REACTION ENGINEERING 1 CHE502

TUTORIAL 1- Topic 1

1. What are the factors that control rate of chemical reactions?

2. Define reaction rate. What is the unit for reaction rate?

3. Ammonia can be made to burn according to the reaction below:

4NH 3 (g ) 5O 2 (g ) 4NO(g ) 6H 2O(g )
Suppose that at a particular moment during the reaction the ammonia is reacting at the
rate of 0.24 mol L-1 s-1

a) What is the rate at which oxygen is reacting?

b) What is the rate at which H2O is being formed?

4. Define the term activation energy.

5. The rate constants for the reaction between Cl and H2 at 230 and 240C have been
found to be 0.163 and 0.348 L mol-1 s-1, respectively. What are the values of Ea in
kJ/mole and A for this reaction?

6. The activation energy for the reaction

HI (g ) I 2 ( g ) 2HI (g )
is 138 kJ/mol. At 200C the rate constant has a value of 1.32 x 10-2 L mol-1s-1. What is
the rate constant at 300C?

7. Calculate the activation energy for the decomposition of benzene diazonium chloride to
produce chlorobenzene and nitrogen based on data below:

k (s-1) 0.00043 0.00103 0.00180 0.00355 0.00717

T (K) 313.0 319.0 323.0 328.0 333.0