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

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

Supplementary Reading