Question

3) Carbon monoxide and hydrogen react to form methanol. A freshfeed stream
containing CO and H2 joins a recycle stream and the combined streamis fed to a reactor.
The reactor outlet stream contains 63.1% H2, 27.4% CO and 9.5%CH3OH by moles, and
flows at 350 mol/min. The outlet from the reactor enters acondenser. Most of the
methanol (and none of the H2 or CO) is condensed. The liquidmethanol is removed from
the process as the product stream. The gas stream, which contains0.40 mol% CH3OH, is
recycled to combine with the fresh feed before the reactor.Calculate molar flow rates of
CO and H2 in the fresh feed, the production rate of liquid CH3OH,and the single-pass and
overall conversions of carbon monoxide.