Answer:
Explanation:
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a. On the attached document, you can see a brief scheme of the process. Thus, to know the degrees of freedom, we state the following unknowns:
- and
: extent of the reactions (2).
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and
: Molar flows at the second stream (5).
On the other hand, we've got the following equations:
- : oxygen mole balance.
- : methane mole balance.
- : water mole balance.
- : formaldehyde mole balance.
- : carbon dioxide mole balance.
Thus, the degrees of freedom are:
It means that we need two additional equations or data to solve the problem.
b. Here, the two missing data are given. For the fractional conversion of methane, we define:
And for the fractional yield of formaldehyde we can set it in terms of methane as the reagents are equimolar:
In such a way, one realizes that the output formaldehyde's molar flow is:
Which is equal to the first reaction extent , therefore, one computes the second one from the fractional conversion of methane as:
Now, one computes the rest of the output flows via:
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The total output molar flow is:
Therefore the output stream composition turns out into:
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