1.

The gas mixture, which consists of 40% A, 40% B, and 30% inert materials, at 10 atm,
enters the reactor with a flow rate of 0.5 m 3/s at 140 oC. Calculate the entering concentration and
entering molar flow rate of A.
2. For the liquid-phase reaction 3A + B 3C + D, the original solution consists of 10 M of
A and 2 M of B. What is the concentration of C when the conversion of the limiting reactant is
75%?
3. The gas-phase reaction 2A + 4B 2C is first order, both in A and in B. The reaction is to
be carried out in a plug-flow reactor. The entering volumetric flowrate is 0.30 m3/min. The feed
is equimolar in A and B. What is the fractional change in volume?
4. For the reaction 3A + 2B products, the specific reaction rate of reaction with respect to
B at 77 oC and 10 atm is 0.4 m 3/ gmol-min and the activation energy is 15,000 cal/gmol. What is
the specific reaction rate with respect to A at 1300 oC?
5. Gaseous reactant A decomposes according to the reaction
A 3R (-rA = 0.05 kCA2)

in a 1.5 m3 CSTR. Find the conversion of A in a 70%-A-30%-inert feed if the volumetric

flowrate of the feed is 170 liter/min and the feed concentration of A is 300 mmol/liter.
6. A gaseous phase reaction A + 2B 4R is implemented in a reactor at 1000 K and 2 atm.
If the feed enters the reactor with 5 M of A and 10 M of B and the product stream exits at 400 K
and 4 atm, with CA = 1.7 M, determine XA, CB and CR at the exit stream.
7. An aqueous solution of ethyl acetate (A) with a concentration of 0.3 M and flowing at 0.5
liters/s mixes with an aqueous solution of NaOH (B) with a concentration of 0.45 M and flowing
at 1 liter/s. The combined stream enters a reaction system for saponification to occur at 16 oC, at
which temperature the rate constant, kA, is 0.0574 liter/mol-s. If the reaction system is made up
of two equal-sized CSTRs in series, what is the volume of each reactor to achieve a final
conversion of 80%?
8. Liquid A decomposes by third-order kinetics to produce products in a batch reactor. After
15 minutes of reaction, 50% of A is converted. How much longer would it take to reach 75%
conversion?
9. The irreversible gas-phase reaction A + 2B products was carried out isothermally in a
plug-flow reactor. The feed is at a temperature of 227 oC, a pressure of 1013 kPa, and a feed
composition of 40% A and 60% B. At this condition, the following data were determined:
-rA (mol/m3-s) 1 x 10-7 5 x 10-8 2 x 10-8 1 x 10-8
XA 0 0.2 0.4 0.6

What is the volume of the plug-flow reactor to achieve 30% conversion of A for an
entering volumetric flowrate of 2 m3/min?

R = 1.987 cal/gmol-K