Department of Chemical Engineering

Universitas Gadjah Mada

Jl. Grafika No.2, Yogyakarta 55281

UJIAN AKHIR SEMESTER GANJIL 2017/2018

Course : Reaction Kinetics
Day, dates : Tuesday, December 12th 2017
Duration : 150 min
Exam Type : closed book

SCORE PROBLEMS

(25%) 1. The gaseous reaction A → B has a reaction rate of -rA=k.CA. The reaction rate constant,
k=1135 hr-1 at 127ºC. This reaction is to be carried out in parallel tubes with each tube size
of 4 m long and 4 cm inside diameter under a pressure of 10 atm at 127ºC. A production rate
of 500 kg/hr of B is required. How many tubes are needed if the conversion of A is set to
be 90%? Assume perfect gas laws and the reactant stream only contains A. A and B each have
molecular weight of 37 kg/kmol. The gas constant is 8.2057.10-5 atm.m3.K-1.mol-1

(25%) 2. The following data on baker’s yeast in a particular medium at 25ºC and various oxygen partial
pressures were obtained:
PO2 QO2 (no maltose) QO2 (20 mg of
maltose/mL added to the
medium)
0.4 2.86 2.22
0.5 3.70 2.85
1 6.25 3.33
2 8.00 5.00
PO2 = oxygen partial pressure, mmHg
QO2 = oxygen uptake rate, µL of H2 per hour per mg of cells
Vmax (S )
a. Calculate Vmax and the Michaelis-Menten constant KM! rs 
KM  (S )
b. Using the Lineweaver-Burk plot, determine the type of maltose inhibition that causes
the O2 uptake.
Hint:
For a linear equation such as: 𝑦 = 𝑎 + 𝑏 ∙ 𝑥 with n number of data, the value of 𝑎 and 𝑏 can
be estimated from:
(∑ 𝑦)(∑ 𝑥 2 ) − (∑ 𝑥)(∑ 𝑥𝑦)
𝑎=
𝑛. (∑ 𝑥 2 ) − (∑ 𝑥)2
𝑛. (∑ 𝑥𝑦) − (∑ 𝑥)(∑ 𝑦)
𝑏=
𝑛. (∑ 𝑥 2 ) − (∑ 𝑥)2

(30%) 3. Lo-Cat is a gas treating process that removes hydrogen sulfide contamination from gas
streams and simultaneously converts it to solid sulfur product. In this process, a chelated iron
EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetate) solution is used as reactant. A simple representation of
the reaction is:
H2S(g-l) + 2[Fe(EDTA)]-  2H+ + S0 + 2[Fe(EDTA)]2-
(A) (B)
 Department of Chemical Engineering
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Jl. Grafika No.2, Yogyakarta 55281

The reaction is first order with respect to both H2S and [Fe(EDTA)]- and it can be written as:
rA  k  C A  CB
The hydrogen sulfide content of a gas will be reduced from 5 mol% down to 1 mol%. A feed
solution of Fe(EDTA) is available with a concentration of 100 mol.m-3. The process will be
carried out in a continuous tank reactor in which the gas is sparged into the liquid solution. In
addition, Fe(EDTA) solution is fed continuously to the reactor. The tank is equipped with an
impeller to improve contact between the gas and liquid phases.

If both phases can be considered well mixed estimate the required tank volume?
Hint: The gas pressure of A in the interfacial (PAi) can be assumed to be the same as the
PAout.

DATA:
Total pressure (constant) 101325 Pa
Diffusivities in liquid DA = 2.5 x 10-9 m2 s-1
DB = 5 x 10-9 m2 s-1
H2S transport coefficients kAl = 1 x 10-4 m s-1 (in liquid)
kAg = 6 x 10-5 mol m-2 Pa-1 s-1 (in gas)
Henry coefficient HA = 5000 Pa m3 mol-1
PAi  H A  C Ai
Reaction rate constant k = 9 m3 mol-1 s-1
Liquid flow rate L= 9 x 10-3 m3 s-1
Gas flowrate G = 10 mol s-1
Interfacial area a = 200 m2 m-3 (per reactor volume)

(20%) 4. Reaction to reduce a mineral ore (B) with H2 gas (A) to yield metal product is shown as:

A( g )  B( s )  R( g )  S( s )

The inlet flow of solid B consists of spherical particles with:

Particle Size Distribution of B Times for complete
conversion, min
30% of 50-μm radius particles 6
20% of 100-μm radius particles 12
25% of 200-μm radius particles 24
25% of 400-μm radius particles 48

The reaction is carried out in a fluidized-bed steady-state flow reactor. The fluidizing gas is
the gas-phase reactant and the reactor operates under mixed flow regime for both gas and
solid. Find the conversion of solids in the reactor for a feed rate of 1 kg/min if the bed
contains 12 kg solids. The solids are hard and unchanged in size and weight during reaction.
The change in gas-phase composition in the bed is small.

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