Environmental Reaction Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Environmental Reaction Engineering (subject code 2173514) as prescribed for Env. Sci. Tech · Semester 7 divides the course into 7 units, covering 38 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2173514)Unit 1 Mole Balances, conversion and reactor sizing
- Rate of reaction
- the general mole balance equation
- batch reactor
- batch reactor design equations
- continuous flow reactors
- design equation for continuous flow reactor
- reactors in series
- combinations of CSTRs and PFR in series
Unit 2 Rate laws and stoichiometry
- Rate laws
- the reaction order and the rate law, the reaction constant
- stoichiometry in batch system and flow system
- Design of CSTR
- tubular reactors
- mole balances written in terms of concentration and molar flow rate around CSTRs & PFRs
Unit 3 Multiple reactions
- Parallel reaction
- maximizing the desired product in series reactions
- algorithm for solution of complex reaction
- multiple reactions in a PFR/PBR
- CSTR etc
Unit 4 Catalysis and catalytic reactors
- steps in a catalytic reactions
- synthesizing a rate law, mechanism and rate limiting steps
- heterogeneous data analysis for reactor design
- catalyst deactivation
Unit 5 External diffusion effects on heterogeneous reactions
- Diffusion fundamentals
- Binary diffusion
- external resistance to mass transfer
- the shrinking core models
Unit 6 Diffusion and reaction
- Diffusion and reaction in spherical catalyst pellets
- internal effectiveness factor
- overall effectiveness factors
- estimation of diffusion and reaction limited regimes
- mass transfer and reaction in a packed bed, determination of limiting situations from reaction data
- multiphase reactors
- fluidized bed reactors
Unit 7 Distributions of residence times for chemical reactor
- RTD function
- measurement of RTD, Mean residence time
- other moments of RTD, RTD in Batch and plug-flow reactors
- single-CSTR RTD
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