ADIABATIC REACTOR

Teacher: Martha Leticia Hernandez Pichardo

Subject: Kinetics and Homogeneous Reactors

Team: 4

Members:
Corts Rodrguez Rodolfo Ivn
Garca Acosta Brenda
Pealver Maldonado Luis Manuel
Soto Rebollar Rodrigo
 ADIABATIC REACTOR
The reactors CSTR, PFR and BATCH could be
an adiabatic reactor. We say that a reactor is
adiabatic when there isnt heat transfer

Adiabatic batch reactor

This tell us that there is no type of energy

exchange
 The adiabatic reactor is not so much a type, more a
way of operation.
An increase in temperature will decrease the
equilibrium extent of an exothermic reaction. Yet to
perform the exothermic reaction adiabatically is to
induce a temperature increase. Similarly, an
endothermic reaction has poorer equilibrium
conversion at a lower temperature, and the
temperature falls if it is allowed to proceed
adiabatically.
Adiabatic operation, involving no heat transfer
equipment within the reactor, is so attractive for its
simplicity that it is worth more careful examination.
ADIABATIC WALL
Inthermodynamics an adiabatic wall is a
wall that does not allow the transfer of
heat from one side to another. An
adiabatic wall does not let out or enter
any heat.
THE ADIABATIC STIRRED TANK
Q=0 in the steady state
0 = + (, )

0 = + (, ), =

And by multiplying the first equation by J and

subtracting it from the second we see inmediately that
= +

References.
extent, moles per unit volumen
holding time of stirred tank
T temperature
THE ADIABATIC TUBULAR OR BATCH
REACTOR
For a batch reactor the very definition of reaction rate
gives the equation

= , , 0 = 0

From an enthalpy balance for the adiabatic operation

= , , 0 = 0

Hence we again have the adiabatic path
= 0 + ()

References.
extent, moles per unit volumen
time
T temperature

=

PARTS OF A
ADIABATIC
REACTOR
APPLICATIONS
Exothermic reactions like:

Manufacture of benzene from the reaction

exothermic between toluene and hydrogen
 Chlorine free radicals used for the substitution
reaction

Manufacturation of epoxyethane from ethene

Reactor ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

DISCONTINUOUS High conversion High operating

REACTOR per unit of costs.
(BATCH) volume.
Moderate
installation costs. Variation in the
Flexibility of quality of the
operation. products.
Vacuum
conditioning.

CONTINUOUS High reaction

REACTOR (PFR, rate.
CSTR) Cheap costs per High installation
unit of product. costs.
Great
homogeneity of
production.
Easily
REFERENCES
http://chempedia.info/page/180062209205194125082201199
162195040214028223245/

https://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Inorganic_Chemistry/Catal
ysis/Examples/Examples_of_Catalysis/5._Examples_of_Oth
er_Catalytic_Reactions_in_Organic_Chemistry

Elementary Chemical Reactor Analysis-

Rutherford Aris