Introduction to Reaction Engineering

Recommended Prerequisites

Mass and Energy Balances, Fluid Dynamis, Heat Transfer.

Teaching Methods

The syllabus will be taught in contact lectures with practical examples and discussion of the problems solved by the students. Whenever possible, the resolution of home problems or in classroom will be proposed to studants, aiming to promote a continued study.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims the development of competences in the domain of Chemical Reactors Engineering with ideal behavior, aiming the analysis and design of homogeneous reactors, including reactional systems for kinetic parameters determination. In what regards the analysis of the behaviour of ideal chemical reactors, an introduction will be given to the case of the continuous tank strirred reactor.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Introduction: chemical reactions classification; basic concepts definition.

- Caracterization of the reaction medium: Equation of a reaction; determination of the number of independent reactions; conversion of a reactant; generalized advance of chemical reactions; reaction volume variation

- Chemical reaction kinetics and analysis of kinetic data;

- Multiple chemical reactions: concept of yield, selectivity and parasites fraction.

- Introduction to ideal chemical reactors: continuous tank stirred reactor (mass and energetic balances in trasient and steady state).

Head Lecturer(s)

Cristina Maria dos Santos Gaudêncio Baptista

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Frequency: 80.0%

Bibliography

Portal Laboratórios Virtuais de Processos Químicos, DEQ-FCTUC, http://labvirtual.eq.uc.pt

Fogler, H.S. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. 5th ed., Prentice-Hall, N.J. 2016.

 Lemos, F.; Lopes, J. M.; Ramôa Ribeiro, F. Reactores Químicos. IST Press, Lisboa, 2002.

Nunes dos Santos, A. M. Reactores Químicos. Vol.I, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa,1990.

 Levenspiel, O. Chemical Reaction Engineering. 3rd ed. John Wiley, New York, 1999.

Cooper, A.R.; Jeffreys, G. V. Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design. Olivier and Boyd, Edinburg, 1971.

Aris, R. Elementary Chemical Reactor Analysis, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1986.

Villermaux, J. Génie de la Réaction Chimique. Lavoisier, Paris, 1982. Smith, J. M. Chemical Engineering Kinetics. McGraw- Hill, New York, 1970.