Exam 2

Chemical Reaction Engineering

20 April 2000
Closed Book and Notes

(40 pts) 1). You have been asked by your boss to design a reactor for a liquid phase cracking reaction.
Your boss believes that this reaction can be conducted in one of the CSTR's that is currently
not being used at the refinery. You have available three CSTR's which are summarized in
the table below:
CSTR Volume
(m
3
)
Heat Transfer Area
(m
2
)
1 6.28 17.3
2 6.28 12.6
3 17.67 15.5

a) Which reactor would you recommend using for the cracking process?
b) Determine the conversion of A for your recommended reactor using the graphical method.
Note the conversion from the mole balance for each reactor has been plotted on the graph on
the next page. Note that reactors 1 and 2 give identical conversions.

K 700
K) m J/(hr 000 , 80
K) J/(mol 8.314
Energy) n (Activatio J/mol 626 , 110
K 298 at hr 10 899 . 6
K) J/(mol 4 . 125
K) J/(mol 120
K) J/(mol 4 . 245
A) J/(mol 000 , 80
e) Temperatur (Feed K 450
/hr m 94 . 20
0
mol/hr 4000
n ry Reactio Elementa C B A
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Terms Transfer Heat
: Parameters Rate Reaction
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Exam 2 Problem 1
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