Kinetics - Reactor Design: Multiple Reactions

This course uses screencasts to teach selectivity, equilibrium, and reactor design for systems involving multiple, parallel, series, and reversible reactions. Examples cover batch, semibatch, CSTR, plug-flow, and packed-bed reactors.

Syllabus

Determining Rate Constants from Selectivity.
Elementary Reactions.
Gas Phase Chemical Equilibrium.
Inert Effect on Chemical Equilibrium.
Predator-Prey Model.
Relationship Between the Equilibrium Constants.
Reverse Reaction Rate.
Reversible Non-Elementary Reaction.
Solid-Liquid Chemical Equilibrium.
Batch Reactor with Multiple Reactions.
Batch Reactor with Reversible Reaction.
Isothermal Semibatch Reactor with Multiple Reactions.
Mass Balance for Reversible Reactions in a Batch Reactor.
Multiple Reactions in a CSTR.
Multiple Reactions in an Isothermal CSTR.
Multiple Reactions in PBR Part 1.
Multiple Reactions in PBR Part 2.
Packed Bed Reactor Design.
Selectivity in a Semibatch Reactor.
Semibatch Reactor with Heat Exchange.
Parallel Reactions in a Batch Reactor.
Selectivity in Parallel Reactions.
Series Reaction in a Batch Reactor.
Selectivity in Series Reactions.
Series Reaction in a Plug Flow Reactor.
Packed Bed Reactor Example.