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CONTENTS

PREFACE xi

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS

1 INTRODUCTION 3

Chemical Reactors 3
Chemical Reaction Engineering 4
What Do We Need To Know? 5
Industrial Processes 7
M o d e l i n g 10
Sources 72
References 1 4
2 REACTION RATES, THE BATCH REACTOR, AND THE REAL WORLD 21

Chemical Reactions 27
Multiple Reactions 25
Reaction Rates 26
Approximate Reactions 29
Rate Coefficients 30
Elementary Reactions 3 1
S t o i c h i o m e t r y 3 2
Reaction Rates Near Equilibrium 34
Reactor Mass Balances 37
The Batch Reactor 378
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