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.

To develop critical and creative thinking skills related to advanced reaction engineering

To train students how to select the suitability of reactors for given reaction kinetics for isothermal systems

To study and design the non-ideal (real) reactors based on different models

To provide advanced knowledge about chemical kinetics and reactor design of actual reactors, when reaction is affected by heat and mass transfer.

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:

CO1: Establish and follow a selection process to determine the most appropriate reactor type for a specific process.

CO2: Design the reactor for single and multiple reactions for isothermal and non-isothermal systems.

CO3: Analyse the behaviour of real reactors from experimental data.

CO4: Analyze and design heterogeneous and multi-phase reactors.

H. S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice Hall, 5th edition , 2016

O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition , 1999

J.M. Smith, Chemical Engineering Kinetics, McGraw-Hills, 3rd edition , 1981

G. F. Froment, K. B. Bischoff and J. D. Wilde, Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, John Wiley , 2010