10.37 - Chemical and Biological Kinetics and (Bio)Reactor Design
Course Description and Schedule for Spring 2003

Prereq.: 5.60, 10.301
Units: 3-0-6
Lecture: WF10 (66-110)
Recitation: M10 (66-160) or M1 (66-148)
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Introduces design of commercial chemical reactors, emphasizing synthesis of chemical kinetics, transport phenomena. Topics: kinetics and equilibrium -- elementary steps, transition-state theory, multistep reactions. Ideal reactors -- batch, plug flow, well-stirred; residence-time distributions. Transport in reactors -- heat and mass transfer, diffusion to and within catalyst particles. Reactor design; reactor size; modeling of performance.

C.L. Cooney (ccooney@mit.edu), Gr. Stephanopoulos (gregstep@mit.edu )



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