Reactors and Reaction Engineering: Systems and Instrumentation- Volume One

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Description

This guidebook features a collection of tutorial-style engineering articles providing useful tips and best practices for the selection, design, operation and maintenance of reactor-based systems for converting raw materials into intermediates and finished products. It also contains detailed discussion of specific reactor-driven chemical conversions that are widely used in chemical process industries (CPI) operations.

Collectively, the content provides a wealth of useful technical guidance for optimizing reactor performance, maximizing conversion rates and output, and managing instrumentation and control issues.

Several articles profile continuous stirred-tank reactors (CSTR), microreactors and millichannel reactors. Others focus on instrumentation and control issues related to reaction engineering. In addition you will be provided with useful engineering support to improve biotechnology and fermentation-related reactor systems.

Delivered in a PDF format, 139 pages.

Articles Include:

Harnessing Biotechnology: A Practical Guide

• Biotechnology is increasingly proving its ability to address chemical industry challenges. An engineering-focused approach — bioengineering — is vital to successful industrial application

 

Synthetic Biology for Chemical Production

• Rapidly expanding computational power and decreasing costs for DNA sequencing and synthesis have made synthetic biology tools more accessible to chemical makers

 

Methanol Production from Natural Gas

 

LDPE via a High-Pressure Tubular Process Mechanical Design Aspects for High-Performance

 

Agitated Reactors

• An understanding of the mechanical design helps in specifying, maintaining and revamping agitated reactor systems

 

Methanol-to-Propylene Technology

 

Reactor systems: Improving mass-transfer-limited Reactions

• The step-by-step procedure described here can help operators to optimize reactor operation and output

 

Microreactors: Lessons Learned From Industrial Applications

• Implementing microreactors in chemical production is quite a challenge. How these challenges can be met is described here

 

Fermentation

 

Sulfuric Acid Production from Sulfur

 

Ethylene Glycol Production from Synthesis Gas

 

Millichannel Reactors: A Practical Middle Ground for Production

• Reactors with millimeter-scale dimensions provide mixing, heat transfer and other advantages over devices with larger dimensions, and increased robustness compared to microdevices. Here are tips to consider for using them

 

Chemical Process Plants: Plan for Revamps

• Follow this guidance to make the most of engineering upgrades that are designed to improve plant operations or boost throughput capacity

 

Bio-acrylic acid production from glucose

 

‘Green’ Ethylene Production

 

Acrylic Acid Production via Propylene Oxidation

 

Distillation, Part 1: Experimental Validation of Column Simulations

• A practical look at the need for validation, as well as conceptual considerations and a case study

 

Cyclohexane Production from Benzene and Hydrogen

 

Adiabatic-Temperature Rise: An Awkward Calculation Made Simple

 

How to estimate a final temperature after a reaction

 

CSTRs: Bound for Maximum Conversion

• Here, a design approach for continuous stirred-tank reactors is outlined for both reversible and irreversible second-order reactions

 

A Guide To: Methane Reforming

• A wide range of factors must be taken into account before selecting the most appropriate reforming technology

 

Producing Ethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass

 

Urea Production from NH3 via a Self-Stripping Process

 

Acrylonitrile Production from Propylene

 

Filtration and Separation During Chemical Process

 

Operations: Avoid Common Errors

• The seven commonly made mistakes discussed here often lead to poor filtration and separation performance and many associated problems

 

Liquid-Liquid Extraction

 

Photochemical Processes in Stirred Tank Reactors

• A general overview of industrial photochemistry and the design of large-scale stirred-tank photochemical reactors

 

Improving Data Analytics in Batch Manufacturing

• Producing a perfect batch is easy for some products but harder for others. Using analytics to dig into production data can help operators identify where variability might be creeping into a process

 

Mass Transfer in Fermentation Scaleup

• As fermenters are scaled up to huge sizes, mass transfer is a key consideration

 

Methanol-to-Olefins Process

 

Hydrogen Production from Natural Gas

 

Ammonia Production from Natural Gas

 

Propylene Oxide Production

 

Large-Scale Fermentation Systems: Hygienic Design Principles

• Follow these tips to optimize systems that use microbial fermentation to produce biochemicals and biopharmaceuticals

 

Design and Operating Principles for Bioprocesses

 

Ethylene Production via Cracking of Ethane-Propane 

 

Hydrogen Cyanide Production

 

Ethylene Glycol Production

 

Terephthalic Acid Production from p-Xylene

 

Acetic Acid Production from Methanol

 

CSTR Design for Reversible Reactions

• Here, a design approach for continuous stirred-tank reactors is outlined for three cases of second-order reactions