2. A CSTR and PFR reactors are utilized to process 2 L of feed per second. The feed

contains 41% B, 18% inerts and the remaining component is A. The irreversible gas

phase reaction

A + B C

is to be carried out at 10 atm and 227 C. The Levelspiel plot for the reaction 1 is shown

in Table 1

Table 1

(

. )

0.2 0.0167 0.00488 0.00286 0.00204

X 0 0.1 0.4 0.7 0.9

a) Calculate CTO, CAO, CBO, CIO and FAO

b) Construct a table of

c) Identify the best reactor arrangement if the conversions are X1=10%, X2 =70% and X3

=90% respectively.

i) CSTRPFRCSTR

ii) PFRCSTRPFR