Educational guide 2022_23 School of Chemical Engineering

Contents

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.