Reactor Design for Complex Configurations

Sulfur trioxide, which is used to make sulfuric acid, is produced by catalytic oxidation of sulfur dioxide in air with vanadium pentoxide catalyst particles at 1.2 atm and a temperature 

The following example illustrates how a cold-shot reactor is designed to maximize conversion while satisfying stability margins. 

Ammonia is synthesized in a reversible reaction, whose rate is correlated by the Tempkin equation (Tempkin and Pyzev, 1940), expressed in terms of the partial pressures, in atmospheres, of the reacting species  

To maximize the conversion in the reactor, the following nonlinear program (NLP), of the type discussed in Chapter 18, is formulated  

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