Comparison of the Calculated Heat Loads with the Overall and Specific Energy Balances
Ethyl acetate is to be produced from the acetic acid and ethyl alcohol feed used in the illustrations of Secs. 14.1 and 14.2. If the feed and the product streams are both at 100ºC, and 37.2 percent of the acid is converted to the ester, determine the total heat input into any reactor to produce 2500 kg of the ester. Show that this heat input is equivalent to that obtained in the illustrations in the previous sections.