Chemical Reaction Engineering

The first English edition of this book was published in 2014. This book was originally intended for undergraduate and graduate students and had one major objective: teach the basic concepts of kinetics and reactor design. The main reason behind the book is the fact that students frequently have great difficulty to explain the basic phenomena that occur in practice. Therefore, basic concepts with examples and many exercises are presented in each topic, instead of specific projects of the industry. The main objective was to provoke students to observe kinetic phenomena and to think about them. Indeed, reactors cannot be designed and operated without knowledge of kinetics.
Additionally, the empirical nature of kinetic studies is recognized in the present edition of the book. For this reason, analyses related to how experimental errors affect kinetic studies are performed and illustrated with actual data. Particularly, analytical and numerical solutions are derived to represent the uncertainties of reactant conversions in distinct scenarios and are used to analyze the quality of the obtained parameter estimates. Consequently, new topics that focus on the development of analytical and numerical procedures for more accurate description of experimental errors in reaction systems and of estimates of kinetic parameters have been included in this version of the book. Finally, kinetics requires knowledge that must be complemented and tested in the laboratory. Therefore, practical examples of reactions performed in bench and semi-pilot scales are discussed in the final chapter.
This edition of the book has been organized in two parts. In the first part, a thorough discussion regarding reaction kinetics is presented. In the second part, basic equations are derived and used to represent the performances of batch and continuous ideal reactors, isothermal and non-isothermal reaction systems and homogeneous and heterogeneous reactor vessels, as illustrated with several examples and exercises. This textbook will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students in chemical engineering as well as to graduate students in and researchers of kinetics and catalysis.

Martin Schmal

1. Definitions and stoichiometry 2. Chemical equilibrium 3. Kinetic of reactions 4. Molar balance in open and closed systems with chemical reaction 5. Determination of kinetic parameters 6. Kinetics of multiple reactions 7. Non-elementary reactions 8. Polymerization reactions 9. Kinetics of liquid-phase reactions 10. Heterogeneous reaction kinetics 11. Parameter estimation 12. Experimental designs 13. Kinetic exercises 14. Elementary concepts of the collision theory 15. Ideal reactors 16. Specific reactors 17. Comparing reactors 18. Combination of reactors 19. Transport phenomena in heterogeneous systems 20. Multiphase reacting systems 21. Heterogeneous reactors 22. Deactivation 23. Reactor exercises