Question: PLEASE HELP ME WITH QUESTION a , THE MATERIAL BALANCES Liquid benzene ( which must contain less than SO ppm by weight of water )

PLEASE HELP ME WITH QUESTION a, THE MATERIAL BALANCES
Liquid benzene (which must contain less than SO ppm by weight of water) is fed into a reactor system consisting of two continuous stirred tanks operating in series at 2.4 bar. Gaseous chlorine is fed in parallel to both tanks. Ferric chloride acts as a catalyst, and is produced in situ by the reaction of hydrogen chloride on mild steel. Cooling is required to maintain the operating temperature at 328 K. The hydrogen chloride gas leaving the reactors is first cooled to condense most of the organic impurities. It then passes to an activated carbon adsorber where the final traces of impurity are removed before it leaves the plant for use elsewhere. The crude liquid chlorobenzenes stream leaving the second reactor is washed with water and caustic soda solution to remove all dissolved hydrogen chloride. The product recovery system consists of two distillation columns in series. In the first column (the "benzene column") unreacted benzene is recovered as the top product and recycled. In the second column (the "chlorobenzene column") the mono- and dichlorobenzenes are separated. The recovered benzene from the first column is mixed with the raw benzene feed, and this combined stream is fed to a distillation column (the "drying column") where water is removed as overhead. The benzene stream from the bottom of the drying column is fed to the reaction system.
a. Present a materials balance for the process including an analysis of each reactor stage (the kinetics of the chlorination reactions are given below). Onstream time may be taken as 330 days per year

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