Chemistry · Chapter 18

Oxygen loaded, sulfur oxidized

First add electrons to an oxygen molecule and watch the bond stretch and die. Then run the contact process reactor and find the temperature that trades yield against speed.

The oxygen family the drawing follows your controls

Contact process yield curve of yield against temperature

What are we looking at?

DioxygenO2, the gas in air
2.0bond order neutral
Bond length121 pm
Oxidation state per O0
Found inair
Electron count—
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The reactor 2 SO2 + O2 to 2 SO3

97percent of the SO2 converted
Equilibrium constant K—
SO3 in the mix—
Rate guide, 430 °C set to 1—
the plant operator's problem
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