Converting Syngas to Ethanol
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A thermodynamic analysis is essential to understanding the equilibrium limits in converting syngas to ethanol. This Demonstration considers these five chemical species: (ethanol),
and
(syngas),
, and
. The feed composition is such that the molar ratio
is 1.
Contributed by: Housam Binous, Mohammad Mozahar Hossain, and Ahmed Bellagi (November 2015)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Let ,
, and
be the mole fractions of
(ethanol),
, and
, respectively. Then the carbon fractions are given by:
(for ethanol),
(for
), and
(for
).
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