Chemical reactor design, optimization, and scaleup

*Includes numerical solutions and important chapters on bio-chemicals and polymers

THE MODERN GUIDE TO CHEMICAL REACTORS

In the best professional sourcebook on chemical reactors ever written, world-class expert Bruce Nauman provides toos, information, and hands-on expertise to make important engineering tasks and decisions easier. Clearly and in depth, CHEMICAL REACTOR DESIGN, OPTIMIZATION AND SCALEUP provides—

* Up-to-date information to help chemical and process engineers save time, money, and materials

* Decision-aiding coverage of every aspect of selection, design factors and parameters, optimization, and scaleup

* A convenient source of explained formulas, principles, and data

* Numerous detailed examples

* Worked mathematical solutions

* The latest information on reactor design for biochemicals and polymers, as well as other newer and standard substances

DESIGN AND SPECIFY CHEMICAL REACTORS CONFIDENTLY, WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART SKILLS

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Elementary Reactions in Ideal Reactors.
• Chapter 2: Multiple Reactions in Batch Reactors.
• Chapter 3: Isothermal Piston Flow Reactors.
• Chapter 4: Stirred Tanks and Reactor Combinations.
• Chapter 5: Thermal Effects and Energy Balances.
• Chapter 6: Design and Optimization Studies.
• Chapter 7: Fitting Rate Data and Using Thermodynamics.
• Chapter 8: Real Tubular Reactors in Laminar Flow.
• Chapter 9: Real Tubular Reactors in Turbulent Flow.
• Chapter 10: Heterogeneous Catalysis.
• Chapter 11: Multiphase Reactors.
• Chapter 12: Biochemical Reaction Engineering.
• Chapter 13: Polymer Reaction Engineering.
• Chapter 14: Unsteady Reactors.
• Chapter 15: Residence Time Distributions