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23-Chem-A4 Chemical Reactor Engineering: December 2017

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  1. Question 1 Reversible Hydrodealkylation — Equilibrium Conversion, Adiabatic Rise, Reactor Design
  2. Question 2 Pulse-Tracer Analysis of a River — Tracer Quantity and Reach Volume
  3. Question 3 Packed-Bed Rate Data — Rate, Plug-Flow and Recycle Catalyst Loads
  4. Question 4 Fluidized Bed vs Packed Bed — Pore Diffusion and Catalyst Economy
  5. Question 5 Order and Rate Constant from Total-Pressure Data

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Paper format. Chemical Engineering — 23-Chem-A4 Chemical Reactor Engineering, December 2017. Open-book, 3 hours. Five questions; answering any four constitutes a complete paper (each 25 marks). All five are solved below.

Reference texts. O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd ed. (Wiley, 1999); H. S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, 5th ed. (Pearson, 2016); Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 9th ed.