5. A small pilot scale test facility has been used to develop a reactor for the liquid phase reaction: tridecyl alcohol + acrylic acid → tridecyl acrylate + water TOH +

AA → TDA + H₂O Feed to the pilot reactor is 4 mol/min of TOH and 4 mol/min of AA at 75°C and 1 atm. The pilot reactor is 150 L and converts 85% of the TOH to TDA. You have been asked to design a full scale reactor that can process 400 mol/min of TOH. If a similar feed mixture, temperature, and pressure are used, what size reactor is needed to get 85% conversion? Explain your answer. (a) 15 L (b) 150 L (c) 1,500 L (d) 15,000 L (This is the type of reactor calculation you will do for your plant design projects)