Dimensionless variables, definition of
Activation energy 88
Extent 64
Heat 140
Heat of reaction 140
Heat transfer rate 153
Heat transfer number 140
Operating time 113
Space time 115
Distillation reactor 3, 416–425
Economics 441 –453
Effectiveness factor 10
Elementary reactions 26
Endothermic reactions 88
Energy of activation see Activation energy
Energy balance equation 15,
135– 156
for batch reactors 136– 145
for plug-flow reactor 150, 243
for steady flow reactors 147– 154
for CSTR 153, 320
for semibatch reactors 382– 384
for recycle reactor 429
for PFR with distributed feed 405
Enzymatic reactions 175, 331
Equilibrium constant 134
Ergun equation 301
Excess reactant 49
Exothermic reactions 88
Extent of reaction
Definition of 28
Experimental reactors 16
Fixed bed reactor see Packed-bed reactor
Fluidized bed reactor 5
Fluidized catalytic cracking 20
Formulation procedure
of design equations, batch reactor 199
of design equations, PFR 265
of design equations, CSTR 341
of energy balance equation, batch
reactor 216
of energy balance equation, PFR 283
of energy balance equation, CSTR 358
Fractional conversion see Conversion
Frequency factor see Pre-exponential factor
Friction factor 296
Gas–solid reactions 2, 12
Gaussian elimination 41
Generation rate 31
Global reaction rate 14, 91
Hatta number 13
Heat capacity
Dependence on composition 142
Dependence on temperature 143
of reference state or stream 141, 151
Heat of formation 131
Heat of reaction 131
Heat transfer coefficient 138
Heat transfer number (HTN)
Definition 140
Estimation of 165, 244, 321
Heterogeneous reactions 2
Homogeneous reactions 2
Hougen– Watson formulation 10
Independent chemical reactions 39–47
Determination of number of 40
Relation to dependent reactions 43
Selecting a set of 112
Independent species specifications 68–71
Interfacial area 82
Instantaneous HTN 165
Integral method 192
Intrinsic kinetics 91
Isothermal operations
of batch reactors 166–215
of plug-flow reactor 245– 281
of CSTR 322– 358
Kiln reactor 7
Kinetics 9, 81–97
Laminar flow 239
Langmuir– Hinshelwood formulation 10
Limiting reactant 48
Local HTN 244
Mass transfer 9
Michaelis– Menten rate expression 90
Molar flux 465
Momentum balance equation 15, 296
Moving bed reactor 6
Multiple steady-states 18
Nonideal flow 20
Nonisothermal operation
of batch reactors 216–230
of plug-flow reactor 281– 295
of CSTR 358– 370
of PFR with distributed feed 409
of recycle reactor 431
of semibatch reactors 387, 393
Numerical differentiation 469
472
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