Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering
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Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering

Volume 3A: Chemical and Biochemical Reactors and Reaction Engineering

  1. 596 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering

Volume 3A: Chemical and Biochemical Reactors and Reaction Engineering

About this book

Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering: Volume 3A: Chemical and Biochemical Reactors and Reaction Engineering, Fourth Edition, covers reactor design, flow modelling, gas-liquid and gas-solid reactions and reactors.- Captures content converted from textbooks into fully revised reference material- Includes content ranging from foundational through technical- Features emerging applications, numerical methods and computational tools

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Chapter 1

Reactor Design—General Principles

Ramamurthy Ravi Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Abstract

A brief introduction to the basic objectives of reactor design and the various types of reactors used in the chemical industry is given. Material and energy balances are discussed from a fundamental viewpoint, and the specializing conditions leading to the simplified equations directly useful for reactor design are made clear. Kinetics, a crucial input to reactor design, is dealt with in some detail with examples of rate equations and how to obtain them from a given mechanism. Special attention is given to obtaining the kinetics from batch reactor data. A systematic derivation of the design equations of the ideal reactors—batch reactor, plug flow reactor, and continuous stirred tank reactor—is provided. Both isothermal and nonisothermal cases as well as liquid-phase and gas-phase reactions are analyzed. Examples are provided to illustrate the application of the equations. The chapter ends with a study of multiple reactions, both series and parallel, in ideal reactors.

Keywords

Batch reactor; Continuous stirred tank reactor; Design; Kinetics; Plug flow reactor
Learning Outcomes
1. The basic objectives of reactor design, classification of reactors, and guidelines for choice of process conditions (Sections 1.1–1.3).
2. The principles of material and energy balances, steady-state and unsteady-state cases, as well as integral and differential balance equations (Section 1.4).
3. The most common forms of rate equations (kinetics) and how to obtain them from a given mechanism (Section 1.5).
4. Derivation of design equations for a batch reactor and application of t...

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering
  5. Copyright
  6. List of Contributors
  7. About Prof. Coulson
  8. About Prof. Richardson
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1. Reactor Design—General Principles
  12. Chapter 2. Flow Characteristics of Reactors—Flow Modeling
  13. Chapter 3. Gas–Solid Reactions and Reactors
  14. Chapter 4. Gas–Liquid and Gas–Liquid–Solid Reactors
  15. Chapter 5. Fundamentals of Biological Sciences
  16. Chapter 6. Biochemical Reaction Engineering
  17. Index