Syllabus For The Subject Chemical Reactor Engineering

CHEMICAL REACTOR ENGINEERING

Contents

Notation /xi

Chapter 1

Overview of Chemical Reaction Engineering I1

Part I

Homogeneous Reactions in Ideal

Reactors I11

Chapter 2

Kinetics of Homogeneous Reactions I13

2.1 Concentration-Dependent Term of a Rate Equation I14

2.2 Temperature-Dependent Term of a Rate Equation I27

2.3 Searching for a Mechanism 129

2.4 Predictability of Reaction Rate from Theory 132

Chapter 3

Interpretation of Batch Reactor Data I38

3.1 Constant-volume Batch Reactor 139

3.2 Varying-volume Batch Reactor 167

3.3 Temperature and Reaction Rate 172

3.4 The Search for a Rate Equation I75

Chapter 4

Introduction to Reactor Design 183

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Chapter 5

Ideal Reactors for a Single Reaction 190

5.1 Ideal Batch Reactors I91

52. Steady-State Mixed Flow Reactors 194

5.3 Steady-State Plug Flow Reactors 1101

Chapter 6

Design for Single Reactions I120

6.1 Size Comparison of Single Reactors 1121

6.2 Multiple-Reactor Systems 1124

6.3 Recycle Reactor 1136

6.4 Autocatalytic Reactions 1140

Chapter 7

Design for Parallel Reactions 1152

Chapter 8

Potpourri of Multiple Reactions 1170

8.1 Irreversible First-Order Reactions in Series 1170

8.2 First-Order Followed by Zero-Order Reaction 1178

8.3 Zero-Order Followed by First-Order Reaction 1179

8.4 Successive Irreversible Reactions of Different Orders 1180

8.5 Reversible Reactions 1181

8.6 Irreversible Series-Parallel Reactions 1181

8.7 The Denbigh Reaction and its Special Cases 1194

Chapter 9

Temperature and Pressure Effects 1207

9.1 Single Reactions 1207

9.2 Multiple Reactions 1235

Chapter 10

Choosing the Right Kind of Reactor 1240

Part I1

Flow Patterns, Contacting, and Non-Ideal

Flow I255

Chapter 11

Basics of Non-Ideal Flow 1257

11.1 E, the Age Distribution of Fluid, the RTD 1260

11.2 Conversion in Non-Ideal Flow Reactors 1273

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Chapter 12

Compartment Models 1283

Chapter 13

The Dispersion Model 1293

13.1 Axial Dispersion 1293

13.2 Correlations for Axial Dispersion 1309

13.3 Chemical Reaction and Dispersion 1312

Chapter 14

The Tanks-in-Series Model 1321

14.1 Pulse Response Experiments and the RTD 1321

14.2 Chemical Conversion 1328

Chapter 15

The Convection Model for Laminar Flow 1339

15.1 The Convection Model and its RTD 1339

15.2 Chemical Conversion in Laminar Flow Reactors 1345

Chapter 16

Earliness of Mixing, Segregation and RTD 1350

16.1 Self-mixing of a Single Fluid 1350

16.2 Mixing of Two Miscible Fluids 1361

Part 111

Reactions Catalyzed by Solids 1367

Chapter 17

Heterogeneous Reactions - Introduction 1369

Chapter 18

Solid Catalyzed Reactions 1376

18.1 The Rate Equation for Surface Kinetics 1379

18.2 Pore Diffusion Resistance Combined with Surface Kinetics 1381

18.3 Porous Catalyst Particles I385

18.4 Heat Effects During Reaction 1391

18.5 Performance Equations for Reactors Containing Porous Catalyst

Particles 1393

18.6 Experimental Methods for Finding Rates 1396

18.7 Product Distribution in Multiple Reactions 1402

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Chapter 19

The Packed Bed Catalytic Reactor 1427

Chapter 20

Reactors with Suspended Solid Catalyst,

Fluidized Reactors of Various Types 1447

20.1 Background Information About Suspended Solids Reactors 1447

20.2 The Bubbling Fluidized Bed-BFB 1451

20.3 The K-L Model for BFB 1445

20.4 The Circulating Fluidized Bed-CFB 1465

20.5 The Jet Impact Reactor 1470

Chapter 21

Deactivating Catalysts 1473

21.1 Mechanisms of Catalyst Deactivation 1474

21.2 The Rate and Performance Equations 1475

21.3 Design 1489

Chapter 22

GIL Reactions on Solid Catalyst: Trickle Beds, Slurry

Reactors, Three-Phase Fluidized Beds 1500

22.1 The General Rate Equation 1500

22.2 Performanc Equations for an Excess of B 1503

22.3 Performance Equations for an Excess of A 1509

22.4 Which Kind of Contactor to Use 1509

22.5 Applications 1510

Part IV

Non-Catalytic Systems I521

Chapter 23

Fluid-Fluid Reactions: Kinetics I523

23.1 The Rate Equation 1524

Chapter 24

Fluid-Fluid Reactors: Design 1.540

24.1 Straight Mass Transfer 1543

24.2 Mass Transfer Plus Not Very Slow Reaction 1546

Chapter 25

Fluid-Particle Reactions: Kinetics 1566

25.1 Selection of a Model 1568

25.2 Shrinking Core Model for Spherical Particles of Unchanging

Size 1570

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25.3 Rate of Reaction for Shrinking Spherical Particles 1577

25.4 Extensions 1579

25.5 Determination of the Rate-Controlling Step 1582

Chapter 26

Fluid-Particle Reactors: Design 1589

Part V

Biochemical Reaction Systems I609

Chapter 27

Enzyme Fermentation 1611

27.1 Michaelis-Menten Kinetics (M-M kinetics) 1612

27.2 Inhibition by a Foreign Substance-Competitive and

Noncompetitive Inhibition 1616

Chapter 28

Microbial Fermentation-Introduction and Overall

Picture 1623

Chapter 29

Substrate-Limiting Microbial Fermentation 1630

29.1 Batch (or Plug Flow) Fermentors 1630

29.2 Mixed Flow Fermentors 1633

29.3 Optimum Operations of Fermentors 1636

Chapter 30

Product-Limiting Microbial Fermentation 1645

30.1 Batch or Plus Flow Fermentors for n = 1 I646

30.2 Mixed Flow Fermentors for n = 1 1647

Appendix 1655

Name Index 1662

Subject Index 1665

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