Chapter 12: Steady-State Nonisothermal Reactor Design: Flow Reactors with Heat Exchange

Derivation

From the CSTR mole balance

we have

Differentiating

Rearranging

For zero order reaction

For a first order reaction

Let’s return to the case of a zero order reaction
At the point of tangency T*

Q.E.D.

 

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