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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TIRUCHY-620 015

B. TECH-CHEMICAL ENGG, FINAL ASSESMENT


SUBJECT: CLPC 21 CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING -I

Answer all the Questions

Time: 70 minutes Max marks: 30


Date: 04/12/2021

1. After 8 minutes in a batch reactor, reactant (CAO = 1 mol/liter) is 80% converted;


after 18 minutes, conversion is 90%. Find a rate equation to represent this
reaction.
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2. Given a gaseous feed, CAO = CBO = 100, A + 2B R, CB = 20. Find XA, XB, CA
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3. Derive the design equation for Mixed flow reactor (MFR)
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4. Describe space time, space velocity and mean residence time. Also state difference
between space time and mean residence time
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5. Can we use continuous small-scale lab size reactor for finding kinetics of a
chemical reaction?
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6. A first-order liquid-phase reaction, 92% conversion, is taking place in a mixed flow
reactor of equal volume connected n series. Find the value of space time to
achieve this conversion.
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7. Substance A in the liquid phase produces R and S by the following reactions:

A feed (CA0 = 1, CR0 = 0, CS0 = 0.3) enters two mixed flow reactors in series, ( 1 = 2.5
min, 2= 10 min). Knowing the composition in the first reactor (CA1 = 0.4, CR1 = 0.2,
CS1 = 0.7), find the composition leaving the second reactor.
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8. What is Vont Hoff equation and suggest in what way it is different from Arrhenius,
Collision theory, and transition state theory equation
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9. What are dispersion number and intensity of dispersion ? State their


importance in modeling using tracer information
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