The feed to the reactor (not the fresh feed to the process) contains 3 moles of ethylene per mole of oxygen. The single-pass conversion of ethylene is 20% and for every 100 mol of ethylene consumed in the reactor, 90 moles of ethylene oxide emerges in the product stream exiting the reactor. A separator is used to separate the reactor products.
Ethylene oxide is produced by the catalytic oxidation of ethylene:
2C2H4 + O2 → 2C2H4O
An undesired competing reaction also occurs during this process
C2H4 + 3O2 → 2CO2 + 2H2O
The feed to the reactor (not the fresh feed to the process) contains 3 moles of ethylene per mole of oxygen. The single-pass conversion of ethylene is 20% and for every 100 mol of ethylene consumed in the reactor, 90 moles of ethylene oxide emerges in the product stream exiting the reactor. A separator is used to separate the reactor products. Three streams emerge from the separator- one stream contains ethylene and oxygen, which are recycled; another stream contains ethylene oxide, which is sold as product, and the third stream contains carbon dioxide and water
Choosing 100 mol/ h fed to the reactor as the basis comple the following
a. sketch the process
b. calculate the amount of CO2 that exits the reactor
c. determine the amount of water that exits the reactor
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