Each week, you will be required to do a number of assignments. This week, in addition to the reading assignments listed on the overview page, you are required to complete Exercise 5.
A coil visbreaker operates at 475°C for 1 min. How long will it take to achieve the same thermal severity at 440°C in a soaker visbreaking process? An apparent Arrhenius activation energy for thermal cracking is given as 45 kcal/mol. Show each step of calculations in your answer.
Once you have a solution to the exercises, you will submit your answers as a PDF by uploading your file to be graded. The MS Word, or Excel files should be saved as a PDF before submitting the exercise. Please Note: Scans of handwritten pages are not acceptable.