COMPILATION OF FINAL EXAMINATION QUESTION

CHE594 CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING

CHAPTER 2
EXAMINATION: DEC 2014
QUESTION 2
(PO1, CO1, CO2, C2, C3, C4)
Gas phase decomposition of nitrogen dioxide producing nitrogen oxide and oxygen was
carried out in a constant volume batch reactor as depicted in Reaction 2 as follows:
2NO2 2NO O2
Reaction 2.

a) Setup a stoichiometric table for Reaction 2 above.

(6 marks)
b) The decomposition a reaction of Reaction 2 was run at 5.3 atm and at 350 K. Assuming
the reaction was at isobaric and isothermal condition, determine the reaction order and
rate constant, k with unit s-1 for Reaction 2 based on data concentration of nitrogen oxide
indicated in Table 2.

Table 2. Measurement of Nitrogen Oxide concentration at different level of conversion

Conversion(s)
82.6%
75.4%
65%
50.4%
29.6%
0

Concentration, CNO
(mol/L)
0.153
0.139
0.120
0.093
0.055
0

Time (s)
50
40
30
20
10
0

(12 marks)
c) Express the complete rate law for this reaction, taking the answer in (a) and (b) into
consideration.
(2 marks)

EXAMINATION: JUNE 2014

EXAMINATION: DECEMBER 2013

TEST 1: OCTOBER 2014

QUESTION 1
An elementary reaction of liquid solution was carried out in sealed beaker and placed into a
constant temperature bath. The beaker is considered as batch reactor. After various reaction
times, the beaker was removed and quickly cooled to room temperature to stop the reaction.
The chemical reaction equation can be described as follows:
A Product
From the amount of product collected, the conversion was recorded in table below:

Table1: Experiment 1
Time (min)
Conversion (%)
1
0.36
2
0.59
3
0.73
4
0.83
5
0.89
6
0.93
7
0.95
8
0.97
9
0.98
10
0.99
In addition, the temperature dependence of rate constant also has been measured in
separate experiment. The experimental data are summarized as below:
Table 2: Experiment 2
T (K)
k (s-1)
300
0.2
500
0.4
700
0.6
900
0.8
1200
0.95
a) If these data consistent with first order reaction rate, determine the rate constant, k for
experiment 1
(11 marks)
b) Using an appropriate approach, determine the activation energy (E) and pre-exponential
factor (A or k0) for reaction in experiment 2. R is given as 8.314 J/molK.
(11 marks)
c) From data collected in both experiment above, calculate the temperature of reaction in
experiment 1.
(3 marks)