Chemical Reactor Analysis
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The official GTU curriculum for Chemical Reactor Analysis (subject code 3713015) as prescribed for CE · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 62 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.
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- Chemical factor affecting the choice of the reactor
- fundamental mass
- energy and momentum balance
- Model for a semi-batch reactor
- optimum operation policies and control strategies
- optimal batch operation time
- optimal temperature policies
- stability of operation and transient behavior for mixed flow reactor
- Transient CSTR analysis
- Hot spot equation
- Optimization using Lagrange multiplier
- Pontryagin's maximum principle
Unit 2 Unit-II
- Fixed bed catalytic reactor: The importance and scale of fixed bed catalytic processes
- factors in preliminary design
- modeling of fixed bed reactor
- Pseudo-homogeneous model
- the multibed adiabatic reactor
- auto-thermal operation
- non-steady-state model with axial mixing
- two dimensional pseudo-homogeneous models
- heterogeneous models
- global and intrinsic rates
- Mechanism of catalytic reactions
- Engineering properties of catalysts - BET surface area
- pore volume
- pore size
- pore size distribution
- one dimensional and two dimensional model equation
Unit 3 Unit-III
- 8 Multiphase flow reactor: Types of multiphase flow reactors
- packed columns
- plate columns
- empty columns
- stirred vessel reactors.Development of rate equations for solid catalyzed fluid phase reactions
- Estimation of kinetic parameters
- External mass and heat transfer in catalyst particles
- Stability and selectivity
- Packed bed reactor
- slurry reactor
- Trickle bed reactor and fluidized bed reactor
- Intra-particle heat and mass transfer - Wheelers parallel pore model
- random pore model of Wakao and Smith. deactivation of catalyst
- Ideal and non-ideal flow in reactors
Unit 4 Unit-IV
- Design model for multiphase flow reactors
- gas and liquid phase in completely mixed and plug flow
- gas phase in plug flow and liquid phase in completely mixed flow
- effective diffusion model
- two zone model
- specific design aspects
- packed absorber
- two-phase fixed bed reactor
- plate column
- spray tower
- bubble reactor
- stirred vessel reactor.Computer - aided reactor design
Unit 5 Unit-V
- Temperature effects in reactor: Introduction
- well mixed system with steady feed
- the stability and start-up of CSTR
- limit cycles and oscillatory reactions
- the plug flow reactors
- tubular reactor
- diffusion control
- prorogation of reaction zone
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