Purchase Solution

Dehydrated Ethanol Reaction (Calculating Moles)

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

At intermediate concentrations of H2S04 in the temperature range 140-170 degrees C, ethanol may be dehydrated by two different independent reactions {see attachment}.
Suppose that 30% of the ethanol reacts via reaction (1) and 70% via reaction (2). How many moles of water are produced per mole of original ethanol?

Attachments
Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The solution provides a detailed explanation for calculating number of moles of water per mole of ethanol in a dehydration reaction.

Solution Preview

From your reaction schemes, we see that the first equation makes 1 mole of water for every 1 mole of ethanol. From your second equation, we can see that you make 1 ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Thermochemistry

The quiz helps in revising basic concepts about thermochemistry.

Functional groups in Organic Chemistry

You will be tested on the names of functional groups in Organic Chemistry. It is very important to know the functional groups to understand Organic reactions.

Organic Chemistry Naming: Alkanes

This is a quiz which is designed to assist students with learning the nomenclature used to identify organic compounds. This quiz focuses on the organic compounds called Alkanes.

General Chemistry - Classification of Matter

This test will assess your knowledge on the classification of matter which includes elements, compounds and mixtures.

Periodic table

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Dehydrated Ethanol Reaction

    26255 Dehydrated Ethanol Reaction At intermediate concentrations of H2S04 in the temperature range 140-170 degrees C, ethanol may be dehydrated by two different independent reactions (see attachment).

  • Moles of ATP from Oxidation of Ethanol

    reaction.

  • Chemistry Problems: Glucose and Ethanol

    431317 Chemistry Problems: Glucose and Ethanol 1. C6H12O6= 2C2H6O+2CO2 a. How many moles of glucose are required to produce 185 g of ethanol? b. How many grams of ethanol would be formed from the reaction of 0.325kg of glucose? 2.

  • Anaerobic Respiration with Ethanol

    _----> 2 C2H5OH (I) + 2 CO2 (g) Molar mass of glucose = 180 gmol-1 so, moles of glucose = 1000g/180 gmol-1 = 5.56 moles Now, 1 mol glucose produces = 2moles of ethanol therefore, 5.56 moles glucose will give = 2x5.56 moles ethanol = 11.12 moles

  • Equilibrium Constant

    26161 Equilibrium constant of a reaction in a sealed tube Ethanol and Ethanoic acid react to form Ethyl ethanoate and water according to the equation C2H5OH + CH3COOH = CH3COOC2H5+H2O When two moles each of ethanol and ethanoic acid are allowed to react

  • Finding the Concentration of Whiskey in m/v%

    If ethanol has a 3:1 mole ratio (from (2) above) with dichromate, that means we had 0.008927 moles of ethanol in the flask for the reaction. Now we have to work the dilution backwards....

  • Nickel Chloride and Sodium Phosphate Reaction and Other Chemistry Questions

    Calculate the mass of CO2 that can be produced if the reaction of 39.0g of ethanol and suffient oxygen has a 58.0% yield. 3. Calculate how many moles are contained in 1kilo, or 1000g , of C17H21NO4 (cocaine). 4.

  • Calculating Vapor Pressure

    Because, molecular wt of glycerin (C3H8O9) = 12*3 + 8 + 16*3 = 92 Molecular wt of ethanol (C2H5OH) = 2*12 + 5 + 16 + 1 = 46 No. of moles of glycerin = 53.6/92 = 0.5826 No. of moles of ethanol =133.7/46 = 2.9065 Mole fraction of solvent (i.e,

  • Calculating Mass Percentages

    22804 Calculating Mass Percentages Question: Calculate the mass percent of methanol, ethanol, and MTBE, that must be present in gasoline to yield a mixture of 1.8% oxygen by weight. First, we have to figure out a ratio.

View More Related Solutions