MANIT Bhopal

Department of Chemical Engineering

End- Term Examination, June 2020
Course: B. Tech. Semester: IV
Subject: CH221 Chemical Reaction Engineering-I
Time: 120 minutes Marks: 30
Note: 1 Attempt all questions
2 Write the assumptions, if the question having insufficient data
1 At 650°C phosphine vapor decomposes as follows: 6
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4 PH 3  P4  g   6 H 2 ; - rphos  10hr C phos What size of PFR operating at
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650°C and 11.4 atm is needed for 75% conversion of 10 mol/hr of phosphine in a
2/3 phosphine-1/3 inert feed?
2 A stream of pure gaseous reactant A (CA0=660 mmol/liter) enters a PFR at a flow 6
rate of FA0=540 mmol/min and polymerizes there as follows:
3 A  R, - rA  54C A mmol / liter. min
How large a reactor is needed to lower the concentration of A in the exit stream to
CAf = 330 mmol/liter?
3 For the elementary reactions in series 6
A k1
R k2
S , k1  k 2 ,
at t  0 C A  C A0 , C R 0  C S 0  0
Find the maximum concentration of R and when it is reached.
4 A plug flow reactor (2m3) processes an aqueous feed (100 liter/min) containing 6
reactant A (CA0 = 100 mmol/liter). This reaction is reversible and represented by,
A  R
- rA  (0.04 min 1 )C A  (0.01 min 1 )C R
First find the equilibrium conversion and then find the actual conversion of A in
the reactor.

5 Reactant A ( A  R, C A0  26mol / m 3 ) passes in steady flow through four equal- 6

size mixed flow reactors in series (τtotal = 2 min). When steady state is achieved the
concentration of A is found to be 11, 5, 2, 1 mol/m3 in the four units. For this
reaction, what must be τplug as to reduce CA from CA0 = 26 to CAf = 1 mol/m3?