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