Principles of Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design: New Tools for Industrial Chemical Reactor Operations, 2nd Edition

A unified, systematic, generic approach to design chemical reactors with multiple reactions.

Capability to formulate the design of any reactor configuration with any number of chemical reactions having any stoichiometry and any form of rate expression.

Reactor operations are described by dimensionless variables (in most cases, between -1 and 1) and dimensionless design equations.

The design is formulated in terms of the smallest number of design equations and the least number of terms in each equation; hence, the most robust formulation.

Solutions of the design equations provide dimensionless operating curves (a new concept in CRE).

These curves provide complete information on the progress of the chemical reactions, the formation (or depletion) of all individual species, and changes in temperature (see example on next page). Reactor sizing represents a "point" on these curves (similar to the way a "point" on dimensionless friction factor versus Reynolds number charts is used).

New design capabilities for reactor configurations whose design equations are not available in the literature (semi-batch reactor, filling reactor, plug-flow reactor with distributed feed, distillation reactor, etc.).

A framework for new economic-based optimization tools for chemical reactor operations, and for analyzing integrated chemical processes.