INTRODUCTION & THEORY v:

Batch reactor is standard equipment in chemical process industries. It consists

essentially of an autoclave provided with mixing and heat transfer devices as well as with
piping connections for feeding the reactants and taking-off the products. Batch reactor are
used in a number of industries producing small quantities of high-values materials such as
polymer synthesis, crystallization, batch distillation and chemical reaction.

Batch reactor are used for small-scale operations, for testing new chemical
processes that have been fully developed, for the manufacture of high-priced product and for
process that are difficult to convert to continuous operations. In these reactors various
process phase is encountered in a single process batch such as heating, cooling and
reaction phase. These reactions occur as either an exothermic or endothermic reaction and
the control of the batch reactor is essentially treated as temperature control problem. The
reaction that takes place in alkaline conditions is called saponification. The hydrolysis of
ethyl acetate with sodium hydroxide to produce ethanol and sodium acetate is known as a
saponification reaction. The end products of saponification reaction are used in various field
such as for instance, petroleum , textile, cosmetic and paint industries.

Saponification are used in the textile industry to remove insoluble calcium salts. It is
also are used in the food industry as a tampon in haemodialysis. The hydrolysis of ethyl
acetate is characterized by a model of a second-order reaction. Based on this experiment,
the reaction of the saponification of ethyl acetate Et (Ac) and sodium hydroxide NaOH as
shown as below

NaOH + Et ( Ac ) → Na ( Ac )+ EtOH
 Figure 1 : batch reactor process

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Batch Reactor 1. Batch Reactor M. Awais Yaqoob 2011-ch-32 (University of Engineering

and Technology, Lahore) 2. Mean residence time (t) • It is taken as the measure of the
performance of batch reactor t =v/υ= volume of reactor Flow rate of feed in the reactor
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