CH62016: Chemical Reactor Analysis
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| Course name | Chemical Reactor Analysis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Chemical Engineering | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-1-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Spring | ||||||||||||||||||||
Syllabus
Syllabus mentioned in ERP
Prerequisite - CH30009 or equivalentHeterogeneous processes, global and intrinsic rates. Mechanism of catalytic reactions. Engineering properties of catalysts - BET surface area, pore volume, pore size, pore size distribution. Development of rate equations for solid catalyzed fluid phase reactions; Estimation of kinetic parameters.External mass and heat transfer in catalyst particles. Stability and selectivity, Packed bed reactor, slurry reactor; Trickle bed reactor and fluidized bed reactor.Intra-particle heat and mass transfer - Wheelers parallel pore model, random pore model of Wakao and Smith. Effective diffusivity isothermal and non-isothermal effectiveness factor, deactivation of catalyst.Ideal and non-ideal flow in reactors; Design of fixed bed catalytic reactor - isothermal, adiabatic, non-isothermal programmed reactors: one dimensional, two dimensional approaches.Reactor stability, control and optimization; Computer - aided reactor design. Transient CSTR analysis, Hot spot equation; Optimization using Lagrange multiplier, Poyntrgins maximum principle.Text Book:1.Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering by H. Scott Fogler2.Chemical Engineering Kinetics by J. M. Smith.3.Chemical Reactor Design and Operation by K. R. Westerterp, W. P. M. Van Swaaij and A. A. C. M. BeenackersReference Book:1.Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design by G. F. Froment and K. B. Bischoff