Adsorption in a stirred tank reactor. You know that your product reacts extremely rapidly with your adsorbent such that equilibrium is approached quickly in the tank. Also since your product is dilute, you can assume that the adsorption isotherm is linear. (a) How is the mass balance equation below simplified given the assumptions stated above? evay = H(): – y) – (1-e)v da dt (b) Solve analytically the equation obtained in part (a) using appropriate boundary conditions. (c) Plot y versus time for the case of no adsorption and for K = 1, 10, and 100 given H = 1 L/min, yF = 10 g/L, ε = 0.75, and V= 2 L. (d) On a separate plot, sketch (do not attempt analytical solutions) the anticipated results if adsorption follows a Freundlich isotherm where n=0.1, 1.0, and 2.0.

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