Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd Edition

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047125424X ISBN 13: 9780471254249

Publisher: Wiley, 1998

Chemical reaction engineering is concerned with the exploitation of chemical reactions on a commercial scale. It's goal is the successful design and operation of chemical reactors. This text emphasizes qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. Simple ideas are treated first, and are then extended to the more complex.

From the Publisher:

An improved and simplified edition of this classic introduction to the principles of reactor design for chemical reactions of all types--homogeneous, catalytic, biochemical, gas, solid, extractive, etc. Adds new material on systems of deactivating catalysts, flow modeling and diagnosis of the ills of operating equipment, and new simple design procedures for packed bed and fluidized bed reactors.

About the Author:

Octave Levenspiel was a professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. His principal interest was chemical reaction engineering, and he was the author of a major textbook Chemical Reaction Engineering as well as numerous research publications.