Industrial Chemistry Reaction: Kinetics, Mass Transfer and Industrial Reactor Design (II)

• Other Authors: Santacesaria, Elio (Editor), Tesser, Riccardo (Editor), Russo, Vincenzo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; Chemical engineering; membrane reactor; hydrogen; ammonia; permeation; multiple steady states; catalytic chemical vapor deposition; 1,2-dichloroethane; Ni-Pd alloy; metal dusting; carbon nanofibers; characterization; rotating zigzag bed; modeling; gas-liquid mass transfer; carbon dioxide; absorption; ethylene carbonate hydrogenation; methanol; ethylene glycol; multiscale reactor model; reactor analysis; operation window; methanol synthesis; CO2 utilization; power-to-X; intermediate condensation steps; product removal; techno-economic analysis; heat integration; plant simulation; argon-stirred ladle; particle image velocimetry; numerical simulation; fluid flow; bubble; coal; waste tire; co-pyrolysis; Zn; thermochemical behaviors; pressure drop; countercurrent total spray tray; sloshing platform; hydrodynamic performance; offshore conditions; simulated moving bed; chromatographic separation; variants; three-zone SMB; operation mode; ethanol; ethyl acetate; LOHC; methane cracking; molten metal process; CO2 free process; n/a
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The impressive progress in commercially available computers nowadays allows the solving of complicated mathematical problems in many scientific and technical fields. This revolution has created a surge in chemical engineering science. More sophisticated approaches to catalysis, kinetics, reactor design and simulation have been developed thanks to the powerful new calculation methods available. It is well known that many chemical reactions of great interest for industrial processes and conducted on a large scale need information ranging from thermodynamics to kinetics and transport phenomena related to mass, energy and momentum. For a reliable industrial-scale reactor design, all of this information must be employed into appropriate equations and mathematical models that allow for accurate and reliable simulations for scale-up purposes. A challenge is to collect, in a measurable volume, the main advances and trends in the field of industrial chemistry thanks to the contributions of some pioneers of scientific and technological progress. We can achieve this by reviewing their past activity in the field, or providing, through original manuscripts, examples of the modern approach to the investigation of industrial chemistry reactions.