An aqueous glucose stream is to be catalytically hydrogenated to sorbitol in a slurry tank reactor. feeds to the reactor are an aqueous glucose stream with a concentration of 2.6 kg mol/m at a flow rate of 10-3 m/s and a 120 percent of stoichiometric hydrogen gas stream. the reactor is to be operated isothermally at 423 k, where the reaction is observed to follow the kinetics shown here: -rglucose = kchydrogen glucose k423 k = 3.76 x 10-4 (kg mol/m? ) -0.6s-1 the reaction is conducted at 10,000 kpa, the solubility of hydrogen may be assumed to be 5 kg mol/m at this pressure.