Page 7 - The engineering of chemical reactions

Contents vii

Simplified Reactions 1 8 2
Reaction Mechanisms 189
Collision Theory of Bimolecular Reactions 192
Activated Complex Theory 793
Designing Reactors for Multiple Reactions 795
5 NONISOTHERMAL REACTORS 2 0 7

Heat Generation and Removal 208
Energy Balance in a CSTR 271
Energy Balance in a PFTR 212
Equations To Be Solved 214
Heat Removal or Addition to Maintain a Reactor Isothermal 2 1 6
Adiabatic Reactors 218
Trajectories and Phase-Plane Plots 229
Trajectories of Wall-Cooled Reactors 231
Exothermic versus Endothermic Reactions 233
Other Tubular Reactor Configurations 234
The Temperature Profiles in a Packed Bed 238

6 MULTIPLE STEADY STATES AND TRANSIENTS 245
Heat Generation and Removal in a CSTR 245
Adiabatic CSTR 248
Stability of Steady States in a CSTR 250
Observation of Multiple Steady States 253
Transients in the CSTR with Multiple Steady States 256
Other Reactions in a CSTR 257
Variable Coolant Temperature in a CSTR 260
Designing Reactors for Energy Management 261
7 CATALYTIC REACTORS AND MASS TRANSFER 268

Catalytic Reactions 268
Catalytic Reactors 270
Surface and Enzyme Reaction Rates 273
Porous Catalysts 274
Transport and Reaction 276
Mass Transfer Coefficients 280
External Mass Transfer 283
Pore Diffusion 284
Temperature Dependence of Catalytic Reaction Rates 290
The Automotive Catalytic Converter 291
The Catalytic Wall Reactor 295
Langmuir-Hinshelwood Kinetics 298
A Summary of Surface Reaction Kinetics 310
Designing Catalytic Reactors 311