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20S1-CH7003 CH7003-ADVANCED REACTION ENGINEERING Content Take Test: Reaction Engineering Mid-term quiz ?

Take Test: Reaction Engineering Mid-term quiz

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Description The mid-term quiz covers all examinable materials from lectures 1 - 6.

Instructions You have 75 minutes to complete questions 1 - 20. You may start any time between 9:30 and 10:30 AM on Friday 25 September 2020.

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QUESTION 1 5 points   Saved

For reaction in a catalyst pellet, if the rate is proportional to (particle diameter)0.33. What is the most likely value of
the Thiele Modulus?

0.1

10

QUESTION 2 5 points   Saved

From a heat management point of view, which of the following reactor con guration is best for a highly exothermic
gas-phase reaction?

PFR

CSTR

PFR in series with CSTR

CSTRs in series

QUESTION 3 5 points   Saved

Which of the following reaction types favour two CSTR in series over a simple PFR?

Successive attack reactions

Exothermic reactions

Elementary unimolecular reactions

Reactions involving volumetric expansions

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QUESTION 4 5 points   Saved
 Which of the following statement about Langmuir isotherm is NOT true?
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Surface coverage is a function of temperature
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Surface coverage is a ected by the presence of a species competing for adsorption sites.

Surface coverage is a function of partial pressure or concentration of the reactants

Surface coverage is a function of porosity.

QUESTION 5 5 points   Saved

Reaction A (g) + B (g) → C (g) over a catalysts surface is described by the following elementary steps:
A + S ⇌ AS
B + S ⇌ BS
AS + BS ⇌ CS
CS ⇌ C + S
where S is a surface active site. If the reaction is rst order with respect to the partial pressure of A and -1th order
with respect to the partial pressure of B. What can be said about the surface of the catalyst?

The surface is relatively clean of adsorbates.

The surface is dominated by adsorbed C.

The surface is dominated by adsorbed A.

The surface is dominated by adsorbed B.

QUESTION 6 5 points   Saved

An Arrhenius analysis is performed on a reaction. T is temperature in Kelvin and k is the apparent rate constant. The
following Arrhenius plot is obtained. What can we say about the reaction regime at high temperatures?

At high temperatures, the rate is controlled by intra-particle mass transfer.

At high temperatures, the rate is controlled by chemical reaction.

At high temperatures, the rate is controlled by external mass transfer.

At high temperature, the rate is controlled by chemical equilibrium.

QUESTION 7 5 points   Saved

Which reactor con guration is ideal for an autocatalytic reaction?

Two identical CSTR in series

PFR followed by CSTR

PFR with an optimised recycle ratio

CSTR followed by PFR

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 Which of the following reactor con guration is the best for an exothermic reaction?
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Con guration A

Con guration B

Con guration C

Con guration D

QUESTION 9 5 points   Saved

The reaction pathways for the hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde (CAL) is shown below. All four reactions are rst
order with respect to the partial pressure of hydrogen gas. In order to maximise the yield of cinnamyl alcohol (CAL),
what would be the best reactor con guration?

Multiple CSTRs in series

PFR

PFR with recycle

CSTR

QUESTION 10 5 points   Saved

Which of the following may be an elementary reaction?

2NO + O2 = 2NO2

CH4 + 4Cl2 = CCl4 + 4HCl

CaO + CO2 = CaCO3

Additional polymerisation of ethylene to polythene.

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QUESTION 11 5 points   Saved
 For a bimolecular surface reaction A (g) + B (g) → C (g), with the elemental steps:
A + S ⇌ AS
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B + S ⇌ BS
AS + BS ⇌ CS
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CS ⇌ C + S
if the adsorption of C is much stronger than the adsorption of A and B, what would be the rate determining step?

The desorption of C

The surface adsorption of B

The surface adsorption of A

Surface reaction

QUESTION 12 5 points   Saved

Which of the following variable a ects the equilibrium conversion of the water-gas-shift reaction:
CO + H2O ⇌ CO2 + H2?

Total pressure

Temperature

Reactor design

Formulation of the water-gas-shift catalyst

QUESTION 13 5 points   Saved

Given that adsorption is always an exothermic process, how would the equilibrium surface coverage change with as
temperature increase?

Increase

Remain constant

Increase then decrease

Decrease

QUESTION 14 5 points   Saved

For the heterogeneous catalytic reaction A ⇌ R, which step is rate controlling is the pressure dependency of the
apparent rate is as follows?

The desorption of R.

The adsorption of A.

Intra-particle di usion

Surface reaction.

QUESTION 15 5 points   Saved

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 Parallel reactions

Reactions
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low single-pass conversion, e.g. Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

Autocatalytic reactions
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Successive attack reactions requiring intermediate products

QUESTION 16 5 points   Saved

Which of the following equation is the most appropriate for describing the adsorption isotherm of ozone molecules
(O3) on an catalyst surface at 100 °C?

QUESTION 17 5 points   Saved

Which of the following does NOT act as a poison to heterogeneous catalysts?

Stable surface intermediates that are produced by an undesirable reaction pathway.

Spectator species that irreversibly adsorb to the catalysts surface.

Reactants that do not adsorb onto the catalyst surface.

Products that do not desorb from the catalyst.

QUESTION 18 5 points   Saved

Which of the following a catalyst cannot necessarily do?

Increase the rate of reaction

Increase the conversion of reaction

Make reaction go via an alternative reaction pathway

Achieve 100% selectivity towards the desired product

QUESTION 19 5 points   Saved

How does a reaction involving volumetric expansion a ects reactor sizing?

Always requires a larger reactor than the case without volumetric expansion

Depends on the rate expression

Does not change reactor sizing

Always requires a smaller reactor than the case without volumetric expansion

QUESTION 20 5 points   Saved

The reaction pathways for the hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde (CAL) is shown below. All four reactions are first order
with respect to the partial pressure of hydrogen gas.
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If the activation energies of k1, k2, k3 and k4 are E1, E2, E3, and E4, respectively. Also E3>E1>E2>E4. Which reactor
con guration will maximise the yield of hydrocinnamyl alcohol (CAL)?

Low temperature PFR

High temperature CSTR

Low temperature CSTR

High temperature PFR

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