Module manager: Professor FL Muller
Email: f.l.muller@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
| CAPE3320 | Reaction Engineering |
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module provides a comprehensive introduction to: - Types of heterogeneous multiphase reactions and reactors. - Models, rate of reactions and size analysis of reactors. - Principles of process performance analysis and design of the multiphase reactors. - Non-isothermal and non-ideal flow reactor systems.
To learn advanced reaction engineering core concepts: complex catalytic kinetics, residence time and mass transfer.
To provide opportunities to apply these reaction engineering principles and demonstrate how to communicate the rationale underpinning reaction engineering solutions.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Have a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of scientific principles relevant to chemical engineering, and apply them to the solution of complex reaction engineering problems.
2. Be able to apply the underlying principles of reactor engineering to more complex problems, critically evaluating the limitations of assumptions of the approach taken.
3. Be able to select and adapt computational techniques to tackle complex problems.
4. Be able to apply knowledge of chemical engineering principles to complex and/or novel unit operations, and substances with complex behaviour.
5. Be able to apply principles of sustainability to novel and complex situations.
6. Be able to handle uncertainty and complexity.
- Development of ability of reaction and reactor system analysis.
- Development of problem solving abilities, e.g. by conducting appropriate numerical analysis using model of reaction and mass transfer to determine the key parameters of reactor and processes.
- Knowledge application to practical design and experience of industrial practice on design calculations.
Topics Include:
- Reaction kinetics, rate equations for catalysed systems, integral and differential analysis of kinetic data.
- Performance equations for ideal reactors (batch, continuous stirred tank and plug flow), rate constants based on extensive quantities other than fluid volume, observed rate constants, application on fixed and fluidised bed reactors.
- Non-ideal flow reactors: hydrodynamics and mixing in real stirred tank and tubular reactor, residence time distribution for ideal reactors; macro and micro mixedness, tanks in series and axial dispersion models, compartment models, the impact of RTD on the extent of reaction, general performance equation.
- Mass transfer, mass transfer combined with reaction, resistance in series model, gas liquid mass transfer systems, mass transfer in rate equations, pore diffusion limitation, effectiveness factors. Thiele modulus'.
- Application of core concepts on example reactor types: like bubble columns, trickle bed reactors, fixed bed reactors and fluidised bed reactor.
- Mathematical concepts underpinning reaction engineering, numerical and graphical solutions methods, Dirac function, Riemann's sum, integration methods.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coursework Discussion Session | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Group learning | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| Lecture | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Practical | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Tutorial | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| Independent online learning hours | 53 | ||
| Private study hours | 40 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 57 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
Independent online learning:
Concept videos
Private study:
Reading and study
Practice questions
Feedback on practical
Answers on in-course assessment
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| In-course Assessment | Class test | 20 |
| Assignment | Coursework | 80 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 4/29/2024
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