NEED ANSWER TO THE BOLD QUESTION.

P6-11 Pure butanol is to be fed into a semibatch reactor containing pure ethyl acetate to produce butyl acetate and ethanol. The reaction CH3COOC2H5 +C4H9OH CH3COOC4H9 +C2H5OH is elementary and reversible. The reaction is carried out isothermally at 300 K. At this temperature, the equilibrium constant is 1.08 and the specific reaction rate is 9 10 dm /mols. Initially, there is 200 dm of ethyl acetate in the vat, and butanol is fed at a volumetric rate of 0.05 dm /s. The feed and initial concentrations of butanol and ethyl acetate are 10.93 and 7.72 mol/dm , respectively.

2. Plot and analyze the conversion of ethyl acetate, the rate of reaction, and the concentration of butanol as a function of time. 3. Rework part (b), assuming that ethanol evaporates (reactive distillation) as soon as it forms. (This is a graduate level question.)