Chemical Engineering Tutorials: May 2022

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Short Notes #4

The following summarizations can be helpful when designing isothermal reactors.

The concentration of a species in a chemical reaction can be expressed as a function of conversion using the following algorithm. 


The following is an algorithm that can be followed when designing an Isothermal-reaction for conversion.


Algorithm for isothermal reactors is summarized below. 


(Source: Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (5th Edition) by H. Scott Fogler) 


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