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Chapter 11: Nonisothermal Reactor Design: The Steady State Energy Balance and Adiabatic PFR Applications

Adiabatic Liquid Phase in A CSTR

    Second Order Reaction Carried Out Adiabatically in a CSTR  
       
    The acid-catalyzed irreversible liquid-phase reaction  
       
   

 
       
   

is carried out adiabatically in a CSTR.  


 
Chapter 11 Figure: DVD E11-2  

The reaction is second order in A. The feed, which is equimolar in a solvent (which contains the catalyst) and A, enters the reactor at a total volumetric flow rate of 10 dm 3 /min with the concentration of A being 4M. The entering temperature is 300 K.

(a) What CSTR reactor volume is necessary to achieve 80% conversion?

(b) What conversion can be achieved in a 1000 dm 3 CSTR? What is the new exit temperature?

(c) How would your answers to part (b) change, if the entering temperature of the feed were 280 K?  

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