alpha = 0.35 kg^-1

Ethyl acetate is an extensively used solvent and can be formed by the vapor-phase esterification of acetic acid and ethanol. in the pressure of microporous resin as a catalyst in a packed bed reactor. the following elementary reaction is operated at equal molar feed rate of acedic acid and isothermolly at 125C at the inlet pressure of 10atm in a packed bed reactor. CH3(CO)OOH+CH3CH2OHA+BCH3(CO)OCH2CH3+H2OC+D the reactor length is 2m, and the reactor diameter is 5cm. the ethyl acetate conversion is determined by both neglecting pressure drop and accounting for pressure drop. the calculated error in conversion when pressure drop is neglected if found to be 25%. a) calculate the mass of microporous resin used. b) calculate the conversion when the pressure drop is not ignored. c) campare i. the total pressure. ii. conversion of acetic acid. iii. reaction rate of ethy acetate profiles through the reactor length for the cases of pressure drop and no pressure drop by just sketching without moling any calculation. Make comment on neglecting the pressure drop, in which cases? In terms of chemical engineering ethics. The density at the catalyst =1000kg/m3, and the bed parasity =0.40 Pressure ratio, P/P0=(1pW)0.5