Question: Please solve it with a Matlab code: Pure butanol is to be fed into a semi-batch reactor containing pure ethyl acetate to produce butyl acetate

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Pure butanol is to be fed into a semi-batch reactor containing pure ethyl acetate to produce butyl acetate and ethanol: CH3COOC2H5 +C4H9OH CH3COOC4H9 +C2H5OH represented symbolically as: A+ BC +D. All species are liquids and the reaction occurs in the liquid phase. The reaction is elementary, reversible, and carried out isothermally at 300 K. At this temperature, the equilibrium constant is 1.08 and the specific reaction rate is 9 x 105 Lmol-1s-1. Initially, the reactor contains 200 L of ethyl acetate. Butanol is fed at a volumetric rate of 0.05 L/s. The feed and initial concentrations of butanol and ethyl acetate are 10.93 mol/L and 7.72 mol/L, respectively. a) Determine and plot the equilibrium conversion as a function of reaction time.

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