CH62022: Reactor Stability And Control

CH62022
Course name	Reactor Stability And Control
Offered by	Chemical Engineering
Credits	3
L-T-P	3-0-0
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Semester	Spring

Syllabus

Syllabus mentioned in ERP

Prerequisite -CH30009 or equivalentConcept of stability as applied to chemical reactor systems. Transient behaviour of a jacketed stirred tank reactor. Fundamental linearisation theorem., Liapunov theorem of stability. Unsteady state analysis of a plug flow tubular reactor with axial and/or radial mixing. Study of packed abed catalytic reactor as a multiphase model with the characteristics of steady state multiplicity. Routh criteria and test for stability. Control of steady state of a CSTR system with a feed-back control. Multiple steady states and limit cycles. Distributed parameter systems. Parametric sensitivity for PFR and batch reactor. Hot spot equation. Stability criteria for a packed bed reactor. Text Book: 1.Chemical reaction and reactor engineering by J. J. Carbury and A. Verma2.Chemical reactor analysis and design by G. F. Froment and K. B. Bischoff 3.Process modeling, simulation and control for chemical engineers by W. L. Luyben