Chemical Reaction Engineering

Filling a longstanding gap for graduate courses in the field Chemical Reaction Engineering: Beyond the Fundamentals covers basic concepts as well as complexities of chemical reaction engineering including novel techniques for process intensification. The book is divided into three parts: Fundamentals Revisited Building on Fundamentals and Beyond the Fundamentals. Part I: Fundamentals Revisited reviews the salient features of an undergraduate course introducing concepts essential to reactor design such as mixing unsteady-state operations multiple steady states and complex reactions. Part II: Building on Fundamentals is devoted to skill building particularly in the area of catalysis and catalytic reactions. It covers chemical thermodynamics emphasizing the thermodynamics of adsorption and complex reactions; the fundamentals of chemical kinetics with special emphasis on microkinetic analysis; and heat and mass transfer effects in catalysis including transport between phases transfer across interfaces and effects of external heat and mass transfer. It also contains a chapter that provides readers with tools for making accurate kinetic measurements and analyzing the data obtained. Part III: Beyond the Fundamentals presents material not commonly covered in textbooks addressing aspects of reactors involving more than one phase. It discusses solid catalyzed fluid-phase reactions in fixed-bed and fluidized-bed reactors gasâsolid noncatalytic reactions reactions involving at least one liquid phase (gasâliquid and liquidâliquid) and multiphase reactions. This section also describes membrane-assisted reactor engineering combo reactors homogeneous catalysis and phase-transfer catalysis. The final chapter provides a perspective on future trends in reaction engineering. . Language: English