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Chemical Reaction Engineering: Principles, Kinetics, Reactor Design, Modeling, and Industrial Applications
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ISBN13: 9798192800980
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 486
Weight: 2.46
Height: 0.98 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 486
Weight: 2.46
Height: 0.98 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Chemical reaction engineering is not simply a matter of knowing equations. The greater challenge is learning how to choose the right model for a reacting system, connect kinetics with material and energy balances, maintain consistent units and rate definitions, and recognize when temperature, mixing, transport resistance, reactor configuration, or scale can change the result. This book is designed to build that kind of practical engineering judgment.
The discussion develops in a clear sequence from first principles to advanced reactor analysis. It begins with stoichiometry, conversion, mole balances, reaction-rate definitions, rate laws, kinetic data analysis, and parameter estimation. From there, the book applies these ideas to batch reactors, continuous stirred-tank reactors, plug-flow reactors, semibatch systems, reactor networks, and recycle arrangements. Later chapters extend the same reasoning to nonisothermal operation, multiple reactions, selectivity, yield, complex kinetics, residence-time distribution, not ideal flow, heterogeneous catalysis, porous-particle diffusion, catalyst deactivation, gas-solid reactions, multiphase systems, biochemical reactors, scale-up, safety, sensitivity, uncertainty, and numerical solution methods.
Inside, readers will learn how to:
Worked examples present the full calculation path, beginning with the given data and continuing through equations, units, intermediate results, and engineering interpretation. Practice problems go beyond formula substitution by asking readers to choose assumptions, compare alternatives, test limiting cases, check units, and judge physical consistency. Figures, tables, chapter summaries, a list of symbols, appendices, glossary, and index support organized study and later reference.
Rather than treating ideal reactor equations as isolated formulas, the text shows how each model grows from conservation laws and stated assumptions. This helps readers recognize when an ideal representation is appropriate and when additional effects must be considered. Attention is given throughout to signs, dimensions, rate bases, limiting behavior, and the physical meaning of calculated values. The chapter sequence also shows how simple reactor models become more demanding as additional physical effects are introduced. Readers can trace the connection between kinetics, flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, catalyst behavior, biological growth, and computational analysis without losing sight of the conservation principles that organize each calculation and support engineering interpretation. The book is written mainly for upper-level undergraduate students who already have a background in material and energy balances, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, calculus, and basic physical chemistry. It is also useful for instructors and practicing engineers who want a structured review of reaction-system analysis.
Add this book to your technical library and strengthen your ability to approach reactor problems with clear balances, justified assumptions, consistent calculations, careful interpretation, and results that can be checked against physical behavior.
Inside, readers will learn how to:
- formulate reacting-system balances from a clearly defined system boundary;
- connect measured data to rate expressions and estimate parameters using regression and diagnostic checks;
- calculate and compare major reactor configurations under clearly stated assumptions;
- couple material and energy balances when heat release and temperature influence reactor performance;
- evaluate selectivity, residence-time behavior, catalyst limitations, transport resistance, and multiphase effects;
- analyze enzyme and microbial systems using the same conservation logic applied throughout the book; and
- use numerical methods, sensitivity studies, uncertainty analysis, and scale-up checks while keeping model limitations visible.
Worked examples present the full calculation path, beginning with the given data and continuing through equations, units, intermediate results, and engineering interpretation. Practice problems go beyond formula substitution by asking readers to choose assumptions, compare alternatives, test limiting cases, check units, and judge physical consistency. Figures, tables, chapter summaries, a list of symbols, appendices, glossary, and index support organized study and later reference.
Rather than treating ideal reactor equations as isolated formulas, the text shows how each model grows from conservation laws and stated assumptions. This helps readers recognize when an ideal representation is appropriate and when additional effects must be considered. Attention is given throughout to signs, dimensions, rate bases, limiting behavior, and the physical meaning of calculated values. The chapter sequence also shows how simple reactor models become more demanding as additional physical effects are introduced. Readers can trace the connection between kinetics, flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, catalyst behavior, biological growth, and computational analysis without losing sight of the conservation principles that organize each calculation and support engineering interpretation. The book is written mainly for upper-level undergraduate students who already have a background in material and energy balances, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, calculus, and basic physical chemistry. It is also useful for instructors and practicing engineers who want a structured review of reaction-system analysis.
Add this book to your technical library and strengthen your ability to approach reactor problems with clear balances, justified assumptions, consistent calculations, careful interpretation, and results that can be checked against physical behavior.
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