Chemical Reaction Engineering

This course provides a foundational understanding of chemical reaction engineering, a core discipline essential to the design, optimization, and innovation of chemical processes across diverse industrial sectors. The course is designed to equip undergraduate students with both the theoretical principles and practical tools needed to analyze chemical kinetics and apply them to the design and operation of chemical reactors. It begins with the interpretation of experimental data from batch reactors, enabling students to determine reaction rate expressions and kinetic parameters. From this basis, the course introduces the derivation and application of design equations for the three ideal reactor types: batch reactors, continuous stirred-tank reactors (CSTRs), and plug flow reactors (PFRs). The course covers a range of reaction systems, including homogeneous reactions in gaseous and liquid phases, as well as heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Emphasis is placed on understanding the effects of temperature on reaction rates, reactor behavior, and overall system performance, including both isothermal and non-isothermal operations. Students engage in solving real-world problems that require integrating kinetics with reactor design to evaluate conversion, selectivity, and stability. By the end of the course, students will have developed the ability to analyze experimental data, formulate kinetic models, and apply design principles to ideal reactors under various operating conditions. They will also be capable of assessing the impact of key variables, such as temperature,, pressure, and residence time, on reactor performance. The course prepares students to contribute meaningfully to the development of efficient, scalable, and sustainable chemical processes in professional practice and advanced study. 

1. Lecture 1: Introduction and Molar Balances

2. Lecture 2: Mass Balances in Reactors

3. Lecture 3: Conversion and Reactors in Series

4. Lecture 4: Rate Laws and Stoichiometry

5. Lecture 5a: Kinetics of Homogeneous Reactions

6. Lecture 5b: Interpretation of Batch Reactor Data

7. Lecture 5c: Constant Volume and Variable Volume Reactors

8. Lecture 6: Batch, CSTR

9. Lecture 7: PFR, PBR, Semibatch

10. Lecture 8: Analysis of Rate Data

11. Lecture 9: Multiple Reactions

12. Lecture 10: Nonelementary Reactions

13. Lecture 11: Thermochemistry Review

14. Lecture 12: Nonisothermal Reaction Engineering

15. Lecture 13: Equilibrium Conversion

16. Lecture 14: Reactor Stability

17. Lecture 15: Nonisothermal Reaction Engineering Example Problems

18. Lecture 16: Unsteady-state and Reaction Engineering

19. Lecture 17-18: Catalysis and Catalytic Reactors

20. Lecture 19: External Diffusion

21. Lecture 20: Internal Diffusion

22. Lecture 21: Simultaneous Internal and External Diffusion

23. Lecture 22: Diffusion Problems

24. Lecture 23: Residence Time Distribution

25. Lecture 24: Nonideal Flow & Reactor Design

26. Lecture 25: Micromixing

27. Lecture 26: Nonideal Flow Example Problems

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1. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering by Fogler (3rd Edition)

2. Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering by Davis

3. Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering

4. Chemical Reaction Engineering by Levenspiel (3rd  Edition)

5. Introduction to Chemical Reaction Engineering & Kinetics by Missen

6. Chemical Reactor Design, Optimization, and Scaleup by Nauman

7. Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Fundamentals by Rawlings and Ekerdt

8. Chemical Reaction Engineering Handbook of Solved Problems by Walas

9. Chemical Engineering Kinetics by Smith (2nd Edition)

10. Engineering of Chemical Reactions by Schmidt

1. Chemical Reaction Engineering by Dr. M. Haris

2. Chemical reaction engineering by NPTEL IIT Guwahati

3. Reaction Engineering by Raili Taylor

4. Reactor Engineering by Chemical Engineering Guy

5. Chemical Reactions Engineering by LJIET

6. Chemical Reaction Engineering by Linda Al-Hmoud