Design of Reaction Engineering Experiment

Design an experimeitt to be used in the undergraduate laboratory that costs less than 500 to build. 

The experiment is to be used in the imdergraduate laboratory and cost less than 500 to build. The judging criteria are the same as the criteria for the National AlChE Student Chapter Competition. The design is to be displayed on a poster board and explained to a panel of judges. Guidelines for the poster board display are provided by Jaek Fishman and are given on the CD-ROM. 

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It is the purpose of this article to present in its entirety one of the early applications of reaction engineering, which was well under way in 1952 before the name Reaction Engineering was even coined. We will describe the laboratory kinetic experiments, the diffusional analysis, the integration of these phenomena into a mathematical process model, its field testing and validation, and subsequent use in process design, modification, control, and optimization. 

Dr. Walas has several decades of varied experience in industry and academia and is an active industrial consultant for the process design of chemical reactors and chemical and petroleum plants. He has written four related books on reaction kinetics, phase equilibria, process equipment selection and design, and mathematical modeling of chemical engineering processes, as well as the sections Reaction Kinetics and Chemical Reactors in the seventh edition of Chemical Engineers Handbook. He is a Fellow of the AlChE and a registered professional engineer. 

Reactor design uses information, knowledge, and experience from a variety of areas—thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and economics. Chemical reaction engineering is the synthesis of all these factors with the aim of properly designing a chemical reactor. 

This chapter reviews some of the main topics involved in the design and modeling of solar photocatalytic reactors, with particular emphasis on the authors research experience. Solar photons are source of energy that initiates photocatalytic degradation. Thus, proper consideration of radiative processes is key to address this subject. The determination of the directional and spectral characteristics of solar UV radiation, the interaction of the catalyst with radiation inside reaction spaces, the optical design of solar collectors, and the optical properties of the materials involved are all subjects where these concepts are necessary. Therefore, developments in this area should be solidly grounded on the fields of solar collector optics and radiative transfer, besides the more traditional chemical engineering aspects involved. This requires a multidisciplinary approach. 

The acquisition of kinetic data and parameter estimation can be at quite a sophisticated level, particularly for solid catalytic reactions statistical design of experiments, refined equipment, computer monitoring of data acquisition, and statistical evaluation of the data. Two papers are devoted to this topic by Hofmann (in Chemical Reaction Engineering ACS Advances in Chemistry, 109, 519-534 [1972] in de Lasa, ed.. Chemical Reactor Design and Technology, Martinus Nijhoff 1985, pp. 69-105). 

The first order of business in the study of a new reaction in the context of process research and development is to measure reaction rates, establish approximate reaction orders for empirical power-law rate equations, and obtain values of their apparent rate coefficients. This chapter presents a brief overview of laboratory equipment, design of kinetic experiments, and evaluation of their results. It is intended as a tour guide for the practical chemist or engineer. More complete and detailed descriptions can be found in standard texts on reaction engineering and kinetics [G1-G7],... 

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