Chemical Reactor Design, Optimization, and Scaleup is the authoritative sourcebook on chemical reactors. This new Second Edition consolidates the latest information on current optimization and scaleup methodologies, numerical methods, and biochemical and polymer reactions. It provides the comprehensive tools and information to help readers design and specify chemical reactors confidently, with state-of-the-art skills. This authoritative guide:
Covers the fundamentals and principles of chemical reactor design, along with advanced topics and applications
Presents techniques for dealing with varying physical properties in reactors of all types and purposes
Includes a completely new chapter on meso-, micro-, and nano-scale reactors that addresses such topics as axial diffusion in micro-scale reactors and self-assembly of nano-scale structures
Explains the method of false transients, a numerical solution technique
Includes suggestions for further reading, problems, and, when appropriate, scaleup or scaledown considerations at the end of each chapter to illustrate industrial applications
Serves as a ready reference for explained formulas, principles, and data
This is the definitive hands-on reference for practicing professionals and an excellent textbook for courses in chemical reactor design. It is an essential resource for chemical engineers in the process industries, including petrochemicals, biochemicals, microelectronics, and water treatment.
About the Author
E. Bruce Nauman, PhD, is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has an international reputation based on numerous books, patents, and journal publications. Dr. Nauman consults widely. He was previously the product manager of performance plastics at Union Carbide and the research and development manager of materials engineering at Xerox Corporation.
New to Edition
Includes a completely new chapter on meso-, micro- and nano-reactors that addresses such topics as axial diffusion in micro-reactors and self-assembly of nano-structures
Revises and updates the first edition’s emphasized topics of scaleup, optimization, numerical methods, and biochemical and polymer reactions.
Adds coverage of nanotechnology (including micron-scale reactions) and “the method of false transients” – a numerical solution technique supplementing methods from the prior edition
Features
Covers the fundamentals and principles of chemical reactor design, along with advanced topics and applications
Presents techniques for dealing with varying physical properties in reactors of all types and purposes
Explains the method of false transients, a numerical solution technique
Includes suggestions for further reading, problems, and, when appropriate, scaleup or scaledown considerations at the end of each chapter to illustrate industrial applications
Serves as a ready reference for explained formulas, principles, and data
