Monday, 14 October 2013

8. Multiple Reactions, Yields and selectivity:
A reaction can produce more than one product that is an economic loss. Engineers need to optimize the procedure in such way to produce the desired product as much as possible and the non-desired product at a minimum.

The yield of desired product can be calculated as:
                                            moles of desired product/ moles that would form if          
                                                            moles un-desired products formed 
(Can be expressed as fraction of percentage)              
                                                                                     
Selectivity of a reaction can be calculated as product formed:           
                              moles desired product/ moles Undesired product                                                                                             



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