Reactor engineering

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	9350-3016/02
Abbreviation	RI
Course title	Reactor engineering
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Institute of Environmental Technology
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Lucie Obalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

• Thermodynamics of chemical reactions. The thermal effect of a chemical reaction. Gibbs energy a
• thermodynamic feasibility. Equilibrium conversion.
• Elementary reactions in ideal isothermal reactors. Compound reactions. Batch reactors with variable volume and pressure. Plug flow reactors for liquid and gaseous reactions.
• Ideally stirred reactors.
• Energy balance, non-isothermal reactors. Optimum working temperature. Adiabatic reactors.
• Multiple steady states.
• Research into the kinetics of chemical reactions. Macrokinetic and microkinetic properties. Principles
• of laboratory reactor design. Kinetic data processing methods. Scale up.
• Real flow. Methods of diagnosing flow hydrodynamics in real reactors. Residence time distribution. Flow models 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 a packed bed.
• Multiphase reactors.

Literature

 FOGLER, H. S. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. New York: Prentice Hall, 1999.
 FROMENT, G. F., BISCHOFF, K. B. Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, Wiley Series in
Chemical Engineering, 2010.
 LEVENSPIEL, O. The Chemical Reactor Omnibook, Oregon: Corvallis, 1979.

Advised literature

 WESTERTERP, K.R., VAN SWAAIJ, W. P. M., BEENACKERS, A. A. C. M., Chemical
Reactor Design and Operation, Enschede: Twente University of Technology, 2000.
 NAUMAN, E. B. Chemical Reactor Design, Optimization, and Scale up, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2002.
 GIANETTO, A., SILVESTON, P. L. Multiphase Chemical Reactors – Theory, Design, Scaleup. Springer-Verlag, 1986.

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