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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Chemical Reaction Engineering

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 617-0962/01
Abbreviation RI
Course title Chemical Reaction Engineering
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Chemistry
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Lucie Obalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Thermodynamic of chemical reactions. Heat effects of chemical reactions. Gibbs energy and thermodynamic feasibility. Equilibrium conversion.
Elemental reactions in ideal isothermal reactors. Simultaneous reactions. Batch reactors with variable volume and pressure. Plug flow reactors for reactions in liquid and gas phase. Stirred tank reactor with ideal mixing. Semibatch reactors.
Energy balance, non-isothermal reactors. Optimal operating temperature. Adiabatic reactors. Multiple steady states.
Research of kinetic of chemical reactions. Macrokinetic and microkinetic properties. Principles of laboratory reactor design. Methods for kinetic data processing. Increasing of reactor scale. Non-ideal flow. Methods for diagnostic of hydrodynamic in real reactors. Residence time distribution. Models of flow for real tubular reactors – laminar and turbulent flow, axial dispersion, cascade of ideal mixers. Macrofluid and microfluid, segregation model.
Heterogeneous catalytic reactors. Kinetic equations for catalytic reactions. Models of heterogeneous catalytic reactors. Effectiveness factor. Pressure drop in packed-bed reactors. Multiphase reactors.

Topics for detail study will be chosen according to the aim of dissertation thesis.

Literature

1) Fogler, H. S. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. Prentice Hall NY, 1999.
2) Westerterp, K.R., van Swaaij, W.P.M., Beenackers, A.A.C.M, Chemical Reactor Design and Operation, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, 2000.
3) Froment, G.F., Bischoff, K.B. Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, Wiley Series in Chemical Engineering, 2010.
4) Nauman, E.B. Chemical Reactor Design, Optimization, and Scaleup, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2002.

Advised literature

1) Gupta, Ch.K., Chemical Metallurgy: Principles and Practice. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, 2003.
2) Pehlke, R.D. Unit Processes of Extractive Metallurgy. American Elsevier Publishing New York, 1973.