More than a billion pounds of acrylonitrile is produced each year in the United States. Below is the reaction for the industrial synthesis of acrylonitrile (C3H3N) from propene (C3H6):
2C3H6(g) + 2NH3(g) + 3O2(g) ? 2C3H3N(g) + 6H2O(g)
A 150.0 liter steel reactor at 25 ºC is filled with the following partial pressures of reactants: 0.500 MPa C3H6, 0.800 MPa ammonia, and 1.500 MPa oxygen gas.
Part A
What is the theoretical mass of acrylonitrile that can be produced from this mixture? The reactor is a closed vessel and its volume will not change.
Look for the chemically important terms. Do you know what each of them means, including the abbreviation for the units?
the answer is ______ kg.