Students will be able to:

Develop mass and energy balances of reacting systems.

Describe the behavior of chemical reactors on the basis of mathematical models.

Create the model of static and dynamic behavior of chemical reactors on the basis of numerical solution of mathematical models.

Interpret the experimental kinetic data on the basis of kinetic models.

Design the industrial reactor using developed kinetic models.

Students have to pass successfully two written partial exams after 6th and 10th week of the semester. The performance assessment is passed if it receives a grade of E or higher of ECTS grades.

R:Schmidt L D., The Engineering of Chemical Reactions, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2009.

R:H.S.Fogler, Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering,Prentice Hall,2011.

R:H.S.Fogler,Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering,2nd Edition,Prentice Hall, 1992

A:J.G. Sanchéz Marcano and T.T. Tsotsis, Catalytic Membranes and Membrane Reactors

1. Reaction rate definition. Elementary reactions. Systems of chemical reaction.

2. Balances in isothermal reacting systems. Stoichiometry, conversion.

3. Basic models of chemical reactors for homogeneous systems.

4. Kinetic parameters estimation from isothermal kinetic data.

5. Energy balance in reacting systems. Models of homogeneous non isothermal reactors.

6. Dynamic behaviour of non isothermal homogeneous reactors.

7. Heterogeneous catalytic reactions in a gas phase.

8. Mass and heat transfer in porous catalyst.

9. Fixed bed reactor.

10. Simultaneous separations and reactions.

11. Catalytic membrane separation processes and reactors.

12. Pervaporation membrane reactors

13. Membrane bioreactors.

14. Industrial reactor design.

1. web.vscht.cz/bernauem/vyuka/vyuka.html

2. Matlab software.

3. Macrocommands GAUSSIE (numerical integration), SIRK42E (numerical solution of system of ODE) in Excel.

Chemical Engineering

Mathematics