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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
Chemical Reactor Engineering - AM409018
Title: Chemical Reactor Engineering
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Engineering (409)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Actual: from 2021
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:4
E-Credits: summer s.:4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type: Master's (post-Bachelor)
Guarantor: Kočí Petr prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : M409018, N409076
Is interchangeable with: M409018
Annotation -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)
The subject covers the design and the operation of common types of chemical reactors (i.e. batch, semi-batch, continuous flow, tube) including the description of selected modern technologies (photochemical reactors and bioreactors, membrane reactors, micro-reactors). The chemical engineering description of reactors consists of material and energy balances, chemical equilibrium, reaction kinetics including the explanation of reaction mechanism, adsorption of reacting species on the surface of the catalyst, mass transport through porous catalyst particle, and the introduction to polymerization reactions. The material covered by this subject extends the knowledge gained in the scope of Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry courses.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

Students will be able to:

  • Write up the mathematical model describing the processes taking place inside common type reactors including bio-reactors.
  • Understand the influence of various operational parameters (e.g. residence time, temperature) on the performance (e.g. conversion and selectivity) of a particular reactor type and use mathematical modelling tools to find optimum reactor design parameters.
  • Understand and write up mathematical equations for the external and the internal mass transport and the adsorption in heterogeneous catalysts.

Literature -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

R: Fogler H. S., Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice Hall 2011, ISBN 978-0-13-714612-3

A: Fogler H. S., Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering 4-th. Ed., Prentice Hall 2006, ISBN 0-13-127839-8

A: Davis M. E. and Davis R.J., Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering, McGraw-Hill 2003, ISBN 0-07-245007-X

Learning resources -
Last update: Grof Zdeněk doc. Ing. Ph.D. (28.05.2019)

http://www.vscht.cz/uchi/ped/ichr/materialy/materialy.html (in czech or english)

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/CEAWeb/ceaThermoBuild.htm

http://webbook.nist.gov/

http://www.vscht.cz/fch/cz/pomucky/prednasky.html (in czech)

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

Zápočet: Písemný test zaměřený na řešení výpočetně orientovaných problémů se bude psát v termínech vypsaných ve zkouškovém období. K získání zápočtu je potřeba získat hodnocení minimálně 50 bodů ze 100. Test je možné dvakrát opakovat.

Ústní zkouška: Podmínkou k účasti na ústní zkoušce je získání zápočtu. Student odpovídá na otázky ze dvou tematických okruhů. Každá otázka je hodnocena 50 body, k úspěšnému složení zkoušky je nutné získat z každé otázky minimálně 20 bodů.

Výsledné hodnocení: Součet bodů dosažených v písemném testu a na ústní zkoušce se převede na výslednou známku podle tabulky:

Celkový součet bodů / Klasifikace

0 -100 / F

100-119 / E

120-139 / D

140-159 / C

160-179 / B

180-200 / A

Syllabus -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

1. Introduction. Reaction kinetics. Thermochemistry. Stoichiometry.

2. Reaction equilibrium.

3. Material balances for basic reactor configurations (batch, CSTR, plug-flow)

4. Enthalpy balances.

5. Local material and enthalpy balances, Fick's and Fourier's law, continuity equation, Fourier-Kirchhoff equation.

6. Tube reactor with the axial dispersion.

7. Chemical reaction mechanism.

8. Reaction kinetics analysis from the experimental data.

9. Enzyme reaction. Bioreactors.

10. Heterogeneous catalysis - adsorption, surface reaction, desorption.

11. Heterogeneous catalysis - mass transport. Internal and external efficiency coefficients.

12. Residence time distribution. Non-ideal reactors. Minimum (segregation flow) and maximum mixing models.

13. Membrane, photochemical, and electrochemical reactors, micro-reactors, lab-on-a chip devices.

14. Optimization of the yield of reversible reactions. Reaction selectivity optimization.

Registration requirements -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering I.

Physical Chemistry I.

Course completion requirements
Last update: Grof Zdeněk doc. Ing. Ph.D. (28.05.2019)

Student must pass a written test and an oral examination.

Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 1.5 42
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1 28
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
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