California Professional Engineers

It is now proposed that a second plant be built to process 5500 gal/h of metaxylene at the same temperature and pressure as described above. What size reactor (i.e., what volume of catalyst) is requited if conversion in the new plant is to be 46% instead of 37% Justify any assumptions made for the scale-up calculation. (Ans, 2931 ft of catalyst.) (From California Professional Engineers Exam.)... 

California Professional Engineers Exam Problem in which the reaction... 

A batch reactor is used for the brominationof p-chlorophei rl isopropyl ether. Calculate the batch reaction time. [2nd Ed P4-29] California Professional Engineers Exam Problem in which the reaction... 

Note ppm = parts of bromine per million parts of brominated water by weight. In dilute aqueous solutions, 1 ppm = 1 milligram per liter.) (California Professional Engineers Exam)... 

No gaseous products were formed by the chemical reaction. What would you conclude about the relative importance of liquid-phase diffusion and about the order of the kinetics of this reaction (California Professional Engineers Exam)... 

In this section, you will solve the equations for an isothermal plug flow reactor. The first problem is very simple, and is patterned after a problem on the California Professional Engineers License Examination, according to Fogler (2005). Here it is modified. You take a reactor in which components A and C are fed in equimolar amounts, and the following reaction takes place ... 

In most systems, the work term, IF, can be neglected (note the excq>-tion in the California Professional Engineers Exam Problem PI2-6b at the end of Chapter 12). Neglecting Wt, the energy balance becomes... 

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