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

Additional Homework Problems

Equations to use in Polymath

 

Isothermal Operation

1B = 2M1B

2B = 2M2B

M = MeOH

f = Ci/CTo

X = Z/U

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initial values: X0 = 0.0, , , ,

Final value: Xf = 1.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-Isothermal Operation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

= - 41.708 ´ 103

= - 30.981 ´ 103

= - 10.727 ´ 103

 

Initial values: X0 = 0.0, , , , ; T = T0

Final value: Xf = 1.0