Inhalt
[ 491CHPEACRV19 ] VL Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering
|
|
|
|
 |
| Workload |
Education level |
Study areas |
Responsible person |
Hours per week |
Coordinating university |
| 1,5 ECTS |
M1 - Master's programme 1. year |
Chemistry |
Oliver Brüggemann |
1 hpw |
Johannes Kepler University Linz |
|
|
|
| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Chemistry and Chemical Technology (CCT) 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| This lecture provides advanced knowledge of chemical reaction engineering. On an advanced level, students learn how to calculate mass balances, heat balances, conversions and residence times for chemical reactions in typical chemical reactors: batch reactor (BR), plug flow reactor (PFR), and continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR). The course covers both ideal and non-ideal, i.e. real behaviors of such reactors.
|
|
| Skills |
Knowledge |
| After completion of the course, students will be able to
- Understand the characteristics of batch reactor (BR), plug flow reactor (PFR), continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and their correlations [k1, k2, k3].
- Understand and calculate mass balances in typical chemical reactors on an advanced level [k2, k3].
- Understand and calculate heat balances in typical chemical reactors on an advanced level [k2, k3].
- Compare ideal with real chemical reactors, analyze and evaluate their differences [k2, k3, k4, k5].
|
- Calculation of mass balances: design equations, calculation of reactor volumes and residence times for batch reactor (BR), plug flow reactor (PFR), continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR), for positive and negative order reactions.
- Reactor types: How are BR, PFR and CSTR related: PFR as a migrating BR, infinite cascade of CSTRS as a PFR; CSTRs of equal and different volumes in series/cascades; connecting PFR and CSTR in a series; recycle reactor.
- Calculation of heat balances and temperature effects for BR, PFR and CSTR: reversible vs. irreversible reactions, exothermic vs. endothermic reactions, stability of reactors, steady-state multiplicity in CSTRs, multistage adiabatic PFR with interstage cooling or cold-shot cooling.
- Comparison of ideal with non-ideal (real) chemical reactors: calculation of residence time distributions and mean residence times, calculation of conversion from residence time distribution.
- Calculation of specific and real examples for chemical reactions in typical chemical reactors, such as BR, PFR, and CSTR.
|
|
| Criteria for evaluation |
Written examination
|
| Methods |
- Lecture
- Comprehension questions aimed at students during the lecture
|
| Language |
English |
| Study material |
a) Chemical Reaction Engineering, O. Levenspiel
b) Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, H. Scott Fogler
c) Chemical Reaction Engineering: A First Course, Ian S. Metcalfe
|
| Changing subject? |
No |
|
|
|
| On-site course |
| Maximum number of participants |
- |
| Assignment procedure |
Direct assignment |
|
|
|
