Reactor Engineering

Full course description

This course builds on the first-year courses Chemical Engineering, Basic Programming Skills and the mathematical courses. You are introduced in the creation and analysis of mole balances for the three elementary reactor models being the perfectly-mixed Batch reactor, the Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) and Plug-Flow Reactor (PFR). Besides a profound understanding of rate laws, stoichiometry, reaction rates and order, conversion and selectivity and function of temperature and pressure are pivotal. Numerical analysis to the design and performance of the reactors and their comparison is adopted for simple and more complex reaction chemistries such as gas reactions, recycle reactors, serial CSTR and autocatalytic reactions.