Additional Homework Problems

CDP11-DB

  The elementary second-order reaction
     
   

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takes place inside a catalyst monolith at 400 K and 101.3 kPa.

(a) Calculate the conversion in a monolith that is 0.3 m high, 0.3 m wide, and 1.0 m in length. The spacing between the 0.1-cm-thick plates is 0.5 cm. The molar feed rate is pure A at 30.5 mol/s.
(b)
How would your answer change if the reaction

     
   

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    were carried out under identical conditions?
     
    Additional information:
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[2nd Ed. P10-14]