Fundamentals of Reaction Engineering
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776815103
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL REACTOR DESIGN; title: 1.1. Introduction; title: 1.2. General mass balance for isothermal chemical reactors; title: 1.3. Mass balances for isothermal batch reactors; title: 1.4. Continuous operation: Tubular reactors & the plug fl ow assumption; title: 1.5. Continuous operation: Continuous stirred tank reactors & the perfect mixing assumption; title: 1.6. CSTR reactors in cascade; title: 1.7. The start-up/shutdown problem for a CSTR normally operating at steady state; title: 2. CHAPTER 2: REACTOR DESIGN FOR MULTIPLE REACTIONS; title: 2.1. Consecutive and parallel reactions; title: 2.2. Simple Consecutive reactions: Applications to reactor types; title: 2.3. Parallel reactions; title: 2.4. Effect of temperature on relative rates of parallel reactions; title: 2.5. How relative rates of reaction can affect the choice of chemical reactors; title: 2.6. Extents of reaction: definitions and simple applications; title: 3. CHAPTER 3: NON-ISOTHERMAL REACTORS; title: 3.1. Energy balance equations: Introduction; title: 3.2. Energy balance equations for CSTR reactors; title: 3.3. Multiplicity of steady states in non-isothermal CSTR’s; title: 3.4. Non-isothermal CSTR’s: The adiabatic operating line; title: 3.5. Mass & energy balances in tubular reactors; title: 4. CHAPTER 4: REVERSIBLE REACTIONS IN NON-ISOTHERMAL REACTORS; title: 4.1. Reversible reactions; title: 4.2. Reactor design for reversible endothermic reactions; title: 4.3. Reactor design for reversible exothermic reactions; title: 4.4. Reversible reactions: Conversions in a non-isothermal CSTR; title: 4.5. Reversible-exothermic reaction (?Hr < 0): “inter-stage cooling” and “cold-shot cooling”; title: 5. CHAPTER 5: EFFECT OF FLOW PATTERNS ON CONVERSION; title: 5.1. Introduction; title: 5.2. Discussing the plug fl ow assumption; title: 5.3. Defining residence time distributions; title: 5.4. Calculation of conversions from the residence time distribution; title: 6. CHAPTER 6: THE DESIGN OF FIXED BED CATALYTIC REACTORS-I; title: 6.1. Introduction; title: 6.2. Mass transport between the bulk fluid phase and external catalyst surfaces in isothermal reactors; title: 6.3. Defining effectiveness factors – for isothermal pellets; title: 6.4. Isothermal effectiveness factors; title: 6.5. Effectiveness factors for reaction rate orders other than unity; title: 6.6. Criteria for determining the signifi cance of intra-particle diffusion Resistances; title: 6.7. Simultaneous mass & energy transport from the bulk fluid phase to external catalyst surfaces; title: 6.8. Effectiveness factors for non-isothermal catalyst pellets; title: 7. CHAPTER 7: THE DESIGN OF FIXED BED CATALYTIC REACTORS-II; title: 7.1. Introduction; title: 7.2. “Pseudo-Homogeneous” FBCR models; title: 7.3. Elements of Column I in Table 7.1; title: 7.4. Two-dimensional FBCR models; title: 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; title: 9. REFERENCES