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

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Example CD12-1

  Heat Capacities Expressed as Quadratic Functions of Temperature

N2 + 3H22NH3

 
       
    The heat capacities are found in Perry's Handbook. The units are cal/molK for C p and K for T.  
       
   

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(CDE8-1.1)


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(CDE8-1.3)
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    Then, substitute to obtain  
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