The decomposition of cyclohexane to benzene and hydrogen is mass transfer limite

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The decomposition of cyclohexane to benzene and hydrogen is mass transfer limited at high temperatures.  The reaction is carried out at 2 atm and 500oC in a plug-flow packed-bed catalytic reactor, 50 cm in internal diameter.  The reactor is packed with spherical catalyst pellets that are 1 cm in diameter.  The bed porosity is 40%.  The feed entering the reactor is 20% cyclohexane and 80% hydrogen at a volumetric flow rate of 60 liters per minute.  You may assume that the value of the mass transfer coefficient, kG, is 0.40 cm/min.  Calculate the length of reactor necessary to achieve 90% conversion of cyclohexane ?

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