Question: please send deatiled explanation for question number ( c,d,e) with MatLab code and graphs and send word document to dvramanaiah98@gmail.com 3. Ethyl acetate is an

 please send deatiled explanation for question number ( c,d,e) with MatLab

please send deatiled explanation for question number ( c,d,e) with MatLab code and graphs and send word document to dvramanaiah98@gmail.com

3. Ethyl acetate is an extensively used solvent and can be formed by the vapor-phase esterification of aceticacid and ethanol. O II II CH,-C-OOH + CH CH OH CH, -C -OCH,CH+H,0 The reaction was studied using a microporous resin as a catalyst in a packed-bed microreactor (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 26 (2), 198 (1987)]. The reaction is first order in ethanol and pseudo zeroth order in acetic acid. The total volumetric feed rate is 25 dm3/min, the initial pressure is 10 atm, the temperature 223 C, and the pressure drop parameter, a, is 0.01 kg!. For an equimolar feed rate of acetic acid andethanol, the specific reaction rate is roughly 1.3 dm/(kgcat min). a. Calculate the maximum weight of catalyst that one could use and maintain an exit pressure above 1 atm. b. Write out the CRE algorithm and then solve these equations analytically to determine the catalystweight necessary to achieve 90% conversion. c. Write a MATLAB program to plot and analyze conversion (X), pressure ratio (p =P/Po) volumetric flowrates (v/vo) as a function of catalyst weight down the packed-bed reactor. d. Neglecting pressure drop, re-analyze X as a function of catalyst weight down the packed-bedreactor. How does this result compare with part c.? e. How would the conversion from part c. be affected if we pack the catalyst in a longer reactorwith half the pipe diameter

Step by Step Solution

There are 3 Steps involved in it

1 Expert Approved Answer
Step: 1 Unlock blur-text-image
Question Has Been Solved by an Expert!

Get step-by-step solutions from verified subject matter experts

Step: 2 Unlock
Step: 3 Unlock

Students Have Also Explored These Related Chemical Engineering Questions!