Consider a first-order irreversible reaction that occurs in a packed bed reactor where CA has units...

 

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Consider a first-order irreversible reaction that occurs in a packed bed reactor where CA has units of mol/m. At a point in the reactor, the following conditions exist: Superficial mass flow rate Diameter of spherical catalyst pellets 0.30 kg/ms Intrinsic rate constant k (based on catalyst solid volume) 20s- Catalyst pellet density Molecular mass of A and B Molecular mass of inert 0.01 m 2000 kg/m 50 32 80% 12% Mole percent of inert Mole percent of A Total pressure Temperature Schmidt number of the gas Viscosity of the gas Effective diffusion coefficient in the catalyst Porosity of the bed 100 kPa 400 K 1.0 3.0 x 10-5 Pas 1.0 10 6 m/s 0.36 Compute the observed reaction rate at these conditions and express the result in terms of moles reacted per second per cubic meter of reactor volume. Consider a first-order irreversible reaction that occurs in a packed bed reactor where CA has units of mol/m. At a point in the reactor, the following conditions exist: Superficial mass flow rate Diameter of spherical catalyst pellets 0.30 kg/ms Intrinsic rate constant k (based on catalyst solid volume) 20s- Catalyst pellet density Molecular mass of A and B Molecular mass of inert 0.01 m 2000 kg/m 50 32 80% 12% Mole percent of inert Mole percent of A Total pressure Temperature Schmidt number of the gas Viscosity of the gas Effective diffusion coefficient in the catalyst Porosity of the bed 100 kPa 400 K 1.0 3.0 x 10-5 Pas 1.0 10 6 m/s 0.36 Compute the observed reaction rate at these conditions and express the result in terms of moles reacted per second per cubic meter of reactor volume.