ChE 6723 Advanced Kinetics

Fall 2009

 

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Meeting

11:00-12:15 TR, Room SEC E111

Instructor (Web link)

Dr. R. G. Mallinson, Office  Room T322 EC, Ph 325-4378

Email  

mallinson@ou.edu

Office Hours

As available and by appointment

Text

Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering by H. Scott Fogler, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2004

(note that if you use an old copy, problems may not match up and software may not be available)

POLYMATH PROGRAM

Supplemental

(on Reserve or Reference in the Engineering Library)

Chemical Reactor Design for Process Plants, Vol 1 & 2 by H. F. Rase, J. Wiley and Sons, NY, 1977 (Out of Print)

Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, 2 ed. G. Froment and K. Bischoff J. Wiley and Sons, NY, 1990 

           Handbook of Commercial Catalysts : Heterogeneous Catalysts; Howard F. Rase; CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2000.
Grading  Two Exams   20% + 20%
Reactor Design Project * 30% (Pt. 1= 5, Pt. 2 = 5, Pt. 3 = 20)
Class Participation and Class Notes**   10%
Homework   20%

 

* Reactor Design Project is a complete design solution of a heterogeneous catalytic reactor problem carried out by individual students.

**Class notes may be turned in at the end of the semester for review by the instructor

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TOPICS:

 

Exemplary case studies and examples distributed as appropriate

 

Intro, complex kinetics, multiple steps, cracking, polymerization, steady state assumption, rate determining steps, BIO-KINETICS

 

Homework 1

HOMEWORK 2

 

Chpt 7 and Mallinson Butane Pyrolysis paper

 

101 Styrene Polymerization: with polymerization lectures. viscosity and auto acceleration

102 Cracking ; Different detail of complex kinetics

103 Quench Cooler; heat transfer controlled system

104 Toluene Dealkylation; homogenous free radical plug flow reactor

(nomenclatue for Rase case studies)

 

Fogler Example 7-7 

Catalysis, catalytic sequences, kinetics of adsorption, desorption, surface reactions, rate limiting step, LaNgmuir- Hinshelwood/Hougen-Watson rate models, practical basis 

Chpt 10 and Yang and Hougen paper

 

(Probable Exam Point)

 

Mass and heat transport as part of catalytic sequence, interfacial transport, estimation, physico-chemico picture of porous catalysts, pore diffusion, generalized modulus, criteria for limitations, non-isothermal, combined external and internal effects

Chpt 11 and 12 and Kehoe and Butt paper

 

109 Ammonia Oxidation. mass transfer limited reactor design

107 SO2 Oxidation. complex kinetics. intra- and inter-particle gradients. algorithm

 

 Deactivation, Poisoning, coking, kinetics, practical implications, decoking

Chpt 12

 

(Possible exam point)

            

Reactor overview, mass, and energy balances, multiphase reactors

Fixed bed reactors, pressure drop, gradient inclusion, hot spots and runaway, 2D models

Chpt 10, some of 8 and Froment paper

             

105 Shift Converter: equilibrium limit, multiple reactors v. Cost

106 Ammonia Synthesis: equilibrium design. multiple beds, pressure drop v. cost

I11 Steam Reforming: multiple equilibrium

108 Catalytic Reforming : lumping. performance indices. reaction severity

I10 Phthalic Anhydride Production: 2D v. 1D models