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Maximizing an Intermediate Reactant in a Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactor

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This Demonstration determines the temperature that maximizes the exit concentration of the intermediate product in the reaction taking place in an isothermal continuous stirred-tank reactor; the concentration of species exiting the reactor is

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, with

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, and

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where and are the reaction rates, and are the activation energies for the two reactions (with ), is the reactor temperature, and is the reactor residence time.

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Contributed by: Clay Gruesbeck (November 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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[1] L. D. Schmidt, The Engineering of Chemical Reactions, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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