Lecture 10

Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRE) is the

field that studies the rates and mechanisms of
chemical reactions and the design of the reactors in
which they take place.

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Definition of Selectivety
Instantaneous SD/U = rD/rU
Overall = FD/FU

Semibatch Reactors

Selectivity in Multiple Reactions

Selectivity
Instantaneous SD/U = rD/rU
Overall

D/U = FD/FU

Keep CA high and CB low.

Yield

Semibatch reactors
Semi Batch reactors can be very effective in maximizing

selectivity in liquid phase reactions.

The reactant that starts in the reactor is always the limiting
reactant.

Semibatch reactors
Semibatch reactors
A+BC+D
B, v0

Initial V

Liquid level and volume increase

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Semibatch reactors
Mass Balance:

Semibatch
1) Mole balances:
Species A:
in out + gen = acc

Semibatch
1) Mole balances:
Species B:

Semibatch

Semibatch
2) Rate Law:
3) Stoichiometry:

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4) Parameters:

Semibatch Example
B, v0

CO2

example: A + B C + D + CO2
1a) Mole balances:

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Semibatch Example
1 b) Mass balances:

2) Rate Law:
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Semibatch Example
3) Stoich:

4) Parameters:
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Polymath Screenshots:

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Semi Batch Reactors

Three Forms of the Mole Balance applied to Semi Batch Reactors:
1. Molar Basis

2. Concentration
Basis

3. Conversion
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Consider the following elementary reaction:

A+B C+D
-rA=kCACB
The combined Mole Balance, Rate Law, and Stoichiometry
may be written in terms of number of moles, conversion,
and/or concentration:
Conversion

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Concentration

No. of Moles

Polymath Equations:

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Equilibrium Conversion in Semibatch

Reactors with Reversible Reactions
Consider the following reaction:

A+BC+D
Everything is the same as for the irreversible case, except for the
rate law:

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Equilibrium Conversion in Semibatch

Reactors with Reversible Reactions
Where:

At equilibrium,

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Xe changes with time.

then

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