EXPANSION OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS

8 EXPANSION OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS 

Since the reaction engineering community is large, Table 10.1 can never be exhaustive we apologize to those who are not mentioned—Table 10.1 should only be used as an orientation in the subject. By running a computer search of the persons mentioned in Table 10.1, it will be easy to come across new names through the references. 

In recent decades, the application of chemical reaction engineering has made a real breakthrough elegant academic exercises have been turned into industrial practice. Chemical reaction engineering is no longer only applied to the production of bulk chemicals but also to fine and speciality chemicals. New application areas have emerged, such as bioreactors, processes in the electronics industry, conversion of molecules from nature, and production of pulp and paper. 

Topics of chemical reaction engineering are discussed by a multitude of scientific congresses and colloquia devoted to chemical engineering and catalysis. The flagship of these events in reaction engineering is the International Symposium in Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE), which started in the late 1950s as a European—North American effort. 

Transient (dynamic) models for catalytic M. Kobayashi, J. Koubek, C.O. Bennett, M. Baerns, 

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