Chemical Reaction Engineering

This up-to-date textbook fills a longstanding gap for graduate courses in chemical reaction engineering. It explores the interplay between transport processes and reaction kinetics, multiphase reactions and reactors, and optimization and reactor stability. The book includes a brief review of major concepts, describes chemical kinetics and its relation to thermodynamics and transport phenomena, and addresses reactor classification and reactor design for increasingly complex situations. It helps readers to develop the facility to apply engineering analysis to a representative spectrum of industrially important reaction engineering problems.

L. K. Doraiswamy was the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. He published a 950-page treatise on the application of chemical reaction engineering principles to organic synthesis, introducing the new field of organic synthesis engineering. He was the recipient of over 30 international honors and awards in recognition of his contributions to chemical engineering including the Padma Bhushan of the Government of India and election to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Deniz Uner is the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Middle East Technical University, in Ankara, Turkey, and the founding president of the Catalysis Society of Turkey. Her active research area is at the intersection of catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, and thermodynamics. Her present research is focused on energy-efficient chemical conversions, and storage of solar and thermal energy in chemical bonds. She teaches graduate- and undergraduate-level courses in Chemical Reaction Engineering and Thermodynamics.

Part I Fundamentals Revisited. Reactions and reactors: Basic concepts. Complex reactions and reactors. Nonideal reactor analysis. Residence time distribution. Part II Building on Fundamentals. Rates and equilibria: The thermodynamic and extrathermodynamic approaches. Theory of chemical kinetics in the bulk and on the surface. Reactions with an interface: Mass and heat transfer effects. Laboratory reactors: Collection and analysis of the data. Part III Beyond the Fundamentals. Fixed-bed reactor design for solid catalyzed fluid-phase reactions. Fluidized-bed reactor design for solid catalyzed fluid-phase reactions. Gas-solid noncatalytic reactions and reactors. Gas-liquid and liquid-liquid reactions and reactors. Multiphase reactions and reactors. Membrane-assisted reactor engineering. Combo reactors: Distillation column Reactors. Homogeneous catalysis. Phase-transfer catalysis. Forefront of the chemical reaction engineering field. Index.