Chapter 6: Isothermal Reactor Design: Molar Flow Rates

Selectivity and Yield:

  Instantaneous Overall
Selectivity
Yield
Example: desired product , rD=k1CA2CB
undesired product , rU=k2CACB2

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To keep the selectivity of the desired products high with respect to the undesired products carry out the reaction at high concentrations of A and low concentrations of B. If the reactor is liquid phase, a high selectivity can easily be achieved using a semibatch reactor in which B is few slowly to A.

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