Optimal Temperature Policy for First-Order Reversible Reactions
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Consider the first-order reversible reaction involving chemical species and
:
.
The reaction rate for
is given by:
, where
is the fraction of
converted,
and
are the reaction rate constants, and
and
are the initial concentrations of species
and
with
.
Contributed by: Housam Binous and Ahmed Bellagi (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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C. D. Fournier and F. R. Groves, "Rapid Method for Calculating Reactor Temperature Profiles," Chem. Eng., 77(3), 1970 p. 121.
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