Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : CH6200 : Advanced Reaction Engineering and Reactor Design { 3-0-0 / 3}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Prof. Sujit Sen
Syllabus
Module 1: Ideal Reactor Design & Analysis-I: Ideal reactors, Review of isothermal design for batch, semi-batch, flow reactors and Packed bed reactors, Collection and Analysis of Rate Data, Reaction Mechanisms & Pathways, Bioreactions and Bioreactors, Multiple reactions and reaction networks: Yield-selectivity concepts.
Module 2: Non-isothermal reactor design: The Steady State Energy Balance and Adiabatic PFR Applications, Flow Reactors with Heat Exchange, Unsteady State Nonisothermal Reactor Design.
Module 3: Non-ideal reactor analysis, mixing concepts, Residence Time Distribution, response measurements, segregated flow model, Dispersion model, series of stirred tanks model, analysis of non-ideal reactors and two parameter model.
Module 4: Non-catalytic Heterogeneous Reactions: introduction, fluid-fluid reactions, fluid-solid reactions & models to determine time of conversion Industrial catalysis, classification of catalysts, typical industrial catalytic processes, preparation of catalysts, catalyst supports.
Module 5: Catalytic Heterogeneous Reactions: catalytic reactions, rate controlling steps, Langmuir-Hinshelwood model, Eiley-Riedel mechanism, Catalyst deactivation, poisons, sintering of catalysts, kinetics of deactivation, catalyst regeneration Catalyst Characterization.
Module 6: External diffusion effects in Heterogeneous Reactions, Diffusion and Reaction in Porous Catalysts: surface kinetics and pore diffusion effects, evaluation of effectiveness factor, Design of reactors for heterogeneous catalytic & non-catalytic reactions.
Course Objectives
- To develop critical and creative thinking skills related to advanced reaction engineering
- To train students how to select the suitability of reactors for given reaction kinetics for isothermal systems
- To study and design the non-ideal (real) reactors based on different models
- To provide advanced knowledge about chemical kinetics and reactor design of actual reactors, when reaction is affected by heat and mass transfer.
Course Outcomes
To master multi-phase reaction engineering, students need to understand the interplay between chemical kinetics and heat/mass transfer to build and solve reactor models. Specifically, by the end of the course students should be able to: <br /> <br />CO1: Establish and follow a selection process to determine the most appropriate reactor type for a specific process. <br /> <br />CO2: Design the reactor for single and multiple reactions for isothermal and non-isothermal systems. <br /> <br />CO3: Analyse the behaviour of real reactors from experimental data. <br /> <br />CO4: Analyze and design heterogeneous and multi-phase reactors.
Essential Reading
- H. S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice Hall, 5th edition , 2016
- O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition , 1999
Supplementary Reading
- J.M. Smith, Chemical Engineering Kinetics, McGraw-Hills, 3rd edition , 1981
- G. F. Froment, K. B. Bischoff and J. D. Wilde, Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, John Wiley , 2010