Methanol is synthesized from carbon monoxide and hydrogen in a catalytic reactor. The fresh feed to the process contains 32.0 mole% CO, 64.0% H2, and 4.0% N2. This stream is mixed with a recycle...

2. Setup and solve the mass balance equations for determining the production rate
of methanol, the molar flow rate and composition of the purge gas, and the overall and single-pass conversion(all of this)

Extracted text: Methanol is synthesized from carbon monoxide and hydrogen in a catalytic reactor. The fresh feed to the process contains 32.0 mole% CO, 64.0% H2, and 4.0% N2. This stream is mixed with a recycle stream in a ratio 5 mol recycle/1 mol fresh feed to produce the feed to the reactor, which contains 13.0 mole % N2. A low single-pass conversion is attained in the reactor. The reactor effluent goes to a condenser from which two streams emerge: a liquid product stream containing essentially all the methanol formed in the reactor, and a gas stream containing all the CO, H2, and N2 leaving the reactor. The gas stream is split into two fractions: one is removed from the process as a purge stream, and the other is the recycle stream that combines with the fresh feed to the reactor.


Extracted text: b7 1o0 kmol/h FF Cнон: Mz Kmoyh Reactor condenser N= 43 KmgL' Coi 32 kmoyh Н, 64 Кeyh Nz=4 Kmol/h R =500 kmouh Purge Co IHz