Calculate the molar flow rate from reactor at steady state


They consider the combination of a continuous steady state catalytic reactor followed by the distillation with recycle of the un-reacted products at steady state in which the following reaction takes place

CO +2H2 ---------->CH3OH

Assume that half the reactants are consumed in each pass through the reactor. The distillation produces a stream of methanol with 1% CO. The recycle stream contains 5% methanol.

The flow rate of CO is maintained at 1 mole/min.

1. Calculate the flow rate of hydrogen that must be added to the feed stream?

2. Calculate the molar flow rate of the total feed stream to the reactor at steady state?

3. Calculate the molar flow rate from the reactor at steady state?

4. Calculate the composition of the recycle stream coming from the distillation column?

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