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.
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