The Engineering Of Chemical Reactions

Employment opportunities for chemical engineers are moving away from petroleum and petrochemicals toward new applications such as materials processing, pharmaceuticals, and foods. Chemical reactors remain at the center of any chemical process; they are essential to improving existing processes and designing new ones. Today and in the future, chemical engineers must be able to use their knowledge of reactors in combination with other skills to think creatively and strategically about new processes and applications. The Engineering of Chemical Reactions addresses these issues by focusing on the analysis of chemical reactors while providing a description of industrial chemical processes and strategies. It is ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses in chemical reactor engineering and kinetics, offering a concise, up-to-date alternative. The book covers simple and complex reactor scenarios, energy management, mass transfer, historical evolution, and various applications such as catalytic processes, environmental modeling, and biological reactions.