Question: Engineers Milo and Christine operate a reactor producing a polymer ( PM ) by the following balanced, reversible chemical reaction: 2 A + 1 B

Engineers Milo and Christine operate a reactor producing a polymer (PM) by the following balanced, reversible chemical reaction: 2A+1B1PM+4W. A and B are secret building block components and W is water (H2O). The feed to the reactor is 338molhr with 0.552 mole fraction of A and the remaining B. The reaction does not go to completion in the reactor, but the exiting components are in chemical reaction equilibrium. The stream exiting the reactor contains a mole fraction of polymer of 0.147.
Determine the component flow rates (molhr) of all components exiting the reactor.
 Engineers Milo and Christine operate a reactor producing a polymer (PM)

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