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The document discusses five mass balance problems involving reactive processes and combustion reactions. Problem 1 involves calculating the air feed rate and combustion product composition for the combustion of a natural gas mixture. Problem 2 involves calculating conversion, excess air, and water composition for the combustion of methanol. Problem 3 requires determining the mass percentages of propane and butane in a combustion mixture given the dry product composition. Problem 4 involves calculating excess air for an engine test burning propane and air. Problem 5 involves calculating the wet exhaust composition for the combustion of ethane with excess air.

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Assignment Reactive

The document discusses five mass balance problems involving reactive processes and combustion reactions. Problem 1 involves calculating the air feed rate and combustion product composition for the combustion of a natural gas mixture. Problem 2 involves calculating conversion, excess air, and water composition for the combustion of methanol. Problem 3 requires determining the mass percentages of propane and butane in a combustion mixture given the dry product composition. Problem 4 involves calculating excess air for an engine test burning propane and air. Problem 5 involves calculating the wet exhaust composition for the combustion of ethane with excess air.

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MASS BALANCE

Mass Balance on Reactive Process

Note : BOX your final numerical answers.

Question 1
Acetylene (C2H2) is hydrogenated to form ethane (C2H6). The feed to the reactor contains 1.5 mol H2/mol
C2H2.

(a) Determine the limiting reactant.


(b) Calculate the percentage by which the other reactant is in excess. (Ans: 33.3%)
(c) Calculate the mass feed rate of hydrogen (kg/s) required to produce 4 x 106 metric tons of ethane per
year, assuming the reaction goes to completion and that the process operates for 24 hours a day and
300 days a year. (Ans: 20.6 kg H2/s)

Question 2
Ethylene oxide is produced by the catalytic oxidation of ethylene:

C2H4 + O2 → C2H4O

An undesired competing reaction is the combustion of ethylene:

C2H4 + O2 → CO2 + 2H2O

The feed to the reactor (not the fresh feed to the process) contains 3 moles of ethylene per mole of oxygen.
The single-pass conversion of ethylene in the reactor is 20%, and 80% of ethylene reacted is to produce of
ethylene oxide. A multiple-unit process is used to separate the products: ethylene and oxygen are recycled
to the reactor, ethylene oxide is sold as a product, and carbon dioxide and water are discarded. Based on
100 mol fed to the reactor, calculate the molar flow rates of oxygen and ethylene in the fresh feed, the
overall conversion of ethylene and the overall yield of ethylene oxide based on ethylene fed. (Ans: 15 mol,
15 mol, 100%, 80%)

Question 3
The reaction between ethylene (C2H4) and hydrogen bromide (HBr) to form ethyl bromide (C2H5Br) is carried
out in a continuous reactor. The product stream is analyzed and found to contain 51.7 mole% C 2H5Br and
17.3 mole% HBr. The feed to the reactor contains only ethylene and hydrogen bromide. If the molar flow rate
of the feed stream is 165 mol/s,

(a) Write the stoichiometrically balance equations for the reaction.


(b) Calculate the fractional conversion of the limiting reactant and the percentage by which the other
reactant is in excess. (Ans: 0.749, 19.8%)
(c) Based on part (b), the fractional conversion obtained is less than 100 %. Why do you think the reactor
would be designed to consume less than 100 % reactant? What additional processing steps are likely to
take place outlet stream from the reactor?

Question 4
Propane is converted into propene in a tubular reactor. The following reaction takes place.

C3H8  C3H6 + H2
C3H8 + 2H2  3CH4

The feed is 100% propane. The fractional conversion of propane is 0.75 and the fractional yield of propene is
0.5. Calculate the selectivity of propene to methane production. (0.667)
Question 5
Ethane is chlorinated in a continuous reactor:

C2H6 + Cl2  C2H5Cl + HCl

Some of the product monochloroethane is further chlorinated in and undesired side reaction:

C2H5Cl + Cl2  C2H4Cl2 + HCl

Suppose the conversion of ethane is 13%, selectivity is (13.3 moles C 2H5Cl)/(mole C2H4Cl2); and the product
contains a negligible amount of chlorine. Calculate the fractional yield of monochloroethane and the moles
of all species present in the product stream per 100 moles of monochloroethane produced. (0.87; 100 mol
C2H5Cl, 719.58 mol C2H6, 115.04 mol HCl, 7.52 mol C2H4Cl2 ,827.1 mol C2H6, 115.04 mol Cl2)

Due : 23rd July 2022

Mass Balance on Reactive Process (Combustion)

Question 1
A natural gas contains 92 mole% methane, 5% ethane and 3% propane. If 100 kmol/h of this fuel is to be
burned completely with 25% excess oxygen, what is the required air feed rate? Calculate the molar
composition of the combustion products. (1288.7 kmol/h air; 0.080 mol CO2/mol, 0.151 mol H2O/mol, 0.039
mol O2/mol, 0.730 mol N2/mol)

Question 2
Liquid methanol is fed to a space heater at a rate of 12.0 liters/h and is burned with excess air. The product
gas is analyzed and the following dry-basis mole percentages are determined: CH3OH = 0.45% CO2 = 9.03%
CO = 1.81%.

(a) Draw and label a flowchart and verify that the system has zero degree of freedom
(b) Calculate the fractional conversion of methanol, the percentage excess air fed, and the mol fraction of
water (mol/h) in the product gas. (0.96; 29.1%; 0.178 mol H2O/mol)

Question 3
A mixture of propane and butane is burned with excess air. The combustion products contain the following
composition on a dry basis: 9.7 mole % CO2, 0.5 % CO, 5.9% O2 and the balance N2. What is the mass
percent (i.e. wt%) of propane and butane? (18 wt% C3H8, 82% C4H10)

Question 4
In a motor vehicle engine test, 20 kg of C 3H8 is burned with 400 kg of air to produce 44 kg of CO 2 and 12 kg
of CO. What was the percent of excess air? (28 mol%)

Question 5
Ethane is initially mixed with oxygen to obtain a gas containing 80% C 2H6 and 20% O2 that is then burned in
an engine with 200% excess air. Eighty percent of the ethane goes to CO 2, 10% goes to CO and 10%
remains unburned. Calculate the composition of the exhaust gas on a wet basis. (0.20% C2H6, 14.41% O2,
76.05% N2, 3.32% CO2, 0.41% CO, 5.60% H2O)

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