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CHE 254 1 Homework 10 - Chapter 4
CHE 254 1 Homework 10 - Chapter 4
Homework 10 – Chapter 4
4.40
Ammonia is burned to form nitric oxide in the following reaction:
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Tom Bertalan, Chris Barnes, Yang He, James Robinson CHE@TomBertalan.com
CHE 254 2
Homework 10 – Chapter 4
4.43
In the Deacon process for the manufacture of chlorine, and react to form and . Sufficient air (21 mol%
, 79% ) is fed to provide 35% excess oxygen and the fractional conversion of is 85%.
a) Calculate the mole fractions of the product stream components, using atomic species balances in your
calculation.
b) Again calculate the mole fractions of the product stream components, only this time use the extent of reaction
in the calculation.
c) An alternative to using air as the oxygen source would be to feed pure oxygen to the reactor. Running with
oxygen imposes a significant extra process cost relative to running with air, but also offers the potential for
considerable savings. Speculate on what the cost and savings might be. What would determine which way the
process should be run?
Tom Bertalan, Chris Barnes, Yang He, James Robinson CHE@TomBertalan.com