Features
- NEW - More coverage of industrial chemistry with real reactors and real reactions—And extends the wide range of applications to which chemical reaction engineering principles can be applied. (e.g. drug medication, cobra bites, etc.)
- NEW - Digital Age3 reaction engineering problems.
- NEW - The only text on the market to contain a CD-ROM with Interactive Tutorials.
- NEW - Web Site—Will be used to update the text and the CD-ROM.
- A focus on problem solving and decision making—Teaches problem solving and decision making in general, and as applied to chemical reaction engineering.
THE CD-ROM
- Summary Notes—Provides an overview of each chapter.
- Web Modules—Applies key concepts to both standard and non-standard reaction engineering problems and can be loaded directly from the CD-ROM.
- Interactive Computer Modules.
- Solved Problems—Presented along with problem-solving heuristics.
- Software Toolbox—With instructions on how to use the different software packages such as POLY-MATH, MATLAB, and ASPEN PLUS to solve examples.
- Representative Syllabi—For a 3- and a 4- Credit Course.
- Virtual Reality Module—Provides an opportunity to move inside a catalyst pellet to observe surface reactions and coking.
- Copyright 1999
- Edition: 3rd
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Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-531708-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-531708-2
Applied Algorithms + Software Packages = Advanced Tools for Solving Complex Problems
The newest digital techniques, built on the sound foundations of the classic, best-selling text.
With a combination of user-friendly software and classic algorithms, students learn to solve problems through reasoning rather than memorization.
Thorough coverage of the fundamentals of chemical reaction engineering forms the backbone of this trusted text, presented in a framework that helps develop critical-thinking skills and practical problem-solving. All the classical elements are covered. Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Third Edition, builds a strong understanding of chemical reaction engineering principles and shows how they can be applied to numerous reactions in a variety of applications.
The structured approach helps develop skills in critical thinking, creative thinking, and problem-solving, by employing open-ended questions and stressing the Socratic method.
To enhance the transfer of skills to real-life settings, three styles of problems are included for each subject:
- Straightforward problems that reinforce the material
- Problems that encourage students to explore the issues and look for optimum solutions
- Open-ended problems that encourage students to practice creative problem-solving skills
Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Third Edition remains a leader as the only undergraduate-level book to focus on computer-based solutions to chemical reaction problems.
About the CD-ROM The enclosed CD offers numerous enrichment opportunities for both students and instructors, including:
- Learning Resources: lecture notes, web modules, and problem-solving heuristics
- Living Example Problems: POLYMATH software that allows students to explore the examples and ask "what-if" questions
- Professional Reference Shelf: detailed derivations, equations, general engineering materials, and specialty reactors and reaction systems
- Additional Study Materials: extra homework problems, course syllabi, guides to popular software packages
Throughout the text, margin icons link concepts and procedures to the material on the CD for fully integrated learning and reference.
Web site: http://www.engin.umich.edu/~cre
Downloadable Sample Chapter
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Table of Contents
1. Mole Balances.
2. Conversion and Reactor Sizing.
3. Rate Laws and Stoichiometry.
4. Isothermal Reactor Design.
5. Collection and Analysis of Rate Data.
6. Multiple Reactions.
7. Nonelementary Reaction Kinetics.
8. Steady-State Nonisothermal Reactor Design.
9. Unsteady-State Nonisothermal Reactor Design.
10. Catalysis and Catalytic Reactors.
11. External Diffusion Effects on Heterogeneous Reactions.
12. Diffusion and Reaction in Porous Catalysts.
13. Distributions of Residence Times for Chemical Reactors.
14. Models for Nonideal Reactors.
Appendix A. Numerical Techniques.
Appendix B. Ideal Gas Constant and Conversion Factors.
Appendix C. Thermodynamic Relationships Involving the Equilibrium Constant.
Appendix D. Measurement of Slopes on Semilog Paper.
Appendix E. Software Packages.
Appendix F. Nomenclature.
Appendix G. Molecular Dynamics of Chemical Reactions.
Appendix H. Open-Ended Problems.
Appendix I. How to Use the CD-ROM.
Appendix J. Use of Computational Chemistry Software Packages.