This book mainly deals with the design of flow reactors for homogeneous reactions. ChE CRE is built upon lecture notes of Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRE) that the author has taught at the undergraduate (UG) level. Few chapters are added toward the latter part of the book, dealing with the basics of heterogeneous chemical reaction engineering. ChE CRE is recommended for teaching the upper undergraduate program when the students have been exposed to stoichiometry, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, unit operation, and a few numerical techniques. ChE CRE comes with the audio lectures synchronized with the book chapters and is freely downloadable from the web-link prescribed in the book.
Chapter
1. Chemical Processes.
Chapter
2. Chemical Reactions.
Chapter
3. Mechanism (Reaction Kinetics).
Chapter
4. Constant-Volume Batch Reactor
(Isothermal).
Chapter
5. Batch Kinetics (Cont.).
Chapter
6. Reactor Design
Introduction (Mixed Flow Reactor).
Chapter
7. Plug Flow Reactor.
Chapter
8. Plug Flow Reactor (Cont.).
Chapter
9. Equal Size MFR in Series.
Chapter
10. Recycle-Tubular Reactors.
Chapter
11. Autocatalytic Reactions.
Chapter
12. Multiple Reactions (Parallel).
Chapter
13. Reactions in Series.
Chapter
14. Non-isothermal Operation.
Chapter
15. Adiabatic Operation.
Chapter
16.
Non-ideal Reactors (RTD Study).
Chapter
17. Fluid-Particles Reactions
(Non-Catalytic).
Chapter
18. Catalysts and Catalytic Reactions.
Chapter
19.
Adsorption/Desorption.
Chapter
20. Porous Catalyst (Intraphase Transport +
Kinetics).
Dr. Nishith Verma is Chevron Corporation Chair Professor of chemical engineering at IIT Kanpur (India). He pursued B.Tech. in chemical engineering (1982-86) from IIT Kharagpur (India) and Ph.D. in chemical engineering (1991-95) from the University of Arizona, Tuscon (USA). Prof. Verma worked as Process Engineer (1995-97) at BOC Gases (now Linde Engineering), NJ (USA), before joining IIT Kanpur as Assistant Professor. His research interests include environmental remediation techniques, nanomaterials, catalysts, sensors, and lattice Boltzmann method-based modeling. Prof. Verma is Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. He was Head, chemical engineering department, 201113, and Coordinator, Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, 201113, both at IIT Kanpur.
