Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
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Journals Name
Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification
Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Applied Catalysis
Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science
Filtration + Separation
7. Make a list of 5 books, including call numbers, which are in the SJSU library related to reactor design
and/or kinetics.
The following table is my list of books about reactor design or kinetics.
Tittle
Author
Call Number
Reactor design/
Kinetic
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Rase
TP 157.P47 2013
Reactor Design
Whitaker &
Cassano
TP 157.C63 1986
Reactor Design
Westerterp
TP 157.W43 1984
Reactor Design
Smith
Copper and
Jeffreys
Yatish T.
Shah
Kinetic
Kinetic and Reactor
Design
TP 157.C64 1973
TP 157 S30 1979
Reactor Design
8. Find two ChE job ads that describe jobs you think you would be interested in and attach a copy of each to
your homework. Include where you found them. Some places to look are listed on my links page of
my website in the local ACS, AIChE, ISPE newsletters or website, Craigslist, and Biospace.com if
you are interested in bioprocess engineering jobs.
Please see attachments
9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using batch, CSTR and PFR reactors? Name an industrial
situation in which each type of reactor is used. See section 1.5 of the text for ideas. Also the
Professional Reference Shelf on page 27 and the supplementary reading list given on page 35 could
be useful.
The following table is table of advantage and disadvantage of reactors.
Industrial
Advantage
Disadvantage
Application
It is easy to monitor, obtain data, The batch reactor cannot run
Medication
and control the process of the
continuously. The scale up process
production that
reaction. The reaction sometime, for large amount production is hard
require high
is predictable and rate of reaction and costly.
control and
Batch
can be assumed to be uniform
certain about
with high conversion and could
product.
produces different products at
Fermentation
different state.
The reaction once established at
CSTR requires continuous supply of This method is
desired rate, can run continuously reactants so it is not suitable for
widely used in
with low running and maintain
small scale reaction such as benchtop industry with
cost. Due to the continuously
laboratory. The continuously mixing agitation is
stirring, the rate of reaction is
require extra energy and might not be required or a
CSTR uniform and the output product
able to do if reaction was too volatile. series of tank
has the same property of the inner According to Professional Reference connected.
reaction. So it is easy to monitor
Self, the CSTR has low conversion
and control reaction toward
per unit volume and sometime with
desired product especially in case poor agitation, by-passing and
of two phase runs.
channeling might occur.
PFR Rate of reaction varies along the
Long reaction tube might cause poor Continuous Gas
axial direction while remain
temperature control or temperature
Phase reactions
constant in radial direction give
gradient.
with high
opportunity to control reaction
temperature