Book description
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 Beyon
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Notations
- Overview
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Part I - Fundamentals Revisited
- Objectives
- Introduction
- The essential minimum of chemical reaction engineering
- The skill development
- Getting started
- Warm-up questions
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Chapter 1: Reactions and reactors: Basic concepts Reactions and reactors: Basic concepts
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Reaction rates
- Stoichiometry of the rate equation
- Multiple steady states
- Explore yourself
- References
- Bibliography
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Chapter 2: Complex reactions and reactors
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Reduction of complex reactions
- Rate equations
- Selectivity and yield
- Yield versus number of steps
- Reactor design for complex reactions
- Reactor choice for maximizing yields/selectivities
- Plug-flow reactor with recycle
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Semibatch reactors
- Constant-volume reactions with constant rates of addition and removal: Scheme 1
- Variable-volume reactor with constant rate of inflow: Scheme 2
- Variable-volume reactor with constant rate of outflow of one of the products: Scheme 3
- General expression for an SBR for multiple reactions with inflow of liquid and outflow of liquid and vapor: Scheme 4
- Nonisothermal operation
- Optimum temperatures/temperature profiles for maximizing yields/selectivities
- Explore yourself
- References
- Bibliography
- Interlude I
- Chapter 3: Nonideal reactor analysis
- Interlude II
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Part II - Building on Fundamentals
- Introduction
- The different tools of the trade
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Chapter 4: Rates and equilibria: The thermodynamic and extrathermodynamic approaches
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Basic thermodynamic relationships and properties
- Thermodynamics of reactions in solution
- Extrathermodynamic approach
- Extrathermodynamic relationships between rate and equilibrium parameters
- Thermodynamics of adsorption
- Appendix
- Explore yourself
- References
- Bibliography
- Interlude III
- Chapter 5: Theory of chemical kinetics in bulk and on the surface
- Chapter 6: Reactions with an interface
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Chapter 7: Laboratory reactors
- Chapter objectives
- Chemical reaction tests in a laboratory
- A perspective on statistical experimental design
- Batch laboratory reactors
- Rate parameters from batch reactor data
- Flow reactors for testing gas–solid catalytic reactions
- Transport disguises in perspective
- Analyzing the data
- Explore yourself
- References
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Part III - Beyond the Fundamentals
- Objectives
- Introduction
- The different tools of the trade
- Process intensification
- References
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Chapter 8: Fixed-bed reactor design for solid catalyzed fluid-phase reactions
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Nonisothermal, nonadiabatic, and adiabatic reactors
- Adiabatic reactor
- Choice between NINA-PBR and A-PBR
- Alternative fixed-bed designs
- Explore yourself
- References
- Bibliography
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Chapter 9: Fluidized-bed reactor design for solid catalyzed fluid-phase reactions
- Chapter objectives
- General comments
- Fluidization: Some basics
- Two-phase theory of fluidization
- Geldart’s classification
- Bubbling bed model of fluidized-bed reactors
- Solids distribution
- Calculation of conversion
- Strategies to improve fluid-bed reactor performance
- Extension to other regimes of fluidization types of reactors
- Deactivation control
- Some practical considerations
- Fluidized-bed versus fixed-bed reactors
- Explore yourself
- References
- Chapter 10: Gas–solid noncatalytic reactions and reactors
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Chapter 11: Gas–liquid and liquid–liquid reactions and reactors
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Diffusion accompanied by an irreversible reaction of general order
- Diffusion and reaction in film, followed by negligible or finite reaction in the bulk: Regime 3 (fast reaction), and regime covering 1, 2, and 3
- Measurement of mass transfer coefficients
- Reactor design
- A generalized form of equation for all regimes
- Classification of gas–liquid contactors
- Reactor design for gas–liquid reactions
- Liquid–liquid contactors
- Stirred tank reactor: Some practical considerations
- References
- Chapter 12: Multiphase reactions and reactors
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Chapter 13: Membrane-assisted reactor engineering
- Introduction
- General considerations
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Modeling of membrane reactors
- Packed-bed inert selective membrane reactor with packed catalyst (IMR-P)
- Fluidized-bed inert selective membrane reactor (IMR-F)
- Catalytic selective membrane reactor (CMR-E)
- Packed-bed catalytic selective membrane reactor (CMR-P)
- Catalytic nonselective membrane reactor (CNMR-E)
- Catalytic nonselective hollow membrane reactor for multiphase reactions (CNHMR-MR)
- Immobilized enzyme membrane reactor
- Operational features
- Comparison of reactors
- Examples of the use of membrane reactors in organic technology/synthesis
- Chapter 14: Combo reactors: Distillation column reactors
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Chapter 15: Homogeneous catalysis
- Introduction
- Formalisms in transition metal catalysis
- Electron rules (“electron bookkeeping”)
- Operational scheme of homogeneous catalysis
- Basic reactions of homogeneous catalysis
- Main features of transition metal catalysis in organic synthesis: A summary
- A typical class of industrial reactions: Hydrogenation
- General kinetic analysis
- References
- Chapter 16: Phase-transfer catalysis
- Chapter 17: Forefront of the chemical reaction engineering field
- Subject Index
- Author Index
Product information
- Title: Chemical Reaction Engineering
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781482217964
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