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This document contains instructions for homework assignment 1 for the Chemical Reaction Engineering course. It includes 5 problems related to reaction rates and kinetics: 1) calculating metabolic rate based on glucose consumption, 2) determining reaction order from rate vs concentration data, 3) finding monomer disappearance rate from extent of reaction over time at different concentrations, 4) determining reaction order based on how rate changes with concentration, and 5) converting a rate expression from partial pressure to molar concentration units.

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This document contains instructions for homework assignment 1 for the Chemical Reaction Engineering course. It includes 5 problems related to reaction rates and kinetics: 1) calculating metabolic rate based on glucose consumption, 2) determining reaction order from rate vs concentration data, 3) finding monomer disappearance rate from extent of reaction over time at different concentrations, 4) determining reaction order based on how rate changes with concentration, and 5) converting a rate expression from partial pressure to molar concentration units.

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Chemical Engineering Department

Course name: Chemical Reaction Engineering


Course number: CME 331
Instructor: Ioannis Zuburtikudis

Homework #1

1) A human being (75-Kg) consumes about 6000 kJ of food per day. Assume that
the food is all glucose and that the overall reaction is:

C6 H12 O6  6O2  6CO2  6H2 O -r = 2816 kJ

Find a man’s metabolic rate (the rate of living, laughing, ...) in terms of moles of
oxygen used per m3 of person per second.

2) For the reaction stoichiometry, A  R , and the following tabulated data, is it


reasonable to represent the rate - concentration relationship by an n-th order
kinetic expression? If so, find the reaction order.

CA 42 51 110 170
rA 26 30 56 80

3) In a homogeneous isothermal liquid polymerization, 20 % of the monomer


disappears in 34 min for initial monomer concentration of 0.04 and also for 0.8
mol/liter. What is the rate of disappearance of the monomer?

4) On doubling the concentration of reactant, the rate of reaction


triples. Find the reaction order.

5) At 610 K and 1 atm, an elementary reversible gas phase reaction is reported to


proceed as follows:

2A  B  rA  k1 PA2  k 2 PB
mol k
with k1  10 3. 2
and K P  1  0.5.atm 1
lit .atm .hr k2
Convert this rate expression into concentration units.

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