Chemical Engineering Department

Course name: Chemical Reaction Engineering

Course number: CME 331
Instructor: Ioannis Zuburtikudis

Homework #1

1) A human being (75-Kg) consumes about 6000 kJ of food per day. Assume that
the food is all glucose and that the overall reaction is:

C6 H12 O6  6O2  6CO2  6H2 O -r = 2816 kJ

Find a man’s metabolic rate (the rate of living, laughing, ...) in terms of moles of
oxygen used per m3 of person per second.

2) For the reaction stoichiometry, A  R , and the following tabulated data, is it

reasonable to represent the rate - concentration relationship by an n-th order
kinetic expression? If so, find the reaction order.

CA 42 51 110 170
rA 26 30 56 80

3) In a homogeneous isothermal liquid polymerization, 20 % of the monomer

disappears in 34 min for initial monomer concentration of 0.04 and also for 0.8
mol/liter. What is the rate of disappearance of the monomer?

4) On doubling the concentration of reactant, the rate of reaction

triples. Find the reaction order.

5) At 610 K and 1 atm, an elementary reversible gas phase reaction is reported to

proceed as follows:

2A  B  rA  k1 PA2  k 2 PB
mol k
with k1  10 3. 2
and K P  1  0.5.atm 1
lit .atm .hr k2
Convert this rate expression into concentration units.