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Chemical Reactors
Rating: 4.9 out of 5(4 ratings)
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Chemical Reactors

Finally learn how to design chemical reactors!
Created byRenato Carajelescov Nonato
Last updated 1/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Chemical Reactors
  • Batch Reactors
  • CSTR
  • PFR

Course content

5 sections • 44 lectures • 6h 33m total length

  • Review 123:05

    Analyze reactor performance by applying stoichiometry to identify the limiting and excess reactants, compute conversion, and determine outputs of reactants and products in a practical feed example.

  • Review 211:45
  • Reaction Rate6:52
  • Molar Balance - Theory and Exercise 110:45
  • Molar Balance - Exercise 24:38
  • Molar Balance - Exercise 34:12

    Apply molar balance at steady state to produce methanol in a 5 m3 reactor by using a stoichiometric table, with CO limiting, H2 at 50% excess, and 100% conversion.

  • Reaction Order - Theory14:03

    Explore reaction rate and reaction order, linking the rate to k and reactant concentrations raised to their orders, with elementary versus non-elementary distinctions and Arrhenius linearization for activation energy.

  • Reaction Order - Exercise 14:14
  • Reaction Order - Exercise 25:40

    Determine activation energy from Arrhenius data for a second-order hydroiodic acid decomposition, convert temperatures to kelvin, and calculate the rate at 600 °C with 10 M initial and 0.5 conversion.

  • Reaction Order - Exercício 310:51

    Practice calculating activation energy and the Arrhenius-based rate constant in this chemical reactors lecture, then analyze a second-order a + b cstr with a catalyst, computing outputs.

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of mathematics
  • Preferably some knowledge of calculus

Description

Hello, how are you?


My name is Renato and I am a professor of several disciplines in chemical engineering (Chemical Reactors, Transport Phenoma, Thermodynamics, Unit Operations, etc) at two universities in Brazil.


Not always (ok, almost never!) a popular subject in the chemical world, chemical reactors are fundamental parts of the manufacturing industry, so their knowledge, even if basic, is essential and more, it can even be a professional advantage.


The objective of this course is to clarify the vision of students and professionals in the field about the main types of reactors (Batch, Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors (CSTR) and Plug Flow Reactors (PFR)), more specifically regarding the CALCULATION of these reactors (using as bibliography Fogler, H.S. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Levenspiel, O. Chemical Reaction Engineering). To make it easier to understand, we will work with simple and irreversible reactions so that the particularities of each reactor can be explained without other things scrambling the information in your head.


There are 44 exercises solved and commented, including examples and exercise lists, done step-by-step (including integrals and those "mathemagical" steps).


There are 44 questions. Almost 7 hours of, predominantly, solving exercises.


Dust off your calculator and let's go!

Who this course is for:

  • Students of Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Technicians
  • Professionals in the field of chemistry who want to have a first look at Chemical Reactors

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