Upon successful completion of this course, the students are expected to:
- Select the most suitable reactor and the operating conditions such as flow rate, temperature and pressure running under ideal or non-ideal conditions for simple and complex reactions.
- Identify non-idealities that can be present in operation of single and multi-phase reactors. Develop mathematical models to account for these non-idealities.
- Differentiate homogeneous and heterogeneous kinetics. Analyze complex reaction networks. Given the complex reaction network, derive rate expressions by assessing how close an individual step to its equilibrium.
- Articulate the transport limitations that can be present in heterogeneous/multiphase reactors. Derive mathematical models to account for these transport disguises. Devise strategies to eliminate the transport limitations. Evaluate the circumstances when the transport limitations can be beneficial.
- Design, analyze and evaluate fixed and fluidized bed gas-solid catalytic reactors. Articulate the present day and the future trends in chemical reactor theory and design.
- Use COMSOL to solve reactor problems in more than one dimension at steady and unsteady state conditions.