NPTEL Syllabus

Chemical Reaction Engineering II - Web

course

COURSE OUTLINE

This is a typical second course in the subject of chemical reaction engineering

with an emphasis on heterogeneous reaction engineering and nonideal
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Catalysis, mechanistic treatment of rate forms and the practical issues of
transport limitations, leading finally to design considerations, form the first part.
Chemical
Kinetics and design of reactors for noncatalytic gas-liquid and fluid-solid
reactions follows, and the last part of the course deals with the subject of Engineering
residence time distributions, and how they can be used to characterize and
design non-ideal reactors.

The course thus consists of the following modules:

Pre-requisites:
a. Catalysis and Kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic reactions.
Chemical Reaction Engineering -I.
b. Transport effects in catalytic reactors (External and pore diffusion).

c. Catalytic reactor design. Additional Reading:

d. Multiphase reactors (gas-liquid and fluid-solid reactions). P.V. Danckwerts, Gas-liquid reactions,
Sharma and Doraiswamy Vols. I & II
e. Residence time distributions and nonideal reactors. Froment and Bischoff.

Coordinators:
Prof. A.K. Suresh
COURSE DETAIL
Department of Chemical
EngineeringIIT Bombay

S.No Topics No. of

Hours

1 Definition and steps in a catalytic reaction. 2

2 Rate laws from mechanisms: rate limiting step hypothesis. 2

3 Reactor design fundamentals and methodology; rate data 2

analysis.

4 Catalyst deactivation and accounting for it in design. 2

5 Transport effects in heterogeneous catalysis: Internal 4

effectiveness.

6 External transport limitations and overall effectiveness. 2

 7 Implications to rate data interpretation and design: Weiss- 2
Prater and other forms of effectiveness factor relations.

8 Overall view of Fluidized, packed and moving bed 3

reactors.

9 Gas-liquid reactions: Film and penetration theories. A 2

mechanistic basis for mass transfer coefficients.

10 Absorption regimes - discussion for a 2nd order reaction. 4

11 Generalization to arbitrary reaction orders. 2

12 Fluid-solid noncatalytic reactions: Shrinking core and 3

uniform reaction.

13 Nonideal reactors: Distribution of residence times. 2

14 Distribution functions used in RTD theory and their 3

characteristics. Nondimensional forms.

15 RTD experiment and its interpretation. Closed and open 2

vessels.

16 Ideal reactor RTD: CSTR, PFR, Laminar flow reactor; 3

reactor networks.

17 Models for nonideal reactor behaviour: Tanks in series. 3

18 Models for nonideal reactor behaviour: Axial dispersion 3

model.

References:

1. H. S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Fourth Ed

(2006), Prentice Hall,New YorK.

2. O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Third Ed (1999), Jihn

Wiley & Sons, New York.

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