Principles of Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design (PDF)

An innovative approach that helps students move from the classroom
to professional practice

This text offers a comprehensive, unified methodology to
analyze and design chemical reactors, using a reaction-based design
formulation rather than the common species-based design
formulation. The book's acclaimed approach addresses the weaknesses
of current pedagogy by giving readers the knowledge and tools
needed to address the technical challenges they will face in
practice.

Principles of Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design
prepares readers to design and operate real chemical reactors and
to troubleshoot any technical problems that may arise. The text's
unified methodology is applicable to both single and multiple
chemical reactions, to all reactor configurations, and to all forms
of rate expression. This text also . . .

* Describes reactor operations in terms of dimensionless design
equations, generating dimensionless operating curves that depict
the progress of individual chemical reactions, the composition of
species, and the temperature.

* Combines all parameters that affect heat transfer into a single
dimensionless number that can be estimated a priori.

* Accounts for all variations in the heat capacity of the reacting
fluid.

* Develops a complete framework for economic-based optimization of
reactor operations.

Problems at the end of each chapter are categorized by their
level of difficulty from one to four, giving readers the
opportunity to test and develop their skills.

Graduate and advanced undergraduate chemical engineering
students will find that this text's unified approach better
prepares them for professional practice by teaching them the actual
skills needed to design and analyze chemical reactors.