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P8-2A m)

Load the Polymath problem from the CD-ROM for this exothermic reversible reaction with
a variable coolant temperature.
The elementary reaction

has the following parameter values for the base case


E = 25 kcal/mol
CpA = 20 cal/mol/K
CpB = 20 cal/mol/K
CpC = 20 cal/mol/K
Cpf = 40 cal/mol/K
Cpc = 18 cal/g.K
DelHRX= -20 kcal/mol
k = 0.004 dm6/mol.kg.s
(@ 303K)
Kc = 1000
(@ 310K)
FA0 = 5 mol/s
CT0 = 0.3 mol/dm3
Ta = 320 K
mc = 200 g/s
teta1 = 1
alpha = 0.0002
Ua/rho = 0.5 cal/kg/s/K
Vary the following parameters and write a paragraph describing the trends you find for
each parameter variation and why they work the way they do. Use the base case for
parameters not varied

(a) Variasi FA0 : 1 ≤ FA0 ≤ 8 mol/s


(b) ƟI : 0.5 ≤ ƟI ≤ 4
UA UA
(c) : 0.1 ≤ ≤ 0.8
ρb ρb
(d) T0 : 310 K ≤ T0 ≤ 350 K
(e) Ta : 300 K ≤ T0 ≤ 340 K
(f) mc : 1 ≤ mc ≤ 1000 g/s
(g) repeat (f) for counter current flow

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