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| Education Period |
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| Start Education |
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| Exam Period |
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| Course Language |
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| Expected prior knowledge |
PT-1, Wiskunde, Fysische Chemie en Kinetiek
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| Course Contents |
- Conversion and selectivity in ideal and non-ideal reactors
- The relation between kinetics, reaction networks and reactor performance - Cascade of reactors / Residence time distribution - Heat effects and catalyst behaviour in reactor operation - Application to gas, liquid and solid phase reactions |
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| Study Goals |
The student is able to:
- determine the limiting steps in reactors - predict/calculate the conversion and selectivity - design & select a chemical reactor - Prediction of optimal reaction conditions - extract the kinetics of the reactions from experiments - use and apply numerical techniques |
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| Education Method |
Lectures, tutorials and homework
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| Literature and Study Materials |
Lanny D. Schmidt: The Engineering of Chemical Reactions, 2nd edition
Lecture notes (see Blackboard) |
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| Prerequisites |
PT-1, Wiskunde, Fysische Chemie en Kinetiek
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| Assessment |
Written exam, and homework
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| Enrolment / Application |
Inschrijving voor het tentamen is verplicht, en kan vanaf 1 maand tot 2 weken
voor de tentamendatum via U-twist. |
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| Remarks |
English course language
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