Consider a gas phase, second order reaction carried out in a PBR with 100 g catalysts at 500 K. The reaction rate constant is 4 . The molar flow rate of A into the PBR is 10 mol/min and the inlet pressure is 15 atm. The feedstock contains pure A. You can treat the system as an ideal gas.

a). [0.5 pt] What conversion can be achieved without considering the pressure drop?

b). [0.5 pt] What conversion can be reached with pressure drop and =0.01 g-1?