Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering

This book discusses research and design problems, simplifying reactor design considerations such as choice of reactor configuration, optimization, and scaleup, and modern surface analysis techniques for interpreting catalytic phenomena, and deciding on the most advantageous method for the selection, testing, development, and application of catalysts. It also covers how to develop models and formulate design strategies for gas-solid catalytic and noncatalytic reactions, overcoming such obstacles as complex hydrodynamics and inaccurate chemical kinetics in the modeling of fixed-bed catalytic processes.