Chemical Reaction Engineering

Octave Levenspiel9780471254249, 047125424X

Chemical reaction engineering is concerned with the exploitation of chemical reactions on a commercial scale. It’s goal is the successful design and operation of chemical reactors. This text emphasizes qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. Simple ideas are treated first, and are then extended to the more complex.

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Table of contents :
Preface……Page 3
Contents……Page 5
Notation……Page 11
Ch. 1 Overview of Chemical Reaction Engineering……Page 17
Pt. I Homogeneous Reactions in Ideal Reactors……Page 27
Ch. 2 Kinetics of Homogeneous Reactions……Page 29
Ch. 3 Interpretation of Batch Reactor Data……Page 54
Ch. 4 Introduction to Reactor Design……Page 99
Ch. 5 Ideal Reactors for a Single Reaction……Page 106
Ch. 6 Design for Single Reactions……Page 136
Ch. 7 Design for Parallel Reactions……Page 168
Ch. 8 Potpourri of Multiple Reactions……Page 186
Ch. 9 Temperature and Pressure Effects……Page 223
Ch. 10 Choosing the Right Kind of Reactor……Page 256
Pt. II Flow Patterns, Contacting, and Non-Ideal Flow……Page 271
Ch. 11 Basics of Non-Ideal Flow……Page 273
Ch. 12 Compartment Models……Page 299
Ch. 13 The Dispersion Model……Page 309
Ch. 14 The Tanks-in-Series Model……Page 337
Ch. 15 The Convection Model for Laminar Flow……Page 355
Ch. 16 Earliness of Mixing, Segregation and RTD……Page 366
Pt. III Reactions Catalyzed by Solids……Page 383
Ch. 17 Heterogeneous Reactions – Introduction……Page 385
Ch. 18 Solid Catalyzed Reactions……Page 392
Ch. 19 The Packed Bed Catalytic Reactor……Page 443
Ch. 20 Reactors with Suspended Solid Catalyst, Fluidized Reactors of Various Types……Page 463
Ch. 21 Deactivating Catalysts……Page 489
Ch. 22 G/L Reactions on Solid Catalyst: Trickle Beds, Slurry Reactors, Three-Phase Fluidized Beds……Page 516
Pt. IV Non-Catalytic Systems……Page 537
Ch. 23 Fluid-Fluid Reactions: Kinetics……Page 539
Ch. 24 Fluid-Fluid Reactors: Design……Page 556
Ch. 25 Fluid-Particle Reactions: Kinetics……Page 582
Ch. 26 Fluid-Particle Reactors: Design……Page 605
Pt. V Biochemical Reaction Systems……Page 625
Ch. 27 Enzyme Fermentation……Page 627
Ch. 28 Microbial Fermentation – Introduction and Overall Picture……Page 639
Ch. 29 Substrate-Limiting Microbial Fermentation……Page 646
Ch. 30 Product-Limiting Microbial Fermentation……Page 661
Appendix……Page 671
Name Index……Page 679
Subject Index……Page 681