A ---> B+D  first order gas phase reaction is carried out in a packed bed reactor at 8 atm pressure and 390 K temperature. The volumetric feed rate is 12 lt/s. The feed contains 40% A and 60% inert. The packed bed reactor is filled with spherical porous catalyst pellets. The actual reaction rate is given as -rA = kCA(mol/kg catalyst.min). The pressure drop parameter (α) was found to be 1.5*10-3 kg-1 . Accordingly, calculate the amount of catalyst (kg) required to achieve 85% conversion from the reactor and the pressure at the reactor outlet. k(300) =0.0075 L/ kg.catalyst.min , Ea=15000 cal/mol

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A ---> B+D  first order gas phase reaction is carried out in a packed bed reactor at 8 atm pressure and 390 K temperature. The volumetric feed rate is 12 lt/s. The feed contains 40% A and 60% inert. The packed bed reactor is filled with spherical porous catalyst pellets. The actual reaction rate is given as -rA = kCA(mol/kg catalyst.min). The pressure drop parameter (α) was found to be 1.5*10-3 kg-1 . Accordingly, calculate the amount of catalyst (kg) required to achieve 85% conversion from the reactor and the pressure at the reactor outlet.

k(300) =0.0075 L/ kg.catalyst.min , Ea=15000 cal/mol

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