Richard Skeirik, PE

Kinetics and Reactor Design(Part 1): Kinetics
a 2 hour Workshop

In the first of a series on kinetics and reactor design, this workshop will lay the foundation of chemical kinetics on which the following reactor design workshops will focus. Chemists focus on the molecules involved in chemical reactions and how their substructures interact. Chemical engineers need to design and operate reactors in which these reactions take place. Kinetics is the link between the structure and the design, and gives us the computational handle on reactions.

This workshop gives a pragmatic overview of the important kinetic systems: simple bimolecular liquid reactions; networks of multiple reactions; bioreactions; reactions on supported catalysts, polymer reactions, and the temperature dependence of rate constants. The simpler kinetics should be familiar to all chemEs, while the more complex systems may be new. In an active learning format, you'll be applying the concepts after you hear about them.

At the end of workshop, attendees should be able to:

• Given an elementary chemical reaction, you can write the rate expression based on mass action
• Given a network of reactions, you can write the rate expression for any component
• Given a rate constant at two temperatures, you can derive the Arrhenius form.
• For  enzyme or supported catalyzed reactions, you can write the Mikaelis Menten/Hougen Watson rate expression based on fast binding/unbinding
• Given a free radical polymerization, you can write the kinetics for chain length n
• Faced with a problem in bio, hetero, or polymer, feel like you know the basics.

Materials for this Cont Ed Workshop:

Workshop Title Page with contact info
Physical Modeling Exercise
Elementary Reaction Rates Exercise
Reversible Reactions & Reaction Networks Exercise
Temperature Dependence Exercise
Bio/Heterogeneous Reactions Exercise
Polymer Kinetics Exercise

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