Industrial Chemistry Reactions: Kinetics, Mass Transfer and Industrial Reactor Design

• Other Authors: Santacesaria, Elio (Editor), Tesser, Riccardo (Editor), Russo, Vincenzo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; heat exchanger; mathematical model; energy efficiency; inversion loss; process design; mass transfer; hydrogenation; slurry reactor; muconic acid; adipic acid; LHHW model; kinetics; epoxides; soybean oil; hydrogen peroxide; ring opening reaction; continuous flow stirred tank reactor (CSTR); phase transfer catalysis (PTC); green chemistry; multiphase reactor; liquid-liquid-liquid reactions; guaiacol; epichlorohydrin; guaiacol glycidyl ether; slow and rapid reactions; robust parameter estimation; dimethyl carbonate; gas-solid catalytic reactions; chemical kinetics; heat and mass transfer; packed bed reactor; multiphase system; phase-field LB model; complex channel; flow pattern; bubble evolution; Suzuki cross-coupling; hyper-cross-linked polystyrene; palladium nanoparticles; catalyst stability; carbonization; halogenation; spent resin; kinetic analysis; thermodynamic analysis; numerical optimization; ultrasonic spraying; three-phase reactor; triolein; transesterification; CaO; methanol vapor; 1,1-diethoxybutane; heterogeneous catalysts; adsorption; process intensification; simulated moving bed reactor; deoxygenation efficiency; vacuum-N2-H2O-O2 system; rotor-stator reactor; correlation; n/a
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Nowadays, the impressive progress of commercially available computers allows us to solve complicated mathematical problems in many scientific and technical fields. This revolution has reinvigorated all aspects of chemical engineering science. More sophisticated approaches to catalysis, kinetics, reactor design, and simulation have been developed thanks to the powerful calculation methods that have recently become available. It is well known that many chemical reactions are of great interest for industrial processes and must be conducted on a large scale in order to obtain needed information in thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport phenomena related to mass, energy, and momentum. For a reliable industrial-scale reactor design, all of this information must be employed in appropriate equations and mathematical models that allow for accurate and reliable simulations for scaling up purposes. The aim of this proposed Special Issue was to collect worldwide contributions from experts in the field of industrial reactor design based on kinetic and mass transfer studies. The following areas/sections were covered by the call for original papers: Kinetic studies on complex reaction schemes (multiphase systems); Kinetics and mass transfer in multifunctional reactors; Reactions in mass transfer-dominated regimes (fluid-solid and intraparticle diffusive limitations); Kinetic and mass transfer modeling using alternative approaches (ex. stochastic modeling); Simulations in pilot plants and industrial-sized reactors and scale-up studies based on kinetic studies (lab-to-plant approach).