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CHEMICAL REACTOR ENGINEERING
Contents
Notation /xi
Chapter 1
Overview of Chemical Reaction Engineering I1
Part I
Homogeneous Reactions in Ideal
Reactors I11
Chapter 2
Kinetics of Homogeneous Reactions I13
2.1 Concentration-Dependent Term of a Rate Equation I14
2.2 Temperature-Dependent Term of a Rate Equation I27
2.3 Searching for a Mechanism 129
2.4 Predictability of Reaction Rate from Theory 132
Chapter 3
Interpretation of Batch Reactor Data I38
3.1 Constant-volume Batch Reactor 139
3.2 Varying-volume Batch Reactor 167
3.3 Temperature and Reaction Rate 172
3.4 The Search for a Rate Equation I75
Chapter 4
Introduction to Reactor Design 183
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Chapter 5
Ideal Reactors for a Single Reaction 190
5.1 Ideal Batch Reactors I91
52. Steady-State Mixed Flow Reactors 194
5.3 Steady-State Plug Flow Reactors 1101
Chapter 6
Design for Single Reactions I120
6.1 Size Comparison of Single Reactors 1121
6.2 Multiple-Reactor Systems 1124
6.3 Recycle Reactor 1136
6.4 Autocatalytic Reactions 1140
Chapter 7
Design for Parallel Reactions 1152
Chapter 8
Potpourri of Multiple Reactions 1170
8.1 Irreversible First-Order Reactions in Series 1170
8.2 First-Order Followed by Zero-Order Reaction 1178
8.3 Zero-Order Followed by First-Order Reaction 1179
8.4 Successive Irreversible Reactions of Different Orders 1180
8.5 Reversible Reactions 1181
8.6 Irreversible Series-Parallel Reactions 1181
8.7 The Denbigh Reaction and its Special Cases 1194
Chapter 9
Temperature and Pressure Effects 1207
9.1 Single Reactions 1207
9.2 Multiple Reactions 1235
Chapter 10
Choosing the Right Kind of Reactor 1240
Part I1
Flow Patterns, Contacting, and Non-Ideal
Flow I255
Chapter 11
Basics of Non-Ideal Flow 1257
11.1 E, the Age Distribution of Fluid, the RTD 1260
11.2 Conversion in Non-Ideal Flow Reactors 1273
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Chapter 12
Compartment Models 1283
Chapter 13
The Dispersion Model 1293
13.1 Axial Dispersion 1293
13.2 Correlations for Axial Dispersion 1309
13.3 Chemical Reaction and Dispersion 1312
Chapter 14
The Tanks-in-Series Model 1321
14.1 Pulse Response Experiments and the RTD 1321
14.2 Chemical Conversion 1328
Chapter 15
The Convection Model for Laminar Flow 1339
15.1 The Convection Model and its RTD 1339
15.2 Chemical Conversion in Laminar Flow Reactors 1345
Chapter 16
Earliness of Mixing, Segregation and RTD 1350
16.1 Self-mixing of a Single Fluid 1350
16.2 Mixing of Two Miscible Fluids 1361
Part 111
Reactions Catalyzed by Solids 1367
Chapter 17
Heterogeneous Reactions - Introduction 1369
Chapter 18
Solid Catalyzed Reactions 1376
18.1 The Rate Equation for Surface Kinetics 1379
18.2 Pore Diffusion Resistance Combined with Surface Kinetics 1381
18.3 Porous Catalyst Particles I385
18.4 Heat Effects During Reaction 1391
18.5 Performance Equations for Reactors Containing Porous Catalyst
Particles 1393
18.6 Experimental Methods for Finding Rates 1396
18.7 Product Distribution in Multiple Reactions 1402
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Chapter 19
The Packed Bed Catalytic Reactor 1427
Chapter 20
Reactors with Suspended Solid Catalyst,
Fluidized Reactors of Various Types 1447
20.1 Background Information About Suspended Solids Reactors 1447
20.2 The Bubbling Fluidized Bed-BFB 1451
20.3 The K-L Model for BFB 1445
20.4 The Circulating Fluidized Bed-CFB 1465
20.5 The Jet Impact Reactor 1470
Chapter 21
Deactivating Catalysts 1473
21.1 Mechanisms of Catalyst Deactivation 1474
21.2 The Rate and Performance Equations 1475
21.3 Design 1489
Chapter 22
GIL Reactions on Solid Catalyst: Trickle Beds, Slurry
Reactors, Three-Phase Fluidized Beds 1500
22.1 The General Rate Equation 1500
22.2 Performanc Equations for an Excess of B 1503
22.3 Performance Equations for an Excess of A 1509
22.4 Which Kind of Contactor to Use 1509
22.5 Applications 1510
Part IV
Non-Catalytic Systems I521
Chapter 23
Fluid-Fluid Reactions: Kinetics I523
23.1 The Rate Equation 1524
Chapter 24
Fluid-Fluid Reactors: Design 1.540
24.1 Straight Mass Transfer 1543
24.2 Mass Transfer Plus Not Very Slow Reaction 1546
Chapter 25
Fluid-Particle Reactions: Kinetics 1566
25.1 Selection of a Model 1568
25.2 Shrinking Core Model for Spherical Particles of Unchanging
Size 1570
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25.3 Rate of Reaction for Shrinking Spherical Particles 1577
25.4 Extensions 1579
25.5 Determination of the Rate-Controlling Step 1582
Chapter 26
Fluid-Particle Reactors: Design 1589
Part V
Biochemical Reaction Systems I609
Chapter 27
Enzyme Fermentation 1611
27.1 Michaelis-Menten Kinetics (M-M kinetics) 1612
27.2 Inhibition by a Foreign Substance-Competitive and
Noncompetitive Inhibition 1616
Chapter 28
Microbial Fermentation-Introduction and Overall
Picture 1623
Chapter 29
Substrate-Limiting Microbial Fermentation 1630
29.1 Batch (or Plug Flow) Fermentors 1630
29.2 Mixed Flow Fermentors 1633
29.3 Optimum Operations of Fermentors 1636
Chapter 30
Product-Limiting Microbial Fermentation 1645
30.1 Batch or Plus Flow Fermentors for n = 1 I646
30.2 Mixed Flow Fermentors for n = 1 1647
Appendix 1655
Name Index 1662
Subject Index 1665