An important time parameter in reaction engineering is the reactor space time , the time needed to process one reactor volume of fluid. For

An important time parameter in reaction engineering is the reactor space time τ , the time needed to process one reactor volume of fluid. For an ideal plug-flow reactor (PFR), a mass balance gives a design equation of

where C_A0 is the initial concentration of reactant A, f_A is the fractional conversion, and r_A is the rate of reaction. We can see that by plotting fractional conversion data against −1/r_A, space time can be calculated by integration. Rate data were collected straight from the reactor with the innovative rate meter. Given C_A0 = 5M and the data in Table 8.6, write a MATLAB program to calculate the space time of an ideal PFR via interpolation and multiple trapezoid integration to a reasonable accuracy. Let f_Ain = 0.05 and f_Aout = 0.75.

fAout dfa JfAin -TA t=CAO 10