NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY

Department of Chemical Engineering

CHE 441 Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Engineering

Quiz 4 Closed Book/Notes

Build a stoichiometric table showing the concentrations of all effluent species of a gas-
phase flow reactor for the reaction stoichiometry 2A + B C + D. The reactor will be
fed with equimolar quantities of the two reactants, with 50 mole% of an inert component.

SOLUTION
specie In Change Out Concentration out (Fi/)
A FA0 -X FA0 FA0 (1-X)
C A = C A0
(1 X )
(1 18 X )
B B FA0 -X (b/a) FA0 FA0 [B (b/a)X]
C B = C A0
(1 12 X )
= -X (1/2) FA0 FA0 (1 - 0.5 X) (1 18 X )
C + X (c/a) FA0 FA0 (c/a) X (1 X )
CC = C A 0 2 1
= +X (1/2) FA0 0.5 FA0 X
(1 8 X )
D + X (d/a) FA0 FA0 (d/a) X (1 X )
C D = C A0 2 1
= +X (1/2) FA0 0.5 FA0 X
(1 8 X )
I I FA0 FA0 I 2
C I = C A0
2FA0 (1 18 X )
total FT0 = FA0 (1 + B + I) FT = FT0 + FA0X
FT0 = 4FA0 FT = FA0 (4 -0.5X)
Stoichiometry assumes constant pressure and temperature:
y A0 = y B 0 y I 0 = 0.5 y A0 + y B 0 + y I 0 = 1
B = 1; I = 2
y A0 = 0.25
= y A = ( 14 )( 12 + 12 12 1) = 18
= o (1 + X ) = o (1 18 X )
C A0 = FA0 0
FA FA0 (1 X ) (1 X )
e.g., for A CA = = = C
o (1 18 X ) (1 18 X )
A 0

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