CL605: Advanced Reaction Engineering
2024-25 autumn semester
Instructor: Ganesh Viswanathan, [email protected] (7222)
· Slot 5 (9:30-11:00 PM Wed, Fri)
· Location Room 112 (old no. 118), Chemical, Ground floor
· 6 credit (Two 1.5 hr lectures per week)
· 27 lectures (14 before midsem and 13 after)
· Holidays: Oct 2 (Wed)
Outline
1. Homogeneous reactor design and analysis-I: Ideal reactors, Review of isothermal design for
batch, semi-batch and flow reactors
2. Multiple reactions and reaction networks: Yield-selectivity concepts, Wei-Prater analysis for first
order networks, reaction networks of general order, Reactor energy balance and its applications to
reactor design and analysis.
3. Homogeneous reactor design and analysis-II: Non-ideal reactors- Review of the basic concepts of
residence time distributions, single parameter models for real reactor behavior, Macromixing and
micromixing, segregated flow model and Zweitering`s analysis of maximum mixedness, IEM and
other models for micromixing.
4. Heterogeneous reactors-I: Gas-solid systems- Review of kinetics of gas-solid catalytic reactions
with and without diffusion limitations, Reactor design for fixed and fluidized bed reactors, Selected
case studies, Non-catalytic gas-solid reactions: review of kinetics; reactor design case studies.
5. Heterogeneous reactors-II: Gas-liquid systems- Basic theories of mass transfer with chemical
reaction model systems and model reactors, Reactor design for mechanically agitated and bubble
column reactors.
6. Selected case studies.
Grading
Midsem: 30 marks (14/9-22/9)
Endsem: 50 marks (11/11-23/11)
Quiz: 20 marks (5 quizzes, best 4 out of 5)
Quiz 1: 16/8/24 (Fri)
Quiz 2: 11/9/24 (Wed)
Quiz 3: 9/10/24 (Wed)
Quiz 4: 25/10/24 (Fri)
Quiz 5: 8/11/24 (Fri)
References
Fogler HS, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, 4th Ed
Froment GF, Bischoff KB. Chemical Reactor Design and Analysis, 2nd Ed
Levenspiel O. Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd Ed
TAs
22D0144 Vashishtha Patel
23M0385 Kartik Kumar Goyal
