Chemical Reaction Engineering: Essentials, Exercises and Examples

698 Pages·2014·4.45 MB·English

by  Martin Schmal

Chemical Reaction Engineering: Essentials, Exercises and Examples presents
the essentials of kinetics, reactor design and chemical reaction engineering for
undergraduate students. Concise and didactic in its approach, it features over 70
resolved examples and many exercises.
The work is organized in two parts: in the first part kinetics is presented focusing on
the reaction rates, the influence of different variables and the determination of specific
rate parameters for different reactions both homogeneous and heterogeneous. This
section is complemented with the classical kinetic theory and in particular with
many examples and exercises. The second part introduces students to the distinction
between ideal and non-ideal reactors and presents the basic equations of batch and
continuous ideal reactors, as well as specific isothermal and non-isothermal systems.
The main emphasis however is on both qualitative and quantitative interpretation
by comparing and combining reactors with and without diffusion and mass transfer
effects, complemented with several examples and exercises. Finally, non-ideal and
multiphase systems are presented, as well as specific topics of biomass thermal
processes and heterogeneous reactor analyses. The work closes with a unique
section on the application of theory in laboratory practice with kinetic and reactor
experiments.
This textbook will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students in
chemical engineering as well as to graduate students in and researchers of kinetics
and catalysis.

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Chemical Reaction Engineering

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Martin Schmal

Essentials, Exercises and Examples

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Chemical Reaction Engineering

Essentials, Exercises and Examples

Martin Schmal
Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of
Rio de Janeiro – COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil

CRC Press/Balkema is an imprint of theTaylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Originally published in Portuguese as “Cinética e Reatores: Aplicação à Engenharia Química’’
by Synergia Editora
© 2010 Martin Schmal

Translators:
Fabio Souza Toniolo
Carlos Alberto Castor Jr.
João Paulo Bassin
Martin Schmal

© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Schmal, Martin.
Chemical reaction engineering : essentials, exercises and examples / Martin Schmal.
pages cm
Summary: “A new concise and accessible textbook treating the essentials of kinetics,
catalysis and chemical reactor engineering. The didactic approach is suited for undergraduate
students in chemical engineering and for students in other exact science and engineering
disciplines. Each part of theory is supported with a worked example and a number of exercises
are included. This book distinguishes itself from the major textbooks in chemical reactor
engineering by the part on laboratory practice that it presents, in which theory is applied and
illustrated in kinetic and reactor experiments. Teacher support material is available upon
course adoption’’—Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-69538-1 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-203-14563-0 (ebook PDF)
1. Chemical engineering—Textbooks.
2. Chemical reactions—Textbooks.
3. Chemical
reactors—Textbooks.
I. Title.
TP155.S26
2014
660—dc23
2013048002

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