Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
Chemical Engineering (2013) |
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IDENTIFYING DATA | 2022_23 |
Subject | REACTOR ENGINEERING | Code | 20695104 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Compulsory | First | 2Q |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
Introduction | The conservation equations of mass, energy and momentum, and their application to reactor design. Numerical solution of the design equations: introduction to COMSOL. |
Homogeneous reacting systems | Tubular reactors in laminar flow and turbulent flow. Mixed reactors. |
Modeling and simulation of two-phase catalytic reactors | Mass and energy transfer in a single particle of catalyst. Catalytic packed-bed and catalyst-monolith reactors. Fluidized bed reactors. Membrane reactors. |
Three-phase catalytic reactors | Overview of three-phase reactors. Mixed systems: stirred tank slurry reactors. Tubular systems: Trickle-bed and slurry bubble column reactors, and reactors based on catalyst monoliths under Taylor and falling film flows. Introduction to reactive distillation. |