Question: A simplified process for making acetaldehyde ( C H 3 CHO ) from ethylene ( C 2 H 4 ) is as follows: 1 0
A simplified process for making acetaldehyde CHO from ethylene is as
follows: kmo of a fresh feed stream containing oxygen and
nitrogen composition on a mol basis enters the process at and This
feed enters a reactor maintained at and bar in which acetaldehyde is produced
according to the following overall reaction.
CHO
Ethylene must be present in excess to avoid forming explosive mixtures so the single pass
molar conversion of ethylene is The stream leaving the reactor enters a scrubber where
it is mixed with kmo of water. All of the water and the acetaldehyde leave the
scrubber in the bottoms stream, and all the remaining components leave as an overhead
stream. mol basis of the overhead stream is purged to prevent accumulation of
nitrogen in the system and the remainder is recycled to the reactor. The bottoms stream
leaving the scrubber is sent to a distillation column where a pure acetaldehyde product stream
is recovered. Acetaldehyde has a boiling point of
Calculate the:
a Flowrate of Ethylene just after exiting the reactor. kmo
b Flowrate of OxygenO just after exiting the reactor. kmo
c Flowrate of Ethylene in recycle stream. kmolsec
d Flowrate of OxygenO in recycle stream. kmolsec
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