A new engineering graduate was putin charge of a reactor. The engineer quickly learned that the process called for the reaction of ethylene and hydrogen bromide to form ethyl bromide (C2H5Br). After combining the two reactants, the product stream was analyzed and found to contain 50 mol % C2H5Br, 20 mol % HBr and the remainder ethylene. The overall feed rate to the reactor was 165 mol/s (note: the feed to the reactor only contained ethylene and hydrogen bromide). The engineer must product a report. You must help them: a. Write the balanced equation. b. Draw a schematic of the process. c. Calculate how many moles of ethylene and hydrogen bromide are fed into the reactor. d. What is the percent conversion of the limiting reactant? Please answer b, c, and d.
A new engineering graduate was putin charge of a reactor. The engineer quickly learned that the process called for the reaction of ethylene and hydrogen bromide to form ethyl bromide (C2H5Br). After combining the two reactants, the product stream was analyzed and found to contain 50 mol % C2H5Br, 20 mol % HBr and the remainder ethylene. The overall feed rate to the reactor was 165 mol/s (note: the feed to the reactor only contained ethylene and hydrogen bromide). The engineer must product a report. You must help them:
a. Write the balanced equation.
b. Draw a schematic of the process.
c. Calculate how many moles of ethylene and hydrogen bromide are fed into the reactor.
d. What is the percent conversion of the limiting reactant?
Please answer b, c, and d.
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