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Methanol may be produced by the reaction of carbon dioxide and hydrogen: C O 2 + 3 H 2 C H 3 O H +

Methanol may be produced by the reaction of carbon dioxide and hydrogen:
CO2+3H2CH3OH+H2O
In the process depicted below, the fresh feed (1) contains hydrogen, carbon dioxide and inerts in the composition listed in the table below. The reactor effluent (3) passes through a condenser, which removes essentially all of the methanol and water formed. These products exit through stream (7) with no reactants or inerts. The reactants and inerts are recycled to the reactor (6). To avoid buildup of the inerts inn the system, 17.2% of stream (4) is withdrawn from the recycle as a purge stream (5). The global conversion is 90%. Answer the questions below for a production of 1000 lbmolh of methanol.
a) Which is the limiting reactant? (5pts)
b) Fill the table below with the molar compositions and flow rates of all the streams (25pts)
c) What is the per pass conversion? (5pts)
\table[[lbmolh,,CO2,H2,CH3OH,H2O,Inerts,Total],[1,y,0.2488,0.7464,,,,],[F,,,,,,],[3,y,,,,,,],[F,,,,,,],[4,F,,,,,,],[y,,,,,,],[,F,,,,,,],[6,y,,,,,,],[,,,,,,],[,F,,,,,,],[,y,,,,,,],[,F,,,,,,]]
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