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Further Reading

Aris, R., 1965. Introduction to the Analysis of Chemical Reactors, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Bailey, J.E., Ollis, D.F., 1986. Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals, second ed. McGraw-Hill Book Co.: New York.
Bull, A.T., 1985. Mixed Culture and Mixed Substrate Systems. In: Moo-Young, M. (Ed.), Comprehensive Biotechnology,
vol. 1, Pergamon Press, Elmsford, NY, pp. 281 e 300.
Fogler, H.S., 2006. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, fourth ed. Prentice-Hall.
Fredrickson, A.G., 1977. Behavior of Mixed Cultures of Microorganisms, Ann. Rev. Microbial 31, 63-87.
Shuler, M.L., Kargi, F., 2006. Bioprocess Engineering e Basic Concepts, second ed. Prentice Hall, Upper
Saddle River, NJ.

PROBLEMS

16.1. When large excess amount of A is present in the feed stream, the solid-catalyst
reaction

Solid catalyst

AþB ! CþD

is suggested to obey the following rate law

kC B
ð1þK B C B Þ

r 0 ¼

2

and experimental data on the reaction rate is shown in Fig. P16.1 . A fluidized CSTR
that can have 56 kg-catalyst loaded is available to use. A feed stream, of 2.4 m 3 /min,
containing 2.8 mol-B/m 3 solution in A is to be treated using the reactor.

0.14

0.12

0.10

0.08

0.06

0.04

0.02

0.00

0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0

C B , mol/m 3

FIGURE P16.1 Experimental reaction rate as a function of concentration c B when excess amount of A is present.