Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design [Hardcover]

This is the Third Edition of the standard text on chemical reaction engineering, beginning with basic definitions and fundamental principles and continuing all the way to practical applications, emphasising real-world aspects of industrial practice. The two main sections cover applied or engineering kinetics, reactor analysis and design. Includes updated coverage of computer modeling methods and many new worked examples. Most of the examples use real kinetic data from processes of industrial importance.Chapter 1: Elements of Reaction Kinetics.

1.1 Definitions of Chemical Rates.

1.2 Rate Equations.

1.3 Coupled Reactions.

1.4 Reducing the Size of Kinetic Models.

1.5 Bio-Kinetics.

1.6 Complex Reactions.

1.7 Modeling the Rate Coefficient.

Chapter 2: Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions.

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Adsorption on Solid Catalysts.

2.3 Rate Equations.

2.4 Complex Catalytic Reactions.

2.5 Experimental Reactors.

2.6 Model Discrimination and Parameter Estimation.

2.7 Sequential Design of Experiments.

2.8 Expert Systems in Kinetics Studies.

Chapter 3: Transport Processes with Reactions Catalyzed by Solids.

Part One Interfacial Gradient Effects.

3.1 Reaction of a component of a fluid at the surface of a solid.

3.2 Mass and heat transfer resistances.

3.3 Concentration or partial pressure and temperature differences.

Part Two Intraparticle Gradient Effects.

3.4 Molecular-, Knudsen-, and surface diffusion in pores.

3.5 Diffusion in a catalyst particle.