Course Details

1	Title of the course (L-T-P-C)	Reaction engineering (3-0-0-6)
2	Pre-requisite courses(s)
3	Course content	Kinetics Reaction rate, order, rate constant; Batch reactors Design + basics; Kinetic constants from batch reactor data; Ideal flow reactors Mass and Energy balances; Isothermal, adiabatic and non-isothermal operation; Catalysts, Catalytic rates, Reaction mechanisms; Internal/External transport in catalysts; Non-catalytic solid-gas reactions; Reactor design for ideal flow reactors; Yield and Selectivity; Concept of RTD; Segregation and Maximum Mixedness models
4	Texts/References	H.S.Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1992. O.Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2nd ed., Wiley Eastern,1992 J.M.Smith, Chemical Engineering Kinetics, 3rd ed., McGraw Hill, 1980.

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