Reactor Engineering

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

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Basic concepts, ideal reactors, interpreting batch reactor data - no volume change, batch reactor data - complex reactions, batch reactor data - variable volume and differential method. Ideal reactor performance - batch reactor, ideal reactor performance - mixed flow reactor, ideal reactor - plug flow reactor, ideal reactor - performance comparison. Multiple reactors - mexed and plug flow reactors of identical size, multiple reactors - reactors of varying sizes, recycle plug flow reactor. Temperature effects - non-adiabatic operation, temperature effects - adiabatic operation, temperature instability. Non-ideal flow in reactors: residence time distributions, tracer tests, conversion in non-ideal reactors. Rate controlling mechanisms: film resistance control, chemical reaction control, surface and pore diffusion control, ash layer diffusion, shrinking core mechanisms, effectiveness factors and the Thiele modulus. Kinetic regimes for fluid-fluid and gas-fluid reactions.

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution
• capacity for independent thought;
• ability and self-confidence to comprehend complex concepts, to express them lucidly and to confront unfamilar problems.