The Definitive, Fully Updated Guide to Solving Real-World Chemical Reaction Engineering Problems
For decades, H. Scott Fogler’s Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering has been the world’s dominant text for courses in chemical reaction engineering. Now, Fogler has created a new, completely updated sixth edition of his internationally respected book. The result is a refined book that contains new examples and problems, as well as an updated companion Web site. More than ever, Fogler has successfully integrated text, visuals, and computer simulations to help both undergraduate and graduate students master all of the field’s fundamentals. As always, he links theory to practice through many relevant examples, ranging from standard isothermal and non-isothermal reactor design to applications, such as solar energy, blood clotting, drug delivery, and computer chip manufacturing.
To promote the transfer of key skills to real-life settings, Fogler presents the following three styles of problems:
- Straightforward problems that reinforce the principles of chemical reaction engineering
- Living Example Problems (LEPs) that allow students to rapidly explore the issues and look for optimal solutions
- Open-ended problems that encourage students to practice creative problem-solving skills
About the Web Site
The companion Web site offers extensive enrichment opportunities and additional content, including
- Complete PowerPoint slides for lecture notes for chemical reaction engineering classes.
- Links to additional software, including POLYMATH™, Matlab™, Wolfram Mathematica™, AspenTech™, and COMSOL™.
- Interactive learning resources linked to each chapter, including Learning Objectives, Summary Notes, Web Modules, Interactive Computer Games, Solved Problems, FAQs, additional homework problems, and links to Learncheme.
- Living Example Problems that provide more than eighty interactive simulations, allowing students to explore the examples and ask “what-if” questions. The LEPs are unique to this book.
- Professional Reference Shelf, which includes advanced content on reactors, weighted least squares, experimental planning, laboratory reactors, pharmacokinetics, wire gauze reactors, trickle bed reactors, fluidized bed reactors, CVD boat reactors, detailed explanations of key derivations, and more.
- Problem-solving strategies and insights on creative and critical thinking.
Chapter 1: Mole Balances
1.1 The Rate of Reaction, –rA
1.2 The General Mole Balance Equation
1.3 Batch Reactors (BRs)
1.4 Continuous-Flow Reactors
1.5 Industrial Reactors
Chapter 2: Conversion and Reactor Sizing
2.1 Definition of Conversion
2.2 Batch Reactor Design Equations
2.3 Design Equations for Flow Reactors
2.4 Sizing Continuous-Flow Reactors
2.5 Reactors in Series
2.6 Some Further Definitions
Chapter 3: Rate Laws
3.1 Basic Definitions
3.2 The Reaction Order and the Rate Law
3.3 The Reaction Rate Constant
3.4 Present Status of Our Approach to Reactor Sizing and Design
Chapter 4: Stoichiometry
4.1 Batch Systems
4.2 Flow Systems
Chapter 5: Isothermal Reactor Design: Conversion
5.1 Design Structure for Isothermal Reactors
5.2 Batch Reactors (BRs)
5.3 Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors (CSTRs)
5.4 Tubular Reactors
5.5 Pressure Drop in Reactors
5.6 Synthesizing the Design of a Chemical Plant
Chapter 6: Isothermal Reactor Design: Molar Flow Rates
6.1 The Molar Flow Rate Balance Algorithm
6.2 Mole Balances on CSTRs, PFRs, PBRs, and Batch Reactors
6.3 Applications of the Molar Flow Rate Algorithm to Microreactors
6.4 Membrane Reactors
6.5 Unsteady-State Operation of Stirred Reactors
6.6 Semibatch Reactors
Chapter 7: Collection and Analysis of Rate Data
7.1 The Algorithm for Data Analysis
7.2 Determining the Reaction Order for Each of Two Reactants Using the Method of Excess
7.3 Integral Method
7.4 Differential Method of Analysis
7.5 Nonlinear Regression
7.6 Reaction Rate Data from Differential Reactors
7.7 Experimental Planning
Chapter 8: Multiple Reactions
8.1 Definitions
8.2 Algorithm for Multiple Reactions
8.3 Parallel Reactions
8.4 Reactions in Series
8.5 Complex Reactions
8.6 Membrane Reactors to Improve Selectivity in Multiple Reactions
8.7 Sorting It All Out
8.8 The Fun Part
Chapter 9: Reaction Mechanisms, Pathways, Bioreactions, and Bioreactors
9.1 Active Intermediates and Nonelementary Rate Laws
9.2 Enzymatic Reaction Fundamentals
9.3 Inhibition of Enzyme Reactions
9.4 Bioreactors and Biosynthesis
Chapter 10: Catalysis and Catalytic Reactors
10.1 Catalysts
10.2 Steps in a Catalytic Reaction
10.3 Synthesizing a Rate Law, Mechanism, and Rate-Limiting Step
10.4 Heterogeneous Data Analysis for Reactor Design
10.5 Reaction Engineering in Microelectronic Fabrication
10.6 Model Discrimination
10.7 Catlyst Deactivation
Chapter 11: Nonisothermal Reactor Design–The Steady State Energy Balance and Adiabatic PFR Applications
11.1 Rationale
11.2 The Energy Balance
11.3 The User Friendly Energy Balance Equations
11.4 Adiabatic Operation
11.5 Adiabatic Equilibrium Conversion and Reactor Staging
11.6 Optimum Feed Temperature
Chapter 12: Steady-State Nonisothermal Reactor Design—Flow Reactors with Heat Exchange
12.1 Steady-State Tubular Reactor with Heat Exchange
12.2 Balance on the Heat Transfer Fluid
12.3 Algorithm for PFR/PBR Design with Heat Effects
12.4 CSTR with Heat Effects
12.5 Multiple Steady States (MSS)
12.6 Nonisothermal Multiple Chemical Reactions
12.7 Safety
Chapter 13: Unsteady-State Nonisothermal Reactor Design
13.1 The Unsteady-State Energy Balance
13.2 Energy Balance on Batch Reactors
13.3 Semibatch Reactors with a Heat Exchanger
13.4 Unsteady Operation of a CSTR
13.5 Nonisothermal Multiple Reactions
Chapter 14: External Diffusion Effects on Heterogeneous Reactions.
14.1Diffusion Fundamentals
14.2 Binary Diffusion
14.3 External Resistance to Mass Transfer
14.4 What If . . . ? (Parameter Sensitivity)
14.5 The Shrinking Core Model
Chapter 15: Diffusion and Reaction.
15.1 Diffusion and Reaction in Spherical Catalyst Pellets
15.2 Internal Effectiveness Factor
15.3 Falsified Kinetics
15.4 Overall Effectiveness Factor
15.5 Estimation of Diffusion- and Reaction-Limited Regimes
15.6 Mass Transfer and Reaction in a Packed Bed
15.7 Determination of Limiting Situations from Reaction Data
15.8 Multiphase Reactors
15.9 Fluidized Bed Reactors
15.10 Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)
Chapter 16: Distributions of Residence Times for Chemical Reactors.
16.1 General Characteristics
Part 1. Characteristics and Diagnostics
16.2 Measurement of the RTD
16.3 Characteristics of the RTD
16.4 RTD in Ideal Reactors
16.5 Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
Part 2. Predicting Conversion and Exit Concentration
16.6 Reactor Modeling Using the RTD
16.7 Zero-Parameter Models
16.8 Using Software Packages
16.9 RTD and Multiple Reactions
Chapter 17: Models for Nonideal Reactors.
17.1 Some Guidelines
17.2 Tanks-in-Series (T-I-S) Model
17.3 Dispersion Model
17.4 Flow, Reaction, and Dispersion
17.5 Tanks-in-Series Model Versus Dispersion Model
17.6 Numerical Solutions to Flows with Dispersion and Reaction
17.7 Two-Parameter Models-Modeling Real Reactors with Combinations of Ideal Reactors
17.8 Use of Software Packages to Determine the Model Parameters
17.9 Other Models of Nonideal Reactors Using CSTRs and PFRs
17.10 Applications to Pharmacokinetic Modeling
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