Fogler (Chapter 4) – Isothermal reactors

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Chemical Reaction Engineering

Examples of design of ideal chemical reactors in isothermal conditions

The examples reported in this document are extracted from Chapter 4 of the following book:

H.S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall International Series (2006)

Contents
Example 4.1 – Determining k from batch data.........................................................................................................2
Example 4.2 – Producing 200 Million Pounds per Year in a CSTR ............................................................................9
Example 4.3 – Producing 300 Million Pounds per Year of ethylene in a plug-flow reactor: design of a full-scale
tubular reactor ...................................................................................................................................................... 16
Example 4.4 – Calculating the pressure drop in a packed bed reactor ................................................................. 22
Example 4.7 – Gas-phase reaction in a microreactor-molar flow rates ................................................................ 27
Example 4.8 – Membrane reactor ......................................................................................................................... 31

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Example 4.1 – Determining k from batch data

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Analysis

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Example 4.2 – Producing 200 Million Pounds per Year in a CSTR

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Example 4.3 – Producing 300 Million Pounds per Year of ethylene in a plug-flow reactor:
design of a full-scale tubular reactor

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Example 4.4 – Calculating the pressure drop in a packed bed reactor

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Example 4.7 – Gas-phase reaction in a microreactor-molar flow rates

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Numerical solution

You need a ODE solver. The equations you may write for your ODE solver are reported in the following
(pseudo-language).

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The graphical solution is reported below:

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Example 4.8 – Membrane reactor

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The equations have to be solved numerically, using a proper ODE solver. The equations you may write are
reported in the following in pseudo-language.

Please consider that this example is part of Matlab4CRE (example membrane_reactor). You can download
Matlab4CRE from the following address:

https://github.com/acuoci/Matlab4CRE.git

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The graphical solution is reported below

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