Multiphase Reactors: Reaction Engineering Concepts, Selection, and Industrial Applications

Description

This Multiphase Reactors book is about fundamentals, selection, design, development (scale-up) and applications of two- and three-phase reactors. It is a graduate textbook focused on creating understanding of the fundamentals, as much as possible without resorting to mathematics. It also is full of real-life industrial applications and examples from the authors’ own experiences. The target audience comprises students and industrial practitioners who may or may not have had formal training in chemical reaction engineering. Each chapter explains the subject and contains take home messages, examples, worked out cases, quiz questions, and exercises. Contents Preface About the authors Part A: Multiphase reactors: chemical reaction engineering 1 Introduction 2 Overview of multiphase reactors Part B: Fundamentals 3 Scale-independent basics relevant for all reactors 4 Residence time distribution and mixing theory 5 Inter- and intraphase mass and heat transfer 6 Quantification of mass transfer in G-L(-S) reactors 7 Heat management 8 Multiphase reactor modeling Part C: Stage-gate innovation methods 9 Stage-gate innovation methods 10 Multiphase reactor selection 11 New reaction systems through all innovation stages Part D: Education 12 Education guidelines 13 Industrial cases 14 Education case study: polyolefin CRE and scale-up Index