REACTORES QUIMICOS

A) At extreme pressures, liquid-phase reactions exhibit pressure effects. A suggested means for correlation is the activation
volume, Vact: Thus,

Di-t-butyl peroxide is a commonly used free-radical initiator that decomposes according to first-order kinetics. Use the following
data2 to estimate Vact for the decomposition in toluene at 120C:



1) A reaction takes 1 h to complete at 60C and 50 min at 65|C. Estimate the activation energy. What assumptions were
necessary for your estimate?

2) Dilute acetic acid is to be made by the hydrolysis of acetic anhydride at 25C. Pseudo-first-order rate constants are available
at 10C and 40C. They are k= 3.40 h
-1
and 22.8 h
-1
, respectively. Estimate k
at 25C.

3) The reaction is occurring in an isothermal, piston flow reactor that has a mean residence time of 2 min.
Assume constant cross section and physical properties and



(a) Find the operating temperature that maximizes C
Bout
given C
Bin
=0.
(b) The laboratory data were confused: kI was interchanged with kII Revise your answer accordingly.

4) Consider the consecutive reactions, , with rate constants of

Find the temperature that maximizes C
Bout
for a CSTR with and for a batch reactor with a reaction time of 2 h. Assume
constant density with C
Bin
= C
Cin
= 0. The rate constants are:






5) Fed-batch production of cheese starter culture





6) Batch and continuous biomass production