In a plant, 1,500 kg of nitrogen oxide is consumed per day to produce 1,500 kg of nitrogen dioxide per day. What is the percent yield? Use mc026-2.jpg.
We use the chemical reaction and the amount of the reactant to calculate for the theoretical yield. And with the actual yield, we can calculate for the percent yield as follows:
1500 kg NO ( 1 kmol / 38.99 kg ) ( 1 kmol NO2 / 1 kmol NO ) ( 54.99 kg / 1 mol ) = 2119.54 kg NO2