Recent questions tagged process-calculations-and-thermodynamics

For a chemical reaction, the ratio of rate constant at $500\:K$ to that at $400\:K$ is $2.5$. Given $R=8.314\:J$ mol$^{-1}$ $K^{-1}$, the value of activation energy (in $...

Two packed towers are designed for the same mass velocity of the gas. The first has liquid and gas flow rates of $30\:kg/s$ and $1.2\:kg/s$, respectively, while the corre...

Consider the following properties :$\begin{array}{cc}\&\text{P. temperature} & \text{Q. specific gravity} \\ &\text{R. chemical potential} & \text{ S. volume} \\ \\ \en...

Liquid phase isomerization of $o$-xylene to $p$-xylene using a zeolite catalyst was carried out in a $CSTR$ three sets of kinetic data at different temperatures and stirr...

The Annual Fixed Charges ($AFC$) and Annual Utilities Costs ($AUC$) of a distillation column being designed are expressed in terms of the reflux ratio ($R$) as $AFC$ ($Rs...

The reactant ($M$) is converted into product ($N$) in the presence of catalyst in a fixed bed reactor. All the flow rates ($F,\:G,\:H,\:P $ and $R$) in mol/$s$, and mole ...

Economy of evaporators used for concentrating sugarcane juice is$\frac{kg\:of\:concentrated\:juice\:produced}{kg\:of\:steam\:supplied}$$\frac{kg\:of\:steam\:supplied}{kg\...