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Chemical Reaction Engineering covers Heat Effects, Isothermal Design, Stoichiometry, Rate Laws, Mole Balance and many other topics. This lecture includes: Integral Method, Nonlinear Least Regression, Rate Law, Stoichiometry, Mole Balances, Batch Reactor, Integral Method, Differential Method, Non-Linear Least-Square Analysis, Residuals
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from Experimental Data ^ Integral Method ^ Differential (Graphical) Method ^ Nonlinear Least Regression
: (We will withdraw samples and record the concentration of A as a function of time.)^ A
^ Products^ dN^ A ^ rVA^ dt^
r kC (^) A A
dC^^ A ^ kC^ Adt^
α^ = 0, 1, 2 and check against experimental plot.
ktktCC CAktCrAA CAAA 0 0 0
(^11) (^210) ln t C^ A ln(C^ /C^ )A0^ A^ t
1/C^ A t docsity.com
dC A^ kC^ A dt dC A Ck lnlnln ^ Adt Taking the natural log of
dC^ A^ ^ vs^ C^ ^ ^ A dt The reaction order can be found from a ln-ln plot of:dC^ A ^ dt C C AP^ A dCA dtSlope =P
α ln ln
dC A ^ dt pk ^ C^ Ap docsity.com
Three ways to determine (-dC
/dt) from concentration-time dataA^ ^ Graphical differentiation ^ Numerical differentiation formulas ^ Differentiation of a polynomial fit to the data 1. Graphical C^ A^ ^ t 7
t
C^ A ^ t dC^ A dt ^0 dC^ A dt t^1 dC^ A dt t^20 The method accentuates measurement error!
t^ t 21
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-dC^ /dt^ 0.35^ 0.25A^
Plot (–dC^ /dt) as a function of CA^
A ln Slope =C^ A
α dC^ /dtA^
ln
ln C dC^ /dtA^ Slope =^ α p^ lnA dC^ A dt CA^ p
to obtain: Rearranging to obtain the calculated concentrationas a function of time, we obtain:
r kC (^) A A dC AkC Adt (^0) t C C (^0) A A 1 1 (^) (1 ) C C kt (^0) A A 1 1/(1^ ) ^ [ (1 )^ ] C C C kt (^0) Ac A A
α^ and k that would minimize the sum of squares of differences between themeasured (C) and calculated (CAm^
) concentrations.Ac That is, for N data points,Similarly one can calculate the time at a specified concentration, t
c and compare it with the measured time, t
, at that same concentration.m^ That is, we find the values of k and
α^ that minimize:
1 ^ C C ^1 ^ ktAmi A^^0
We find the values of alpha and k which minimize s
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