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Discussion Forum : Chemical Reaction Engineering - Section 1 (Q.No. 12)
12.
The most unsuitable reactor for carrying out reactions in which high reactant concentration favours high yields is
backmix reactor
plug flow reactor
series of CSTR
PFR in series
Answer: Option
Explanation:
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Discussion:
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Manish said:   2 years ago
The back mix reactor is also known as the ideal CSTR. In a CSTR, Reactant concentration is low as there is continuous mixing. Whereas in a PFR, concentration is High at the beginning.

Here, All the option other than the back mix behaves like PFR.
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ATUL PANDEY said:   3 years ago
This is the case of positive order reaction so we prefer pfr over mfr (back mixing reactor) and here all options except A are PFR hence A is the correct option.
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Razat rana said:   9 years ago
Because it is a series of CSTR as we know it acts as PFR.

Manjushri said:   9 years ago
You are right @Dilip.

1 .Series of CSTR-gives conversion same as PFR, So gives high Yield.
2. PFR in series- PFR in series are not better, But gives yield higher than CSTR only.
3. But back mix Reactor behave as CSTR, So gives low yield than any other arrangement mention above.

Dumbi Boipai said:   9 years ago
The concentration of the reactant also drops in the case of CSTR. So Why the answer is not CSTR?

K dilip said:   1 decade ago
This is because if back mixing is allowed the reactant concentration drops drastically.

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