYZ_123_Q1.m)
 Save the solution file as: yourname_last3digitofroll.no.pdf (E.g.: XYZ_123.pdf)
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1. The hydrogenation of ethylbenzene (ETB) to ethylcyclohexane over a nickel-mordenite


catalyst is zero order in both reactants up to an ethylbenzene conversion of 75%. At
553K. kr = 5.8 mol ethylbenzene/(dm3 of catalyst·h). When a 100 ppm thiophene
concentration entered the system, the ethylbenzene conversion began to drop.
You can assume first order decay.
𝐶
𝑘 𝑡 = ln(𝑘 ) + ln
𝐶 −𝐶

Time (h) 0 1 2 4 6 8 12
Conversion 0.92 0.82 0.75 0.50 0.30 0.21 0.10

The reaction was carried out at 3 MPa and a molar ratio of = 0.1. Discuss the
catalyst decay.

2. The dehydrogenation of cyclohexane to benzene and hydrogen is mass transfer-limited


at high temperatures. The reaction is carried out in a 5-cm-ID pipe 20 m in length
packed with cylindrical pellets 0.5 cm in diameter and 0.5 cm in length. The pellets are
coated with the catalyst only on the outside. The bed porosity is 40%. The entering
volumetric flow rate is 60 dm3/min.
a) Calculate the number of pipes necessary to achieve 99.9% conversion of
cyclohexane from an entering gas stream of 5% cyclohexane and 95% H 2 at 2 atm
and 500°C.
b) Plot conversion as a function of length.
c) How much would your answer change it the pellet diameter and length were each
cut in half?
Additional Information,
Dab= 0.857 cm2/s
Note: Use Thoenes and Kramers correlation for kc (given in Fogler Textbook).

3. The irreversible gas-phase reaction


𝐴 ⎯⎯⎯⎯ 𝐵

is carried out adiabatically over a packed bed of solid catalyst particles. The reaction is
first order in the concentration of A on the catalyst surface:
−𝑟 = 𝑘 𝐶
The feed consists of 50% (mole) A and 50% inert and enters the bed at a temperature
of 300 K. The entering volumetric flow rale is 10 dm3/s (i.e., 10,000 cm3/s). The
relationship between the Sherwood number and the Reynolds number is
Sh = 100 Re1/2
As a first approximation, one may neglect pressure drop. The entering concentration of
A is 1.0 M. Calculate the catalyst weight necessary to achieve 60% conversion of A for
Adiabatic operation.

Additional Information,
Kinematic viscosity: µ/p = 0.02 cm2/s
Particle diameter: dp = 0.1 cm
Superficial velocity: U = 10 cm/s
Catalyst surface area/mass of catalyst bed: a = 60 cm2/g cat.
Diffusivity of A: De = 102 cm2/s
Heat of reaction: ΔHRx = -10,000 cal/g mol A
Heat capacities:
𝐶 =𝐶 = 25 cal/g mol · K

𝐶 (solvent) = 75 cal/g mol · K

k’ (300 K) = 0.01 cm3/s·g cat with E = 4000 cal/mol


4. An antibiotic drug (Pills) is contained in a solid inner core and is surrounded by an outer
coating that makes it palatable. The outer coating and the drug are dissolved at different
rales in the stomach, owing to their differences in equilibrium solubilities.
a) If D2 = 4 mm and D1 = 3 mm. Calculate the time necessary' for the pill to dissolve
completely.
b) Assuming first-order kinetics (kA = 10 h-1 ) for the absorption of the dissolved drug
(i.e. in solution in the stomach) into the bloodstream. The concentration in grams of
the drug in the blood per gram of body weight as a function of time when the
following three pills are taken simultaneously:
Pill 1: D2 = 5 mm. D1 = 3 mm
Pill 2: D2 = 4 mm. D1 = 3 mm
Pill 3: D2 = 3.5 mm. D1 = 3 mm
c) Discuss how you would maintain the drug level in the blood at a constant level
using different-size pills?
Additional information:
Amount of drug in inner core = 500 mg
Solubility of outer layer at stomach conditions = 1.0 mg/cm 3
Solubility of inner layer at stomach conditions = 0.4 mg/cm 3
Volume of fluid in stomach = 1.2 L
Typical body weight = 75 kg
Sh = 2., DAB = 6 X 10-4 cm2/min

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