Chemical Reaction Engineering: Essentials, Exercises and Examples
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Features
- Presents the essentials of kinetics and chemical reactor engineering for undergraduate students.
- Concise and didactic approach with over 70 resolved examples and many exercises.
- Includes kinetics of complex, enzymatic and polymerization reactions.
- Gives comparative studies of different types of reactors, including heterogeneous reactors.
- Provides a unique part on the application of theory in laboratory practice with kinetic and reactor experiments.
Summary
A new concise and accessible textbook treating the essentials of kinetics, catalysis and chemical reactor engineering. The didactic approach is suited for undergraduate students in chemical engineering and for students in other exact science and engineering disciplines. Each part of theory is supported with a worked example and a number of exercises are included. This book distinguishes itself from the major textbooks in chemical reactor engineering by the part on laboratory practice that it presents, in which theory is applied and illustrated in kinetic and reactor experiments. Teacher support material is available upon course adoption.
Table of Contents
I- Reaction kinetics
1. Definitions and stoichiometry
Variables of kinetic measures
Variables of Continuous systems
Total pressure method
Generic magnitudes
2. Chemical equilibrium
3. Reaction rates
3.1. Definitions
3.2. Rate equations
3.3. Effect of temperature on the reaction rate
4. Mass balance
5. Kinetic parameters - Integral and differential methods
5.1. Single reactions
Constant volume reactions
Variable volume reactions
Half-life methodology
Reversible reactions
Differential method
Differential reactor
5.2. Multiple reactions –series and parallel reactions
Constant volume
Continuous systems
5.3. Complex reaction kinetics
Decomposition reactions
Parallel reactions
Series –parallel reactions
5.4. Non- elementary reactions
Classical kinetic model
Chain reactions
Transition state theory
Thermal cracking reactions
6. Kinetics of homogeneous liquid phase reactions
6.1. Polymerization reactions
Addition of radicals
Determination of kinetic constants
6.2. Enzymatic reactions
Kinetic model
Determination of kinetic constants
Effect of external inhibitors
Biological and fermentation kinetics
6.3. Liquid phase reactions
Liquid solutions
Acid-base reactions
7. Kinetics of heterogeneous reactions
Internal diffusion phenomena
Adsorption – desorption phenomena
Adsorption isotherms
Adsorption – desorption models
Heterogeneous chemical reaction rates
Effects of temperature and energies
Determination of constant parameters
Non catalyzed heterogeneous reactions
Kinetics of non catalytic reactions
8. Catalysis
Selection of catalysts
Activity pattern
Reaction models
Adsorption
Energy diagram
Thermodinamic
Adsorption rates
Isotherms
Preparations
Characterizations
Porosity
Surface area
Termodesorption
Termoreduction
X-ray diffraction
Infrared spectroscopy
TEM
9. Exercises
Solution of kinetic problems
Proposed exercises
10. Collision theory
II- Reactors
11. Introduction
Types of reactors
Notions and definitions of residence time
Traces
12. Ideal Reactors
Batch reactor
Continuous tank reactor
Mean residence time of CSTR
Continuous tubular reactor – PFR
Influence of kinetic parameters
Mean residence time of PFR
13. Non isothermal ideal reactors
Energy Balance
Continuous adiabatic reactor
Batch reactor
Analyzes of thermal effects
Examples
14. Specific reactors
Semi-batch reactor
Recycle reactor
Fixed bed reactor- pseudo-homogeneous
Membrane reactors
15. Comparing reactors
Comparing volumes
Productivity
Yield and selectivity
Global yield
Cases: reaction order
Series reactions
16. Combination of reactors
Reactors in series
Parallel reactors
Rate of production- reactors in series
Yield and selectivity
Examples
17. Hetero-phase transport phenomena
Intra-particle diffusion
Effectivity factor
Intra-particle diffusion
Mass transfer and diffusion
18. Exercises
Solution of exercises
Proposed problems
19. Deactivation
Kinetics of deactivation
Forced deactivation and regeneration
Regeneration of catalysts
Differential calorimetric exploratory
Programmed Oxidation temperature
Catalytic evaluation
20. Multiphase reaction systems
Examples
21. Heterogeneous reactors;
Fixed bed reactors,
Fluidized bed reactors
22. Biomass reactors
Introduction
Pyrolysis of biomass
Nature of biomass feedstock and bio-oil
Kinetics of Pyrolysis
Biomass Reactors
Mass balance
Energy balance
Bio oil and upgraded processes
Hydrodeoxygenation
Phenol hydrodeoxygenation
Anysol hydrodeoxygenation
23. Non ideal reactors
Residence time distribution
Effects of mixture
Analyses of equations of non ideal reactors
24. Practices in laboratory
25. Solutions to exercises
References
Appendices
Author Bio(s)
Dr Martin Schmal was born in Germany and studied chemical engineering at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC) and at the University of Brasil (COPPE). He obtained his PhD degree from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He then worked at Gessy-Lever and started of his academic career at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he became Full Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering (COPPE) and Full Professor at the School of Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has published numberous papers in his career and guided over a 100 Master and Phd students. One of his accomplishments was to put Brazil on the map by establishing lasting agreements and exchange programs with France, the United States, Germany and Argentina Throughout his academic life, Dr Schmal has educated the courses ‘Kinetics and Reactor Design’, ‘Heterogeneous Catalysis’ and ‘Basic Studies on Metals and Oxides’. He designed the textbook ‘Chemical Reaction Engineering – Essentials, Exercises and Examples’ to create an accessible education tool on theory and lab practice for reactor engineering students.
