Question: 1. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) can react with O2 to form sulfur trioxide (SO3). A gas stream having the composition (in mole percentage) shown in the

 1. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) can react with O2 to form sulfur

1. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) can react with O2 to form sulfur trioxide (SO3). A gas stream having the composition (in mole percentage) shown in the figure below is to be passed through a two-stage converter to produce SO3. The single-pass fractional conversions of SO2 to SO3 are 0.80 in stage 1 , and 0.50 in stage 2, respectively. To boost the overall fractional conversion of SO2 to 0.98, part of the exiting gas from stage 2 is recycled back to the inlet of stage 1 . Calculate the molar ratio of stream 6 to stream 1

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