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Methanol is synthesized from carbon monoxide and hydrogen in a catalytic reactor. The fresh feed to the process contains

32.0mol%CO,64.0mol%H_(2)

and

4.00mol%N_(2)

. This stream is mixed with a recycle stream in a ratio of 13.00 mol recycle

()/(1)

mol fresh feed to produce the feed to the reactor, which contains

14.0mol%N_(2)

. The reactor effluent goes to a condenser from which two streams emerge: a liquid product stream containing essentially all of the methanol formed in the reactor, and a gas stream containing all of the

CO,H_(2)

, and

N_(2)

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 methanol production rate of

100.0mo(l)/(h)

, calculate the fresh feed rate

(mo(l)/(h))

, the molar flow rate and composition of the purge gas, and the overall and single-pass comversions.



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