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Transcribed Image Text:2.) Methanol is synthesized from carbon monoxide and hydrogen in a catalytic reactor. The
fresh feed to the process contains 32.0 mole% CO, 64.0% H₂, and 4.0% N₂. This stream is
mixed with a recycle stream in a ratio 5 mol recycle/ 1 mol fresh feed to produce the feed
to the reactor, which contains 13.0 mole% N₂. A low single-pass conversion is attained in
the reactor. The reactor effluent goes to a condenser from which two streams emerge: a
liquid product stream containing essentially all the methanol formed in the reactor, and a
gas stream containing all the CO, H₂, and N₂ leaving the reactor. The gas stream is split
into two fractions: one is removed from the process as a purge stream, and the other is the
recycle stream that combines with the fresh feed to the reactor. For a basis of 100 mol fresh
feed/h, calculate the production rate off methanol (mol/h), the molar flow rate and
composition of the purge gas, and the overall and single-pass conversions.
CO + 2H₂ →CH3OH
100 mol/h
32% CO
64% H₂
4% N₂
13% N₂
reactor
purge
Condenser
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