CL3030:03
Reactor Design
Townsville
39 lectures, 39 hours tutorials and laboratory sessions. Second semester.
Available to level 3 chemical engineering and industrial chemistry students.
Introductory definitions, chemical reaction equilibria and analysis of homogenous rate equations. Analysis of rate data and formulation of rate equations and reaction mechanisms. Fundamentals of ideal reactor behaviour and design of ideal batch, completely mixed and plug-flow reactors for single and multiple reactions. Adiabatic and non-adiabatic reactions. Thermal stability of reactors. Chemical factors affecting reactor choice. Deviations from ideal reactor performance, residence time distribution, reactor modelling. Simultaneous mass and energy balances in design of homogenous reactions. Catalytic solid-fluid reactions including heat and mass transfer effects, diffusion and reaction in porous catalysts. Fixed and fluidised bed reactor design. Reactor design case study.
Learning Objectives:
- to provide the students with the ability to analyse raw data and determine the chemical reaction rate parameters;
- to provide the students with the theory governing chemical reaction processes (both homogeneous and heterogeneous) and transport phenomena occurring within reactors;
- to apply this knowledge to reactor design.
Assessment by examination (50%-70%); on-course assessment (30%-50%).
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