• Basic information
• Learning outcomes
• Contents
• Assessment
• Workload

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. List properties of catalysts and derive catalytic rate laws from data

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Chemical Engineering
   2. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results,
   3. Apply knowledge in a specialized area of chemical engineering and food technologies disciplines,
   4. Formulate and solve advanced engineering problems
   5. Acquire scientific knowledge
   6. Develop an awareness of continuous learning in relation with modern technology
   7. Effectively express his/her research ideas and findings both orally and in writing
   8. Defend research outcomes at seminars and conferences.

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
2. Design isothermal and nonisothermal catalytic reactors

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Chemical Engineering
   2. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results,
   3. Apply knowledge in a specialized area of chemical engineering and food technologies disciplines,
   4. Acquire scientific knowledge
   5. Design and conduct research projects independently
   6. Develop an awareness of continuous learning in relation with modern technology
   7. Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge.
   8. Effectively express his/her research ideas and findings both orally and in writing
   9. Defend research outcomes at seminars and conferences.

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Term paper
3. Analyze catalytic reactors and embed transport phenomena into reactor design

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Chemical Engineering
   2. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results,
   3. Formulate and solve advanced engineering problems
   4. Acquire scientific knowledge
   5. Design and conduct research projects independently
   6. Develop an awareness of continuous learning in relation with modern technology
   7. Effectively express his/her research ideas and findings both orally and in writing
   8. Defend research outcomes at seminars and conferences.

   Method of assessment

   1. Seminar/presentation
   2. Term paper

Contents
Week 1:	Review of reactors, design equations, rate laws, reactions with phase change
Week 2:	Isothermal reactor design, pressure drop, unsteady-state reactors
Week 3:	Data analysis
Week 4:	Multiple reactions
Week 5:	Nonisothermal reactor design
Week 6:	Unsteady-state nonisothermal reactor design, multiple steady-states
Week 7:	Catalysis and properties of catalysts
Week 8:	Steps of catalytic reactions and derivation of rate laws, CVD
Week 9:	Midterm Exam
Week 10:	Design of reactors for gas-solid reactions
Week 11:	Temperature programming and optimization in fixed bed reactor
Week 12:	Catalyst poisoning and deactivation
Week 13:	Fixed bed, moving bed and fluidized bed reactors
Week 14:	Multiphase catalytic reactors, trickle bed reactors Project presentations
Week 15*:	-
Week 16*:	Final Exam
Textbooks and materials:	Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, H. S. Fogler, Prentice-Hall International Inc., 3rd ed. 1999 ers notları
Recommended readings:	Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis, John Meurig Thomas, W. John Thomas, VCH, 1996 Experiments in Catalytic Reaction Engineering, J.M.Berty, Elsevier,1999 Chemical Reaction Engineering, Levenspiel, Wiley Chemical Engineering Kinetics, J. M. Smith, McGraw Hill
	* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.

Assessment
Method of assessment	Week number	Weight (%)
Mid-terms:	9	30
Other in-term studies:	2-4-6-8-10	15
Project:	15	15
Homework:		0
Quiz:		0
Final exam:	16	40
	Total weight:	(%)

Workload
Activity	Duration (Hours per week)	Total number of weeks	Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching):	3	14
Own studies outside class:	3	14
Practice, Recitation:	0	0
Homework:	0	0
Term project:	10	3
Term project presentation:	3	1
Quiz:	0	0
Own study for mid-term exam:	10	3
Mid-term:	3	1
Personal studies for final exam:	13	3
Final exam:	3	1
		Total workload:
		Total ECTS credits:	*
	* ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25. (1 ECTS = 25 work hours)