Chemical Reaction Engineering

Course content:

• Homogeneous and heterogeneous reaction rate expressions
• Characterization of solid catalysts General characteristics of heterogeneous reactors.
• Simultaneous mass and heat transports with chemical reaction in porous catalysts
• Analysis and design of gas-liquid reactors: Mechanically agitated vessels, bubble columns, and packed columns Non-catalytic reactors
• Analysis and design of three phase reactors: Slurry reactors, trickle bed reactors, and fluidized bed reactors
• Non-catalytic reactors
• Analysis and design of three phase reactors: Slurry reactors, trickle bed reactors, and fluidized bed reactors

Course objectives:

The objective of the part of my course is to develop the understanding of heterogeneous catalytic (gas-solid) reactions.

• Concepts of catalysts, catalytic kinetic rate expressions, pore diffusion, and effectiveness factor
• Use of rate expressions in the designing of a chemical reactor
• Concepts of one-dimensional and two-dimensional pseudohomogeneous models