Citral (C10H16O) is extracted from lemongrass oil and is popular in many consumer products, from dish detergents to ice creams for its pleasant lemon-lime fragrance. Aternatively citral can be made synthetically from butene (C4H8), formaldehyde (CH2O) and oxygen the net reaction is 2C4H8+2CH2O+0.5O2= C10H16O+2H2O A gas stream (1200 gmol/h) containing 35 mol% butene and 65 mol% formaldehyde is mixed with air (79 mol% N2, 21mol%O2) at an 8:3 gas : air molar ratio. The mixture is fed to a recator where the mixture reacts over a catalyst to make citral. The fractional conversion of O2 is 0.9. The reactor operates at steady state . a) calculate the flow rate of all components in the reactor outlet stream. B) calculate the mol% citral in the reactor outlet stream and C) calcute the fractional conversion of butenen and formldehyde Also specify which reactant is limiting
Citral (C10H16O) is extracted from lemongrass oil and is popular in many consumer products, from dish detergents to ice creams for its pleasant lemon-lime fragrance. Aternatively citral can be made synthetically from butene (C4H8), formaldehyde (CH2O) and oxygen the net reaction is
2C4H8+2CH2O+0.5O2= C10H16O+2H2O
A gas stream (1200 gmol/h) containing 35 mol% butene and 65 mol% formaldehyde is mixed with air (79 mol% N2, 21mol%O2) at an 8:3 gas : air molar ratio. The mixture is fed to a recator where the mixture reacts over a catalyst to make citral. The fractional conversion of O2 is 0.9. The reactor operates at steady state . a) calculate the flow rate of all components in the reactor outlet stream. B) calculate the mol% citral in the reactor outlet stream and C) calcute the fractional conversion of butenen and formldehyde Also specify which reactant is limiting
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