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* Fixed-Bed Reactor for studying the Kinetics of Methane Oxidation on Supported Palladium Objectives: The general goal is to understand: the influence of the presence of catalysts on the mechanism and rate of chemical reaction the catalytic materials, their activities and the chemical and physical nature of their surfaces. The specific goals are: To understand the kinetics of the catalyzed oxidation of methane in a gradientless (perfectly mixed) reactor by: Determining the rate constant Finding the activation energy Evaluating the order of the reaction through experiments Thus obtaining the rate expression b) To apply the chemical engineering concepts to compare and interpret the observed performance of Fixed-Bed Reactor with and with out backmixing (PFTR R-R). Theoretical backgrounds The global rate of a solid catalyzed reaction is normally expressed as: Moles of reactant consumed per unit time per unit mass of catalyst (or per unit volume of the reactor containing the catalyst) The oxidation of Methane is envisioned as a single step reaction Tr is the reference temperature, taken to be 250C (1) How to measure the global reaction rate [r(C,T)]? We need to start from species mass balance equation for particular reactor. accumulation = flow in - flow out +generation by reaction (2) PFR PFR-R Equations For a Gradientless Reactor (CSTR or PFRR) CSTR PFRR Where m is the weight of the catalyst Gradienless reactor(Perfectly mixed) in which all physical rate limitations are neglected, and uniform temperature and constant pressure Where X, the fractional conversion of the reactant, is given by (3) (4) (5) (6) PFR-R Substitution from eq (1) for r(C,T) and from eq (5) for Cr casts eq (4) in the following form, which relates the reactant (Methane) conversion to rate constant and operating conditions (7) An Ideal Plug Flow Reactor This model can be described by the following differential equation for the methane material balance where x is the axial position, made di