Chemical Reaction Engineering / Edition 3

by Octave Levenspiel

Overview

Chemical Reaction Engineering, Third Edition helps students learn how to answer reactor design questions reliably and effectively. To accomplish this, the text emphasizes qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of major reactor types. This approach helps students develop a strong intuitive sense for good design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471254249
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Octave Levenspiel was a professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. His principal interest was chemical reaction engineering, and he was the author of a major textbook Chemical Reaction Engineering as well as numerous research publications.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

Overview of Chemical Reaction Engineering.

HOMOGENEOUS REACTIONS IN IDEAL REACTORS.

Introduction to Reactor Design.

Design for Single Reactions.

Design for Parallel Reactions.

Potpourri of Multiple Reactions.

NON IDEAL FLOW.

Compartment Models.

The Dispersion Model.

The Tank-in-Series Model.

REACTIONS CATALYZED BY SOLIDS.

Solid Catalyzed Reactions.

The Packed Bed Catalytic Reactor.

Deactivating Catalysts.

HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS.

Fluid-Fluid Reactions: Kinetics.

Fluid-Particle Reactions: Design.

BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS.

Enzyme Fermentation.

Substrate Limiting Microbial Fermentation.

Product Limiting Microbial Fermentation.

Appendix.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

An introductory text, emphasizing qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and capabilities of major reactor types. Times is taken to discuss why certain assumptions are made, and to indicate the limitations of the treatment when applied to real situations. Coverage include homogeneous reactions in ideal reactors, flow patterns and nonideal flow, reactions catalyzed by solids, and biochemical reaction systems. This third edition contains some 400 problems, 75% of them new. Assumes background in elementary calculus and linear first-order differential equations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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