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Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers, 5/e
Max S. Peters, University of Colorado
Klaus Timmerhaus, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ronald E. West, University of Colorado, Boulder

Reactor Equipment - Design and Costs

Chapter Outline


C H A P T E R 13
REACTOR EQUIPMENT—DESIGN AND COSTS

Reactor Principles
         Reactor Types
         Space Velocity and Space Time
         Batch Reactors
         Tubular Plug-Flow Reactors
         Back-Mix Reactors
         Nonideality of Reactors
         Accounting for Reactor Nonideality
         Residence Time Distribution
         Nonideal Reactor Emulation Using Ideal Reactor Combinations
         Recycle Reactors

Development of Chemical Reaction Rate Expressions
         Types of Reactions

Reaction and Reactor Performance
         Parallel Reactions
         Series Reactions
         Systems of Identical Multiple Reactors

Reactor and Catalyst Equipment
         Selection of Catalyst
         Types of Reactors
         Selection of Reactors
         Design of Reactor Systems
         Reactor Design Procedure
         Software
         Costs for Reactor Equipment

Summary

Nomenclature
         Greek Symbols

Problems