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Chemical Engineering - CHEG 405

Chemical Reactor Engineering

• The rate equation for reaction kinetics.
• Arrhennius equation for temperature effect on rate constant.
• Representing concentration as conversion in rate equations.
• Handling of limiting and excess reagents.
• Levenspiel plots for finding volume from rate/conversion data.
• Design equation for batch reactors.
• Design equation for CSTR.
• Design equation for plug-flow reactors.
• Design equation for packed bed reactors.
• Solve design and operations problems for batch, CSTR, PFR and PBR system.
• Effect of pressure changes on batch and flow reactors.
• Analysis of rate data by linear regression.
• Unsteady state effects- simulation of ODE systems with MATLAB.
• Reaction energies.
• Solution of reactor design/operations problems requiring energy balances.
• Reversible reactions.
• Staged adiabatic reversible reactors with interstage heating/cooling.
• Multiple reaction systems.

Prepared by: Dr. D. John Griffith