Chemical Reaction Engineering

Chemical Reaction Engineering Books

• Chemical Reaction Engineering - by Octave Levenspiel
  -- Chemical reaction engineering is concerned with the exploitation of chemical reactions on a commercial scale. It's goal is the successful design and operation of chemical reactors. This text emphasizes qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. Simple ideas are treated first, and are then extended to the more complex.
  
  
• Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering - by H. Scott Fogler
  -- Authoritative coverage of the principles of chemical reaction engineering with an unsurpassed focus on critical thinking and creative problem solving, employing open-ended questions and stressing the Socratic method. Clear and superbly organized, it integrates text, visuals, and computer simulations to help readers solve even the most challenging problems through reasoning, rather than by memorizing equations.

• Chemical Reaction Engineering - by Ian S. Metcalfe
  -- This compact yet comprehensive book covers the material required for a basic understanding of chemical reaction engineering. The principles of reaction engineering are simply and clearly presented, and illustrative problems are used to demonstrate how these principles are practically applied.

Chemical Reaction Engineering Links

• Mole Balances - Chemical Identity, Reaction Rate, General Mole Balance Equation, Mole Balance on Different Reactor Types

• Conversion and Reactor Sizing - Conversion, Design Equations, Reactor Sizing, Numerical Evaluation of Integrals, Reactors in Series, Space Time
  
  

• Rate Laws and Stoichiometry - Relative Rates of Reaction, Power Law Model, Rate Constant, k, Elementary Reactions, Non-Elementary Rate Laws, Reversible Reactions, Batch System Stoichiometric Table, Flow System Stoichiometric Table

• Algorithm for Isothermal Reactor Design - Algorithm for Isothermal Reactor Design, The elementary liquid phase reaction, Applications/Examples of the CRE Algorithm, Reversible Reactions, ODE (Polymath) Solutions to CRE Problems, General Guidelines for California Problems, PBR with Pressure Drop, Optimum Particle Diameter

• Collection and Analysis of Rate Data - Finding the Rate Law, Three Ways to Determine (-dCA/dt) from Concentration-Time Data (Graphical, Polynomial, Finite Difference, Non-Linear Least Squares Analysis), Integral Method

• Multiple Reactions - Selectivity and Yield, Series Reactions, Algorithm for Multiple Reactions

• Reaction Mechanisms, Pathways, Bioreactions and Bioreactors - Active Intermediates / Free Radicals (PSSH), Enzymes, Bioreactors, Pharmacokinetics, Polymerization

• Steady-State Non-Isothermal Reactor Design - Energy Balances, Rationale and Overview, User Friendly Energy Balance Equations, Reversible Reactions, Adiabatic Reactions, Applications of the PFR/PBR User Friendly Energy Balance Equations, Interstage Cooling/Heating, Evaluating the Heat Exchanger Term, Multiple Steady States (MSS),Multiple Reactions with Heat Effects

• Unsteady State Non-Isothermal Reactor Design - Batch Systems with Heat Effects Example, Control of Chemical Reactors, Linearized Stability Theory, Predicting the Behavior of a CSTR using LST

• Catalysis and Catalytic Reactions - Octane Rating, Steps in a Catalytic Reaction, Rate Limiting Steps, Regulations for Automotive Exhaust Emissions, Chemical Vapor Deposition, CVD, Types of Catalyst Deactivation, Temperature-Time Trajectories, Moving Bed Reactors & Straight Through Transport Reactors

• External Diffusion Effects on Heterogeneous Reactions - 7 Steps in a Catalytic Reaction, External Diffusion Across a Stagnant Film, Relative Rates of Diffusion and Reaction, Mass Transfer in a Packed Bed of Catalyst Particles, Shrinking Core Model

• External Diffusion Effects on Heterogeneous Reactions - 7 Steps in a Catalytic Reaction, External Diffusion Across a Stagnant Film, Common Cases of the Constitutive Equation, Relaitve Rates of Diffusion and Reaction, Mass Transfer in a Packed Bed of Catalyst Particles

• Diffusion and Reaction in Porous Catalysts - Diffusion and Reaction in Catalyst Pellets, Fluidization Engineering

• Distribution of Residence Times for Chemical Reactors - Residence Time Distribution, RTD for Ideal Reactors, RTD to Diagnose Faulty Operation, Models to Calculate the Exit Concentrations and Conversions, Comparing Segregation and Maximum Mixedness Predictions, Multiple Reactions and RTD Data

• Models for Nonideal Reactors - One Parameter Models, Two Parameter Models