617-0962/01 – Chemical Reaction Engineering (RI)
| Gurantor department | Department of Chemistry | Credits | 10 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Lucie Obalová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Lucie Obalová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | postgraduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | | Semester | winter + summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2010/2011 | Year of cancellation | 2015/2016 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT, FS | Intended for study types | Doctoral |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of subject is to acquire procedures of design and simulation of batch and flow reactors for homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions with examples for metallurgical applications.
Teaching methods
Individual consultations
Project work
Summary
The subject Chemical Reaction Engineering deals with kinetic of homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions, methods of measurements and processing of kinetic data, models of ideal reactors in isothermal and non-isothermal regime and with design, simulation and optimization of chemical reactors.
Compulsory literature:
1) Fogler, H. S. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. Prentice Hall NY, 1999.
2) Westerterp, K.R., van Swaaij, W.P.M., Beenackers, A.A.C.M, Chemical Reactor Design and Operation, Twente University of Technology, Enschede, 2000.
3) Froment, G.F., Bischoff, K.B. Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, Wiley Series in Chemical Engineering, 2010.
4) Nauman, E.B. Chemical Reactor Design, Optimization, and Scaleup, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2002.
Recommended literature:
1) Gupta, Ch.K., Chemical Metallurgy: Principles and Practice. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, 2003.
2) Pehlke, R.D. Unit Processes of Extractive Metallurgy. American Elsevier Publishing New York, 1973.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
They will be specified according to the thesis topic.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Thermodynamic of chemical reactions. Heat effects of chemical reactions. Gibbs energy and thermodynamic feasibility. Equilibrium conversion.
Elemental reactions in ideal isothermal reactors. Simultaneous reactions. Batch reactors with variable volume and pressure. Plug flow reactors for reactions in liquid and gas phase. Stirred tank reactor with ideal mixing. Semibatch reactors.
Energy balance, non-isothermal reactors. Optimal operating temperature. Adiabatic reactors. Multiple steady states.
Research of kinetic of chemical reactions. Macrokinetic and microkinetic properties. Principles of laboratory reactor design. Methods for kinetic data processing. Increasing of reactor scale. Non-ideal flow. Methods for diagnostic of hydrodynamic in real reactors. Residence time distribution. Models of flow for real tubular reactors – laminar and turbulent flow, axial dispersion, cascade of ideal mixers. Macrofluid and microfluid, segregation model.
Heterogeneous catalytic reactors. Kinetic equations for catalytic reactions. Models of heterogeneous catalytic reactors. Effectiveness factor. Pressure drop in packed-bed reactors. Multiphase reactors.
Topics for detail study will be chosen according to the aim of dissertation thesis.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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