CHEMICAL REACTION

ENGINEERING
Introduction

Le Dinh Chien
chiendinhle@yahoo.com

Introduction:
Traditional Process Scheme
Chemical Reactor Pretreatment Post treatment
Recycle
Utility
Incl. Waste
Treatment
Raw Material
Product
Waste
By product
PROCESS
NATURE AND SCOPE OF CHEMICAL
KINETICS
Chemical kinetics is concerned with the rates of chemical reactions,
that is, with the quantitative description of how fast chemical
reactions occur, and the factors affecting these rates.


A legitimate objective of chemical kinetics is to enable us to predict
beforehand the rate at which given chemical substances react, and
to control the rate in some desirable fashion;


Alternatively, it is to enable us to tailor chemical reactions so as to
produce substances with desirable chemical characteristics in a
controllable manner, including choice of an appropriate catalyst.
NATURE AND SCOPE OF CHEMICAL
REACTION ENGINEERING
Chemical reaction engineering (CRE) is concerned with the rational
design and/or analysis of performance of chemical reactors.

What is a chemical reactor, and what does its rational design
involve? A chemical reactor is a device in which change in
composition of matter occurs by chemical reaction.

The rational design of this last is rather beyond our capabilities but,
otherwise, in general, design includes determining the type, size,
configuration, cost, and operating conditions of the device.

A legitimate objective of CRE is to enable us to predict, in the sense
of rational design, the performance of a reactor created in response
to specified requirements and in accordance with a certain body of
information.
KINETICS AND CHEMICAL REACTION
ENGINEERING
In chemical kinetics, the chemical reactor used to carry out the
reaction is a tool for determining something about the reacting
system: rate of reaction, and dependence of rate on various factors,
such as concentration of species i (c(i)) and temperature (T).

In chemical reaction engineering (CRE), the information obtained
from kinetics is a means to determine something about the reactor:
size, flow and thermal configuration, product distribution, etc.

Kinetics, however, does not provide all the information required for
this purpose, and other rate processes are involved in this most
difficult of all chemical engineering design problems: fluid mechanics
and mixing, heat transfer, and diffusion and mass transfer. These are
all constrained by mass (stoichiometric) and energy balances, and
by chemical equilibrium in certain cases.
References
Fogler HS, Elements of Chemical Reaction
Engineering, 4
th
ed., Prentice (1999)

Levenspiel O, Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2
nd
ed.,
Wiley (1972)
Material Covered
Fundamental understanding:
o Mole Balance
o Conversion & Reactor Sizing
o Rate Laws & Stoichiometry
o Isothermal Reactor Design
o Collection and analysis of rate data
More on..
o Multiple Reaction
o Steady State Heat Effect

Score & Grading
homework & quiz
midterm exam
final term examination
A 4 74.5 ++
B 4 59.5 ++
C 4 49.5 ++
D 4 39.5 ++