Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design

by Laurence A. Belfiore

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN: 0471202754

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Book Description

Laurence Belfiore’s unique treatment meshes two mainstream subject areas in chemical engineering: transport phenomena and chemical reactor design. Expressly intended as an extension of Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot’s classic Transport Phenomena, and Froment and Bischoff’s Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, Second Edition, Belfiore’s unprecedented text explores the synthesis of these two disciplines in a manner the upper undergraduate or graduate reader can readily grasp.

Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design approaches the design of chemical reactors from microscopic heat and mass transfer principles. It includes simultaneous consideration of kinetics and heat transfer, both critical to the performance of real chemical reactors. Complementary topics in transport phenomena and thermodynamics that provide support for chemical reactor analysis are covered, including:

• Fluid dynamics in the creeping and potential flow regimes around solid spheres and gas bubbles
• The corresponding mass transfer problems that employ velocity profiles, derived in the book’s fluid dynamics chapter, to calculate interphase heat and mass transfer coefficients
• Heat capacities of ideal gases via statistical thermodynamics to calculate Prandtl numbers
• Thermodynamic stability criteria for homogeneous mixtures that reveal that binary molecular diffusion coefficients must be positive

In addition to its comprehensive treatment, the text also contains 484 problems and ninety-six detailed solutions to assist in the exploration of the subject. Graduate and advanced undergraduate chemical engineering students, professors, and researchers will appreciate the vision, innovation, and practical application of Laurence Belfiore’s Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents/Preface/Introduction.

PART 1: ELEMENTARY TOPICS IN CHEMICAL REACTOR DESIGN.

• Multiple Chemical Reactions in PFR's & CSTR's.
• Start-up Behaviour of a CSTR Train.
• Non-Isothermal Adiabatic Plug Flow Tubular Reactors.
• Coupled Heat & Mass Transfer in Non-Isothermal Liquid Phase Tubular Reactors with Strongly Exothermic Chemical Reaction; Thermal Runaway, Parametric Sensitivity & Multiple Stationary States.
• Multiple Stationary States in CSTR's.
• Coupled Heat & Mass Transfer in Batch Reactors.
• Total Pressure Method of Reaction Rate Data Analysis.

PART 2: TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: FUNDAMENTALS & APPLICATIONS.

• Applications of the Equations of Change in Fluid Dynamics.
• Derivation of the Mass Transfer Equation.
• Dimensional Analysis of the Mass Transfer Equation.
• Laminar Boundary Layer Mass Transfer Around Solid Spheres, Gas Bubbles and Other Submerged Objects.
• Dimensional Analysis of the Equations of Change for Fluid Dynamics within the Mass Transfer Boundary Layer.
• Diffusion & Chemical Reaction Across Spherical Gas-Liquid Interfaces.

PART 3: KINETICS AND ELEMENTARY SURFACE SCIENCE.

• Kinetic Mechanisms and Rate Expressions for Heterogeneous Surface-Catalyzed Chemical Reactions.

PART 4: MASS TRANSFER & CHEMICAL REACTION IN ISOTHERMAL CATALYTIC PELLETS.

• Diffusion & Heterogeneous Chemical Reaction in Catalytic Pellets.
• Diffusion & Zeroth-Order Chemical Reactions in Catalytic Pellets.
• Diffusion & First-Order Chemical Reactions in Catalytic Pellets.
• Numerical Solutions for Diffusion & Nth-Order Chemical Reactions in Isothermal Catalytic Pellets.
• Numerical Solutions for Diffusion & Hougen-Watson Chemical Kinetics in Isothermal Catalytic Pellets.
• Effectiveness Factor Correlations.
• Effective Diffusion Coefficients & Intrapellet Damkohler Numbers within the Internal Pores of Catalytic Pellets.

PART 5: ISOTHERMAL CHEMICAL REACTOR DESIGN.

• Heterogeneous Packed Catalytic Tubular Reactors.
• Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactors with Metal Catalyst Coated on the Inner Walls of the Flow Channels.
• Multicomponent Gas-Liquid CSTR's.

PART 6: THERMODYNAMICS AND NONISOTHERMAL REACTOR DESIGN.

• Non-Equilibrium Therodynamics of Multicomponent Mixtures: Formalism and the Stokes-Einstein Diffusion Equation.
• Molecular Flux of Thermal Energy in Multicomponent Mixtures.
• Thermal Energy Balances and Non-Isothermal Effectiveness Factors.
• Statistical Thermodynamics of Ideal Gases.
• Thermodynamic Stability Criteria for Single Phase Homogeneous Mixtures.
• Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer in Packed Catalytic Tubular Reactors that Account for External Transport Limitations.

About the Author

LAURENCE A. BELFIORE has been teaching and conducting research in the chemical engineering department at Colorado State University for eighteen years. He has published forty-two journal papers, five book chapters, and thirty-four proceedings, and presented eighty-eight symposia talks.