NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING

PETROLEUM, NATURAL GAS AND PETROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING FACULTY

KINETIC QUEMISTRY AND REACTOR DESIGN/PQ 421A

Kinetic Quemistry and Reactor Design Partial Exam

1. The replacement of a complete mixture reactor with one having a volumen two times
as higuer than the last one is being planned. Taking in consideration the same flow
rate speed and the same aqueous feed flow (10 mol of A/L). Estimate the new
conversion. The kinetic of the reaction shows an order of 1.5, and is represented for
the following equation: A R. The actual conversion is 70 percent.

2. The operation of a discontinuous reactor is being planned with the aim of convert A to
R following an aqueous reaction with an stoichiometry as shown: A R . The
reaction speed is shown in the table. Estimate (a). How much time do the reagent A
need to change its concentration from CAo = 1.3 mol/L to CAO = 0.3? . b) Which size the
piston of the flow reactor needs to achieve the 80% convertion of the feedstock (1000
mol A/h) with a concentration of 1.5 mol/L.

CA mol/L 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 1.0 1.3 2.0

0.1 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.25 0.1 0.06 0.05 0.045 0.042
A mol/L.min

3. The reaction 2A B+C, is being planned in one or more RTA connected together.
The flow rate is 3.3 m3/h. B and C are missing from the feedstock and just contain A
with a concentration of 47 kmol/m3. Taking in consideration that the flow rate
constant is 2x10-4 m3/kmol.s, and the balance constant is equal to 16. Estimate a) The
reactor volumen needed if the final concentrations of B and C happens to be equal to
the 85% of the balance ones. b) The number of RTA in set needed for the convertion
taking in consideration that the reactors avaliables posses a volumen equal to 10% of
the total capacity from the only reactor.

4. The acetylene pyrolitic polymerization in gaseous phase is adjusted to a kinetic

equaution of second order with a kinetic reaction of k=0.153 dm3/mol-1 at the
temperature of 550°C. The feedstock consists of 80% of acetylene and the rest is full of
inerts reagents with a flow rate of 1000 m3/h at 20 atm and 550°C. Two systems are
available for the reaction: one with five furnaces with the same characteristics
containing fourty seven tubes and each one with 5cm of inner diameter and 3.5cm of
length; the other is a complete mixture reactor with a global volumen equal to the last
one; both systems are isotermic and you could suppose a drop of pressure
meaningless. Estimate the convertion and the production of the tetramer complex
(kg/dia) in both systems.