A. Has altogether three streams either entering or leaving
B. Processes three reactants at different flow rates
C. Processes three reactants with same flow rate
D. Employs all the three phases (i.e. solid, liquid and gas)
Related Mcqs:
- The following gas phase reaction is taking place in a plug flow reactor. A stoichiometric mixture of A and B at 300 K is fed to the reactor. At 1 m along the length of the reactor, the temperature is 360 K. The pressure drop is negligible and an ideal gas behaviour can be assumed. Identify the correct expression relating the concentration of A at the inlet (CA0), concentration of A at 1m (CA) and the corresponding conversion of A (X) ?
A. CA = 1.2 CA0 (1 – X)/(1 – 0.33X)
B. CA = 1.2 CA0 (1 – X)/(1 – 0.5X)
C. CA = 0.83 CA0 (1 – X)/(1 – 0.33X)
D. CA = 0.83 CA0 (1 – X)/(1 – 0.5X) - The gas phase reaction 2A ⇌ B is carried out in an isothermal plug flow reactor. The feed consists of 80 mole % A and 20 mole % inerts. If the conversion of A at the reactor exit is 50%, then CA/CA0 at the outlet of the reactor is _______________________?
A. 2/3
B. 5/8
C. 1/3
D. 3/8 - In case of a _____________ reactor, the composition in the reactor and at the exit of the reactor is the same ?
A. Semi-batch
B. Tubular
C. Batch
D. Back-mix - Pure ethanol vapor is fed to a reactor packed with alumina catalyst, at the rate of 100 kmole / hr. The reactor products comprise: ethylene: 95 kmole / hr, water vapour: 97.5 k mole / hr and diethyl ether: 2.5 kmole/hr. The reactions occuring can be represented by: C2H5OH → C2H4 + H2O 2C2H5OH → C2H5 – O – C2H5 + H2O The percent conversion of ethanol in the reactor is________________?
A. 100
B. 97.5
C. 95
D. 2.5 - For a packed bed reactor; the presence of a long tail in the residence time distribution curve is an indication of ?
A. Ideal plug flow
B. Bypass
C. Dead zone
D. Channelling - Fluidised bed reactor is characterized by____________________?
A. Uniformity of temperature
B. Comparatively smaller equipment
C. Very small pressure drop
D. Absence of continuous catalyst regeneration facility - For high conversion in a highly exothermic solid catalysed reaction, use a ______________ bed reactor?
A. Fixed
B. Fluidised bed reactor followed by a fixed
C. Fixed bed reactor followed by a fluidised
D. Fluidised - A liquid phase reaction is to be carried out under isothermal conditions. The reaction rate as a function of conversion has been determined experimentally and is shown in the figure given below. What choice of reactor or combination of reactors will require the minimum overall reactor volume, if a conversion of 0.9 is desired ?
A. CSTR followed by a PFR
B. PFR followed by a CSTR
C. CSTR followed by a PFR followed by a CSTR
D. PFR followed by a CSTR followed by a PFR - With increase in the order of reaction (for all positive reaction orders), the ratio of the volume of mixed reactor to the volume of plug flow reactor (for identical feed composition, flow rate and conversion)?
A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remain same
D. Increases linearly - Second order consecutive irreversible reaction as shown in the bellow figure, were carried out in a constant volume isothermal batch reactor with different initial feed compositions. Reactor temperature was same in all the cases. In experiments where the ratio of concentration of B to that of A in the initial feed was less than 0.5, the concentration of B increased first, reached a maximum and then declined with time. However, for all experiments where this concentration ratio was 0.5 or above, concentration of B decreased monotonically with time right from the beginning. What is the ratio of the two rate constants (k1/k2) ?
A. 1/4
B. 1/2
C. 2
D. 4
