DAWOOD UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Title of Subject : Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis

Course Code : CH-502
Disciplines : MS (Chemical Engineering)
Effective : Batch-2018
Course type : Core Course
Assessment : 10% Sessional, 30% Mid Semester Exam, 60% Final Semester
Exam
Marks : Theory: 100 Practical: 00
Credit Hours : 3 0
Teaching Scheme : 3Hrs / Week 00

Course Objectives:
The objective of this course is to help the student master several advanced ideas in chemical
reaction engineering, notably:
1. Complex chemical reaction mechanisms and kinetics
2. Transport effects in multiphase reactive systems
3. Advanced reactor design and stability, including consideration of the energy balance.
4. Computational tools for reaction engineering

Course outlines
Review of fundamental principles; Order of reaction and rate equation; Theory of rate
processes; Diffusion and types of reactors; Estimation of reaction rate parameters using
empirical and quantum chemical methods, detailed chemical kinetic modelling. Design of
chemical reactors for homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions; Analysis and
comparison of the differences between batch and continuous reactor by using kinetics
and mass, energy and momentum balances. Design of fixed-bed, fluidized-bed and
industrial catalytic reactors. Catalysis, its function and behaviour.

Books Recommended:
a. H.S.A. FOGLER, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice-Hall PTR, 2006.
b. O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1999.
c. C.G. Hill, An Introduction to Chemical Engineering Kinetics & Reactor Design, 1983