ChE 641 –Advanced Reactor Design

Spring Semester

 1998-2000 Catalog Data:     ChE 641:  Advanced Reactor Design. Credit 3.

Reactor design and performance with emphasis on non-ideal behavior.  Includes study on non-isothermal, non-ideal flow homogeneous and heterogeneous reactors.  Introduction to heterogeneous catalysis and biochemical reactors.  Extensive application of computers.

 Prerequisites by topic:

·          Undergraduate reactor design course

 Textbook:      H.S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3^rd Ed, Prentice 1999.

 Course Objectives:      Following this course students will:

·          Solve problems involving mixed phenomena: fluid flow, mass and heat transfer, and chemical reactions.

·          Design chemical reactors, catalytic and non-catalytic, for specified process requirements.

·          Include economic, environmental, and social parameters in reactor design tasks.

 Topics Covered:   

·          Non-isothermal reactors

·          Catalytic reactors

·          External mass and heat transfer effects

·          Internal mass and heat transfer effects

·          Non-ideal reactors

 Class Schedule: Two lectures per week, each of 75 minutes duration.

 Contribution of course to meeting the professional component:

·          Required course for M. Eng. and Graduate curricula.

·          Complement to a beginning reactor design course, particularly in heterogeneous and non-ideal reaction processes.