Carbon monoxide and hydrogen react to form methanol

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Carbon monoxide and hydrogen react to form methanol. A fresh feed stream containing CO and H2 joins a recycle stream and the combined stream is 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 a condenser. Most of the methanol (and none of the H2 or CO) is condensed. The liquid methanol is removed from the process as the product stream. The gas stream, which contains 0.40 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.

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