CHE 322 Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory

KING KHALID UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Laboratory Report for

CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING

EXPERIMENT NUMBER: 3

CSTR-EFFECT OF REACTOR VOLUME

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NAME OF THE STUDENT ABDULHAKEM AHMAD

UNIVERSITY ID NUMBER: 4 3 8 8 0 1 7 8 5

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OBJECTIVE: 1. Study the relationship between reactor volume V and conversion X a for a
reaction taking place in continuous stirred tank reactor.

2. Calculate the reaction rate constant k and draw a curve of V vs Xa.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Continuous stirred tank reactor, Reactor service unit

TEHORY:

The reaction:

NaOH + CH3COOC2H5 → CH3COONa + C2H5OH

Can be considered equi-molar and first order with respect to both sodium hydroxide and ethyl
acetate i.e. second order overall, within the limits of concentration (0.1 M) and temperature ( 20-
40 oC) studied.

The reaction carried out in a continuous stirred tank reactor or Tubular reactor eventually reaches
steady state when a certain amount of conversion of starting reagents has taken place. The
steady-state conditions will vary depending on the concentration of reagents, flow rate, volume
of reactor and temperature of reaction

SETUP DIAGRAM
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PROCEDURE:

1. Make up to 3.0 L batches of 0.1 M NaOH (4 gm of NaOH/1L) and 0.1 M ethyl acetate (9.79
ml/L of solution)

2. Set the agitator speed controller to “7.0”.

3. Using calibration graph for each pump and set pump speed control to 50 ml/min.

4. Set, set point temperature of 35 0C

5. Repeat above steps for different reactor volume V.

OBSERVATION AND CALCULATION:

Volumtric feed rate of NaOH, Fa = 40 ml/min = dm3/sec =0.00066dm^3/s

Volumetric feed rate of CH3COOC2H5, Fb = 40 ml/min = dm3/sec =0.00066dm^3/s

NaOH concentration in feed vessel aµ = 0.1 mol/dm3

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CH3COOC2H5 concentration in feed vessel bµ = 0.1 mol/dm3

Temperature of reactor T = 30 0C =

Speed of stirred S = ‘7.0’

S.No. Reactor volume Conductivity Conversion Specific rate constant

V (dm3) ʌt ( mS ) Xa
k (dm3/mol.sec)

1
125 9.45 0.276 0.0112

2 150 9.35 0.29 0.0103

3 175 9.01 0.338 0.0118

4 200

Formulae required for calculation:

=0.05 mol/ dm^3

=0.05mol/dm^3

=0.0043S

=0.0113S

=0

==0.0043S

=0.0362 MOL/ DM^3

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=0.276 =27.6%

Specific rate constant may be calculated as:

=0.0112
dm^3/mol.s

RESULT AND CONCLUSON:

K=0.0102 dm^3 /mol.s

K= 0.0118 dm^3/mol.s

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0.35 0.34 0.33 0.32 0.31 0.3 0.29 0.28 0.27