Table of Contents
Part I Fundamentals Revisited
Reactions and reactors: Basic concepts
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Reaction rates
- Stoichiometry of the rate equation
- Multiple steady states
- References
- Bibliography
- Explore Yourself
Complex reactions and reactors
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Reduction of complex reactions
- Rate equations
- Selectivity and yield
- Yield versus number of steps
- Reactor design for complex reactions
- Reactor choice for maximizing yields/selectivities
- Plug-flow reactor with recycle
- Semibatch reactors
- Optimum temperatures/temperature profiles for maximizing yields/selectivities
- References
- Bibliography
- Explore Yourself
Interlude I
- Reactive distillation
- Membrane reactors
- Phase transfer catalysis
- References
Nonideal reactor analysis
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Two limits of the ideal reactor
- Nonidealities defined with respect to the ideal reactors
- Residence time distribution
- Concept of mixing
- Turbulent mixing models
- Practical implications of mixing in chemical Synthesis
- References
- Bibliography
- Explore Yourself
Interlude II
- Limits of mean field theory
- The predator–prey problem or surface mixing
- Mixing problem addressed
- References