The Chemical Reactor from Laboratory to Industrial Plant: A Modern Approach to Chemical Reaction Engineering with Different Case Histories and Exercises

Description

This graduate textbook, written by a former lecturer, addresses industrial chemical reaction topics, focusing on the commercial-scale exploitation of chemical reactions. It introduces students to the concepts behind the successful design and operation of chemical reactors, with an emphasis on qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. It starts by discussing simple ideas before moving on to more advanced concepts with the support of numerous case studies. Many simple and advanced exercises are present in each chapter and the detailed MATLAB code for their solution is available to the reader as supplementary material on Springer website. It is written for MSc chemical engineering students and novice researchers working in industrial laboratories. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction to the Study of Chemical Industrial Processes (Elio Santacesaria, Riccardo Tesser)....Pages 1-8 Thermodynamics of Physical and Chemical Transformations (Elio Santacesaria, Riccardo Tesser)....Pages 9-115 The Role of Catalysis in Promoting Chemical Reactions (Elio Santacesaria, Riccardo Tesser)....Pages 117-189 Kinetics of Homogeneous Reactions and Related Mechanisms (Elio Santacesaria, Riccardo Tesser)....Pages 191-290 Kinetics of Heterogeneous Reactions and Related Mechanisms (Elio Santacesaria, Riccardo Tesser)....Pages 291-386 Kinetics of and Transport Phenomena in Gas–Solid Reactors (Elio Santacesaria, Riccardo Tesser)....Pages 387-485 Kinetics and Transport Phenomena in Multi-phase Reactors (Elio Santacesaria, Riccardo Tesser)....Pages 487-553 Back Matter ....Pages 555-561