Engr.

Muhammad Sajid, UOG 1

Chemical Reaction
Engineering - 1

— ENGR. MUHAMMAD SAJID

— B.Sc Chemical Engg. PU
— M.Sc Chemical Engg. PU

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 Chemical Reaction Engineering I

Raw
Material Reactor Product
Chemical Reactor

Stomach Septic Tank Wastewater Channel

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Chemical Production System

Material
Processing Reactor Product
Purification

Recycle

Low cost reactor does not ensure desired

quality of product

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 Challenges: Chemical
Production System
H Air
2 A

v Heat transfer B
v Kinetics
vFluid Flow
Ozone
vMixing
Gen
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Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRE)

Heat Mass
Transfer Transfer

Input output
REACTOR

Kinetics

Economics

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Chemical Reaction Engineering
(CRE)
◦ CRE deals with chemically reactive systems of
engineering significance.

◦ CRE is the discipline that quantifies the interactions

of transport phenomena (Heat, Mass and flow)
and reaction kinetics in relating reactor performance
to operating conditions and feed variables.

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(Source: Sajid, UOG Kunal Karan)
ISCRE website/Dr. 8
Ideal Reactors

Plug Flow Reactor

Batch CSTR/Mixed flow

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 Reactor Performance Equation

Output = f (input, kinetics, contacting)

input
Reactor output

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 Homogenous vs
Heterogeneous Reactions

Sulfuric
Acid Reactor Product

NaOHs/
NaoHaq

Phase = Same T, P and composition

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REACTION VARIABLES
— Temperature
— Pressure
— Composition/ Concentration
— Rate of mass transfer
(Heterogeneous sys)

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Reaction Rate
Based on unit volume of reacting fluid

Based on unit mass of solid in fluid – solid system

Based on unit interfacial surface in two – fluid systems

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 Reaction Rate
Based on unit volume of solid in gas – solid systems

Based on unit volume of reactor

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Reaction Rate

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Example
— A human being 75 kg consumes about
6000 kJ of food per day. Assume that the
food is all glucose, find man’s metabolic
rate in terms of moles of oxygen used per
m3 of person per second.
— Solution:
C6H12O6 + 6O2 6CO2 + 6H2O

-rO2 = - 1/Vperson dNO2/dt = mol O2 used/

m3 of person/s
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Solution
— Human density = 1000 Kg/ m3

— Therefore volume = 75/1000 = 0.075 m3

— See reaction equation
1 mole glucose consumed 6 moles oxygen
& produced 2816 kJ of energy, so

6000 kJ/day 1 mol glucose

2816kJ/mol glucose = 12.8 mol O2/day
6 mol O2

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 12.8 mol O2 used 1 day
1
-rO2 = x x
0.075 m3 day 24 x 3600 s

0.002 mol O2 used

=
m3. s

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Related numericals and examples

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