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Questions and Problems 62
CD-ROM Material 66
Supplementary Reading 67

3 RATE LAWS AND STOICHIOMETRY 68

3.1 Basic Definitions 68
3.1.1 The Reaction Rate Constant 69
3.1.2 The Reaction Order and the Rate Law 73
3.1.3 Elementary Rate Laws and Molecularity 75
3.1.4 Reversible Reactions 77
3.1.5 Nonelementary Rate Laws and Reactions 81
3.2 Present Status of Our Approach to Reactor Sizing
andDesign 83
3.3 Stoichiometric Table 84
3.3. I Batch Systems 84
3.3.2 Constant- Volume Reaction Systems 87
3.3.3 Flow Systems 90
3.3.4 Volume Change with Reaction 92
3.4 Expressing Concentrations in Terms Other Than
Conversion 105
3.5 Reactions with Phase Change 107
Summary 111
Questions and Problems 114
CD-ROM Material 123
Supplementary Reading 123

4 ISOTHERMAL REACTOR DESIGN 125

4.1 Design Structure for Isothermal Reactors 125
4.2 Scale-up of Liquid-Phase Batch Reactor Data to the Design
ofaCSTR 129
4.2.1 Batch Operation 129
4.2.2 Design of CSTRs 137
4.3 Tubular Reactors 147
4.4 Pressure Drop in Reactors 153
4.4.1 Pressure Drop and the Rate Law 153
4.4.2 Flow Through a Packed Bed 154
4.4.3 Spherical Packed-Bed Reactors 168
4.4.4 Pressure Drop in Pipes 173
4.5 Synthesizing a Chemical Plant 174
4.6 Using CA (liquid) and FA (gas) in the Mole Balances
and Rate Laws 176
4.6.1 CSTRs, PFRs, PBRs, and Batch Reactors 177
4.6.2 Membrane Reactors 182
4.7 Unsteady-State Operation of Reactors 187