This up-to-date textbook fills a longstanding gap for graduate courses in chemical reaction engineering. It explores the interplay between transport processes and reaction kinetics, multiphase reactions and reactors, and optimization and reactor stability. The book includes a brief review of major concepts, describes chemical reaction kinetics and the effect of various factors, and addresses reactor classification and reactor design for increasingly complex situations. It helps readers to develop the facility to apply engineering analysis to a representative spectrum of industrially important reaction engineering problems
Preface
Part I : Fundamentals Revisited
Chapter 1 : Chemical Reaction Analysis
Chapter 2 : Chemical Reactor Analysis
Part II : Chemical Reaction Analysis : Building on the Fundamentals
Chapter 3 : Complex Reactions
Chapter 4 : Catalysis by Solids and in Solution
Chapter 5 : Kinetics and Modeling of Solid Catalyzed Reactions
Chapter 6 : Role of Internal Mass and Heat Transfer
Chapter 7 : Role of External Heat and Mass Transfer
Chapter 8 : Experimental Methods for Solid Catalyzed Reactions: Comparison and Choice of Reactors
Chapter 9 : Gas-Liquid Reactions
Chapter 10 : Experimental Methods for Gas-Liquid Reactions: Comparison and Choice of Reactors
Chapter 11 : Gas-Solid Reactions
Chapter 12 : Three-Phase Reactions
Chapter 13 : Kinetic Modeling Using Atomic and Molecular Simulation
Part III : Chemical Reactor Analysis : Building on the Fundamentals
Chapter 14 : Classification oflndustrial Reactors
Chapter 15 : Homogeneous Reactor Design
Chapter 16 : Design of Solid Catalyzed Fluid Phase Reactors
Chapter 17 : Design of Gas-Liquid Reactors
Chapter 18 : Design of Three-Phase Reactors
Chapter 19 : Estimation of Design Parameters for Major Reactor Types and Their Experimental Determination
Chapter 20 : Introduction to Reactor Design Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Index