Xylene has three major isomers, $m-$xylene, $o-$xylene, and $p-$xylene. An equimolar gas mixture

of $m-$xylene and $o-$xylene gases is fed into an packed bed reactor with a heat exchanger

containing a cryotite catalyst. The reaction scheme is as follows:

$0-$xylene $>{?}^{k_1}m-$xylene

$0-$xylene $k_{3}p-$xylene

hese two reactions are elementary except that the reaction of o$-$xylene to p$-$xylene is irreversible.

he feed is gas phase at $330K.$ Make a plot of temperature and molar flow rates of each species

sing python. The particle size and flowrate are such that the pressure drop is negligible. Physical

ad chemical properties are given in the table below.

Iug Flow Reactor Energy Balance: Steady$-$State

omenclature:

or a reaction: $aA+$bBlongrightarrowcC$+dD$

$tilde(C{)}_{p_t}=\frac{d}{a}$tilde$(C{)}_{p_D}+\frac{c}{a}$tilde$(C{)}_{p_D}-\frac{b}{a}$tilde$(C{)}_{p_B}-\frac{a}{a}$tilde$(C{)}_{p_A}={\displaystyle \underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{}}}\frac{v_i}{a}$tilde$(C{)}_{p_i}$

$H_{rxn}{|}_T=H_{rxn}{|}_R+tilde(C{)}_{}(T-T_R)$

Overall heat transfer coefficient $(\frac{J}{m^2}(s)(K))$

area of heat transfer surface per unit volume $)$

bulk density of catalyst

$1$bmit:

pdf of jupyter notebook file,