They consider the combination of a continuous steady state catalytic reactor which is followed by distillation with recycle of un-reacted products at steady state in which the following reaction takes place
CO + 2H2 ---------->CH3OH
Suppose that half the reactants are consumed in each pass with the help of reactor. The distillation produces a stream of methanol with 1% CO. The recycle stream has 5% methanol.
The flow rate of CO is maintained at 1mole/min.
1. Calculate the flow rate of hydrogen that must be added to feed stream?
2. Calculate the molar flow rate of the total feed stream to the reactor at the steady state?
3. Calculate the molar flow rate from the reactor at steady state?
4. Calculate the composition of the recycle stream coming from distillation column?