Figure 6.4:

Conversion of A versus reactor temperature.

Code for Figure 6.4

Text of the GNU GPL.

main.m

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% Copyright (C) 2001, James B. Rawlings and John G. Ekerdt
%
% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
% modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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%
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%
% Revised 8/22/2018

%
% parameters; units are: kcal, lit, mol, min
%
k_10      = 3e7;
E_1       = 5838;
K_10      = 1.9e-11;
G_1       = -9059;
c_Af      = 4;
Q_f       = 250;
%DeltaH_R = -18;
V_R      = 2000;
conv     = 0.8;

% function retval = st_st_cA(x)
%   T     = x(1);
%   k_1   = k_10*exp(-E_1/T);
%   K_1   = K_10*exp(-G_1/T);
%   c_A   = c_Af*(1-conv);
%   c_R   = c_Af - c_A;
%   retval(1) = Q_f/V_R*(c_Af-c_A) - k_1*(c_A - 1/K_1*c_R);
% end%function
%
% T0 = 300;
% [T, fval, info] = fsolve('st_st_cA', T0);
%

T = linspace(250,400,50)';
k_1 = k_10*exp(-E_1./T);
K_1 = K_10*exp(-G_1./T);

c_A  = (Q_f/V_R + k_1./K_1)*c_Af ./ (Q_f/V_R + k_1.*(1 + 1./K_1));
convvec = (c_Af - c_A)/c_Af;
table = [T c_A convvec];

save -ascii reversible_cstr.dat table;

if (~ strcmp (getenv ('OMIT_PLOTS'), 'true')) % PLOTTING
    plot (table(:,1),table(:,3));
    % TITLE
end % PLOTTING