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Title : Assignment No-3 Date: 06/04/2023

Academic Year : 2022-23
Semester : VI
Subject Name : CRE-II
Class : B. Tech. Chemical Engineering/ Technology
Last date of Submission : 18/04/2022

Que 1) Aqueous acetone (CB0 = 1000 mol/m31, vl = 10-4 m31/s) and hydrogen (1 atm, vg = 0.04 m3 g/s, HA
= 36845 Pa.m3 l/mol) are fed to the bottom of a long, slender column (5-m high, 0.1-m2 cross section)
packed with porous Raney nickel catalyst (dp = 5 ×10-3 m cat, ρs = 4500 kg/m3 cat, fs = 0.6, De= 8 × 10-10
m3 l/m cat. s) and kept at 14⁰C. At these conditions acetone is hydrogenated to propanol according to the
reaction

with rate given by

What will be the conversion of acetone in this unit?

Additional Data
The mass transfer rate constants are estimated to be

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Que 2) Hydrogen gas is bubbled into an agitated tank (V, = 2 m3r) containing liquid butynediol (CB0=
2500 mol/m31) plus a dilute suspension of palladium-impregnated porous catalyst pellets (dp = 5 X 10-5 m
cat, ρs = 1450 kg/m3 cat, De= 5 X 10-10m3 l/m cat .s, fs = 0.0055). Hydrogen dissolves in the liquid ( HA
= 148000 Pa.m3 l/mol) and reacts with the butynediol on the catalyst surface as
follows:

and at 35°C

Unused hydrogen is recompressed and recirculated, and the whole operation takes place at 1.46 atm and
35°C. Find out how long it will take for 90% conversion of reactant.
Additional Data
The mass transfer rates are given as

Que 3) Predict the conversion of glucose to sorbitol in a stirred slurry reactor using pure hydrogen gas at
200 atm. and 150ºC. The catalyst used is porous Raney nickel, and under these conditions, the reaction
proceeds as follows

Data:
Gas stream: vg = 0.2 m3/s, HA= 277 600 Pa. m3/mol
Liquid stream: vl = 0.01 m3/s, CB0 = 2000 mol/m3
Reactor: Vr = 2 m3, fs = 0.056
Catalyst: dp = 10 μm, ρs = 8900 kg/m3, De= 2 ×10-9 m3/m cat.s
Kinetics: (kAgai)g+l = 0.05 s-1, kAc= 10-4 m/s

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Que 4) Aniline is to be hydrogenated in a three-phase fluidized bed of porous clay particles

impregnated with nickel catalyst. The well-agitated batch of liquid is kept at 130ºC by
heat exchanger tubes passing through the fluidized bed, and by bubbling hydrogen
vigorously and at a high rate through the bed at 1 atm. According to Govindrao and
Murthy, at these conditions reaction proceeds as follows:

Find the time needed for 90% conversion of this batch of aniline.
Data:
Gas stream: pure H2 at 1atm, HA= 28 500 Pa. m3/mol
Batch of liquid: CB0 = 1097 mol/m3
Reactor: fg = 0.10, fl= 0.65, fs = 0.25
Catalyst: dp = 300 μm, ρs = 750 kg/m3, De= 8.35 × 10-10 m3/m cat.s
Kinetics: (kAgai)g+l = 0.04 s-1, kAc= 10-5 m/s
Assume that the fraction of NH, in the gas stream is very small at any time.

Que 5) Trickle bed oxidation. Dilute aqueous ethanol (about 2-3%) is oxidized to acetic acid by the
action of pure oxygen at 10atm in a trickle bed reactor packed with palladium-alumina catalyst pellets and
kept at 30°C. According to the reaction proceeds as follows:

with rate
Find the fractional conversion of ethanol to acetic acid if gas and liquid are fed to the top of a reactor in
the following system:
Gas stream: vg = 0.01 m3/s, HA = 86 000 Pa.m3/mol
Liquid stream: vl = 2 × 10-4 m3/s, CB0= 400 mol/m3
Reactor: 5 m high, 0.1 m2 cross section, fs = 0.58
Catalyst: dp = 5 mm, ρs = 1800 kg/m3, De= 4.16 × 10-10 m3/m cat.s
Kinetics: kAgai = 2 × 10-4 mol/m3•Pa•s, kAgai = 0.02 s-1, kAc= 3.86 × 10-4 m/s

Que 6) Write the performance equations for reactors used for gas-liquid reactions on solid
catalysts for the following cases:
i) For reactant liquid B used in excess for plug flow of gas A and any flow of liquid B &
ii) For reactant gas A used in excess for plug flow of liquid B and any flow of gas A.

Que 7) Discuss in brief factors to be considered in selecting a contactors for G/L Reactions on Solid
Catalysts.

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