Chemical Reaction Engineering: Beyond the Fundamentals

ISBN-13: 9781439831229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 578 str.

L K Doraiswamy

Opis

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 Beyond the Fundamentals. Part I: Fundamentals Revisited reviews the salient features of an undergraduate course, introducing concepts essential to reactor design, such as mixing, unsteady-state operations, multiple steady states, and complex reactions.

Part II: Building on Fundamentals is devoted to "skill building," particularly in the area of catalysis and catalytic reactions. It covers chemical thermodynamics, emphasizing the thermodynamics of adsorption and complex reactions; the fundamentals of chemical kinetics, with special emphasis on microkinetic analysis; and heat and mass transfer effects in catalysis, including transport between phases, transfer across interfaces, and effects of external heat and mass transfer. It also contains a chapter that provides readers with tools for making accurate kinetic measurements and analyzing the data obtained.

Part III: Beyond the Fundamentals presents material not commonly covered in textbooks, addressing aspects of reactors involving more than one phase. It discusses solid catalyzed fluid-phase reactions in fixed-bed and fluidized-bed reactors, gas-solid noncatalytic reactions, reactions involving at least one liquid phase (gas-liquid and liquid-liquid), and multiphase reactions. This section also describes membrane-assisted reactor engineering, combo reactors, homogeneous catalysis, and phase-transfer catalysis. The final chapter provides a perspective on future trends in reaction engineering.

Spis treści

Part I Fundamentals Revisited. Reactions and reactors: Basic concepts. Complex reactions and reactors. Nonideal reactor analysis. Residence time distribution. Part II Building on Fundamentals. Rates and equilibria: The thermodynamic and extrathermodynamic approaches. Theory of chemical kinetics in the bulk and on the surface. Reactions with an interface: Mass and heat transfer effects. Laboratory reactors: Collection and analysis of the data. Part III Beyond the Fundamentals. Fixed-bed reactor design for solid catalyzed fluid-phase reactions. Fluidized-bed reactor design for solid catalyzed fluid-phase reactions. Gas–solid noncatalytic reactions and reactors. Gas–liquid and liquid–liquid reactions and reactors. Multiphase reactions and reactors. Membrane-assisted reactor engineering. Combo reactors: Distillation column Reactors. Homogeneous catalysis. Phase-transfer catalysis. Forefront of the chemical reaction engineering field. Index.