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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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Location |
Delft
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