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 )