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Contents
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| Week 1: |
Review of the Chemical Reaction Engineering topics (ch. 1-6).
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| Week 2: |
Review of the Chemical Reaction Engineering topics (ch. 8). |
| Week 3: |
Unsteady-state nonisothermal reactor design: the unsteady-state energy balance, energy balance on batch reactors, adiabatic operation of a batch reactor (ch. 9). HW1.
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| Week 4: |
Unsteady-state nonisothermal reactor design: semibatch reactors with a heat exchanger, unsteady operation of a CSTR, unsteady operation of plug-flow reactors (ch. 9).
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| Week 5: |
Reaction mechanisms: active intermediates and nonelementary rate laws, pseudo-steady-state hypothesis (PSSH) (ch. 7). HW2. Quiz 1.
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| Week 6: |
Catalysis and catalytic reactors: catalysts, definitions, catalyst properties, steps in a catalytic reaction, diffusion from the bulk to the external transport and internal diffusion (ch. 10).
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| Week 7: |
Catalysis and catalytic reactors: adsorption isotherms, surface reaction, desorption, synthesizing a rate law, mechanism, and rate-limiting step. (ch. 10). HW3.
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| Week 8: |
Catalysis and catalytic reactors: heterogeneous data analysis for reactor design, deducing a rate law from the experimental data and evaluation of rate law parameters. (ch. 10). Midterm. |
| Week 9: |
Catalysis and catalytic reactors: reactor design, model discrimination, catalyst deactivation and types of catalyst deactivation (ch. 10).
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| Week 10: |
External diffusion effects on heterogeneous reactions: diffusion fundamentals, definitions, molar flux, Fick’s first law, binary diffusion, boundary conditions, modeling diffusion with/without reaction. (ch. 11). HW4. |
| Week 11: |
External diffusion effects on heterogeneous reactions: external resistance to mass transfer, correlations for the mass transfer coefficient, mass transfer to a single particle, mass-transfer limited reactions in packed beds, Robert the worrier and parameter sensitivity (ch. 11). Quiz 2. |
| Week 12: |
Diffusion and reaction: diffusion and reaction in spherical catalyst pellets, effective diffusivity, derivation of the differential equation describing diffusion and reaction (ch.12).
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| Week 13: |
Diffusion and reaction: internal effectiveness factor, falsified kinetics, overall effectiveness factor, estimation of diffusion- and reaction-limited regimes, Weisz-Prater criterion and Mears’ criterion (ch.12). HW5. |
| Week 14: |
Diffusion and reaction: mass transfer and reaction in a packed bed, determination of limiting situations from reaction data (ch.12). |
| Week 15*: |
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| Week 16*: |
Final |
| Textbooks and materials: |
H. Scott Fogler (2013). Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Pearson New International Edition, 4/E, Pearson Education. ISBN-10: 1292026162. ISBN-13: 9781292026169. |
| Recommended readings: |
O. Levenspiel (1999). Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 3/E. ISBN 0-471-25424-X. |
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* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.
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