Exam 2

(30 pts) 1. You have been requested to troubleshoot problems with a well stirred reactor in your Texas chemical production plant. After taking the red eye flight and a long taxi ride to your hotel and then the plant your arrive exhausted, but eager to solve this problem. Apparently the problem with this 165 L reactor is that the conversion of the reactant, Anychemical, is too low at XA = 0.53. This reactor is heated using steam and you measure the temperature of the liquid inside the reactor at 130°C. The initial concentration of Anychemical, A, is 10 mol A/L. The total flowrate of the liquid into the reactor is 5 L/min. You ask for reaction rate data, and are given the following table and graph from a 1 L batch reactor conducted at a temperature of 130°C.