Chemical Reactor Design, Optimization, and Scaleup

• Covers the fundamentals and principles of chemical reactor design, along with advanced topics and applications
• Presents techniques for dealing with varying physical properties in reactors of all types and purposes
• Includes a completely new chapter on meso-, micro-, and nano-scale reactors that addresses such topics as axial diffusion in micro-scale reactors and self-assembly of nano-scale structures
• Explains the method of false transients, a numerical solution technique
• Includes suggestions for further reading, problems, and, when appropriate, scaleup or scaledown considerations at the end of each chapter to illustrate industrial applications
• Serves as a ready reference for explained formulas, principles, and data

E. Bruce Nauman, PhD, is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has an international reputation based on numerous books, patents, and journal publications. Dr. Nauman consults widely. He was previously the product manager of performance plastics at Union Carbide and the research and development manager of materials engineering at Xerox Corporation.