Go to Professor Herz’s Reactor Lab on the CRE Web site at www.reactorlab.net.
a. Download Division 5, Lab 2 of the Reactor Lab from the CRE Web site for the selective oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide. Click the [i] info button to get information about the system. Perform experiments and develop rate equations for the reactions. Write a technical memo that reports your results and includes plots and statistical measurements of how well your kinetic model fits experimental data.
b. Download Division 5, Labs 3 and 4 of the Reactor Lab for batch reactors in which parallel and series reactions, respectively, can be carried out. Investigate how dilution with solvent affects the selectivity for different reaction orders and write a memo describing your findings.
Additional Homework Problems
A number of homework problems that can be used for exams or supplementary problems or examples are found on the CRE Web site,
http://www.umich.edu/~elements/6e/index.html.