{"id":153855,"date":"2023-08-01T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=153855"},"modified":"2023-08-01T12:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:09:38","slug":"consider-the-reactor-shown-in-the-figure-the-flow-rate-through-the-reactor-is-q-m3-h-the-concentrations-in-mg-l-of-a-compound-in-the-influent-and-effluent-are-c0-and-c-respectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/consider-the-reactor-shown-in-the-figure-the-flow-rate-through-the-reactor-is-q-m3-h-the-concentrations-in-mg-l-of-a-compound-in-the-influent-and-effluent-are-c0-and-c-respectively\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider the reactor shown in the figure. The flow rate through the reactor is Q m3\/h. The concentrations (in mg\/L) of a compound in the influent and effluent are C0 and C, respectively"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. Consider the reactor shown in the figure. The flow rate through the reactor is <em>Q m<sup>3<\/sup>\/h<\/em>. The concentrations (in <em>mg\/L<\/em>) of a compound in the influent and effluent are <em>C<\/em>0 and <em>C<\/em>, respectively. The compound is degraded in the reactor following the first order reaction. The mixing condition of the reactor can be varied such that the reactor becomes either a completely mixed flow reactor (CMFR) or a plug-flow reactor (PFR). The length of the reactor can be adjusted in these two mixing conditions to <em>L<\/em>CMFR and <em>L<\/em>PFR while keeping the cross-section of the reactor constant. Assuming steady state and for <em>C<\/em>\/<em>C<\/em>0 = 0.8, the value of <em>L<\/em>CMFR\/<em>L<\/em>PFR (<em>round off to 2 decimal places<\/em>) is <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-468.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-468.png 395w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-468-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"283\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-469.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153863\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Consider the reactor shown in the figure. The flow rate through the reactor is Q m3\/h. The concentrations (in mg\/L) of a compound in the influent and effluent are C0 and C, respectively. The compound is degraded in the reactor following the first order reaction. The mixing condition of the reactor can be varied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":153867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"class_list":["post-153855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153868,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153855\/revisions\/153868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}