Preface to the First Edition |
Preface to the Second Edition |
Preface to the Student Edition |
List of Symbols |
Fundamentals of chemical reactor calculations / Chapter I: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Material balance / 1.2 The material, energy and economic balance: |
Energy balance |
Economic balance |
Heat of reaction / 1.3 Thermodynamic data: heat of reaction and chemical equilibrium: |
Chemical equilibrium |
Conversion rate, chemical reaction rate and chemical reaction rate equations / 1.4: |
Influence of temperature on kinetics |
Influence of concentration on kinetics |
The degree of conversion / 1.5: |
Relation between conversion and concentration expressions |
Selectivity and yield / 1.6: |
Selectivity and yield in a reactor section with recycle of non-converted reactant |
Classification of chemical reactors / 1.7: |
References |
Model reactors: single reactions, isothermal single phase reactor calculations / Chapter II: |
The well-mixed batch reactor / II.1: |
The continuously operated ideal tubular reactor / II.2: |
The continuously operated ideal tank reactor / II.3: |
The cascade of tank reactors / 11.4: |
The semi-continuous tank reactor / II.5: |
The recycle reactor / II.6: |
A comparison between the different model reactors / II.7: |
Batch versus continuous operation |
Tubular reactor versus tank reactor |
Some examples of the influence of reactor design and operation on the economics of the process / II.8: |
The use of one of the reactants in excess |
Recirculation of unconverted reactant |
Maximum production rate and optimum load with intermittent operation |
Model reactors: multiple reactions, isothermal single phase reactors / Chapter III: |
Fundamental concepts / III.1: |
Differential selectivity and selectivity ratio |
The reaction path |
Parallel reactions / III.2: |
Parallel reactions with equal order rate equations |
Parallel reactions with differing reaction order rate equations |
A cascade of tank reactors |
The continuous cross flow reactor system / III.3: |
Consecutive reactions / III.4: |
First order consecutive reactions in a plug flow reactor |
First order consecutive reactions in a tank reactor |
General discussion |
Combination reactions / III.5: |
Graphical methods |
Optimum yield in a cascade of tank reactors |
Algebraic methods |
Autocatalytic reactions / III.6: |
Single biochemical reactions |
Multiple autocatalytic reactions |
Residence time distribution and mixing in continuous flow reactors / Chapter IV: |
The residence time distribution (RTD) / IV.1: |
The E and the F diagram |
The application of the RTD in practice |
Experimental determination of the residence time distribution / IV.2: |
Input functions |
Residence time distribution in a continuous plug flow and in a continuous ideally stirred tank reactor / IV.3: |
Models for intermediate mixing / IV.4: |
Model of a cascade of N equal ideally mixed tanks |
The axially dispersed plug flow model |
Conversion in reactors with intermediate mixing / IV.5: |
Some data on the longitudinal dispersion in continuous flow systems / IV.6: |
Flow through empty tubes |
Packed beds |
Fluidized beds |
Mixing in gas-liquid reactors |
Nature of the micromixing phenomena / Chapter V Influence of micromixing on chemical reactions: |
Macro or gross overall mixing as characterized by the residence time distribution |
The state of aggregation of the reacting fluid |
The earliness of the mixing |
Boundaries to micromixing phenomena / V.2: |
The model tubular and tank reactors |
Boundaries for micromixing for reactors with arbitrary RTDs |
Intermediate degree of micromixing in continuous stirred tank rea / V.3: |
Preface to the First Edition |
Preface to the Second Edition |
Preface to the Student Edition |