Educational guide 2018_19 School of Chemical Engineering

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Homogeneous reactors	Application of the equations of change to homogeneous reactors: Tubular reactors in turbulent and laminar flow Reduction to ideal flow reactor: plug flow and perfectly mixed reactors.
The equations of change of mass, energy and momentum	Review of the fundamental microscopic balances of mass, energy and momentum, and their application to reactor design. Numerical solution of the microscopic balances: introduction to COMOSL multiphisics
Reactions in heterogeneous systems: application to solid catalysts and reactive membranes	Interfacial mass and energy transport in heterogeneous catalysts. Mass and energy transfer coefficients. Internal transport and reaction inside porous materials: catalyst pellets and catalytic membranes. Definition of internal effectiveness factors and global effectiveness factors and analytical solutions in simple situations. Numerical solution of generalized systems with multiple simultaneous reactions.
Design of biphasic catalytic reactors (S-G and S-L)	Packed bed catalytic reactor Fluidized bed reactor Monoliths and catalytic-wall reactors
Design of multiphasic catalytic reactors (GLS)	A generalized model for GLS catalytic reactors. Application to bubble column slurry reactors and trickle-bed reactors. Stirred tank slurry reactors. GLS reactors based on catalyst monoliths
Introduction to process intensification through reactor design	Reactive distillation. Membrane reactors. Microfluidics and microreactors