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  1. Slurry Reactors (PDF)
    1. Description of Use of Slurry Reactors
    2. Reaction and Transport Steps in a Slurry Reactor
    3. Determining the Rate Limiting Step
      1. Effect of Loading, Particle Size and Gas Adsorption
      2. Effect of Shear
        Example CD12-1 Determining The Controlling Resistance
    4. Slurry Reactor Design
      Example CD12-2 Slurry Reactor Design
  2. Trickle Bed Reactors (PDF)
    1. Fundamentals
    2. Limiting Situations
    3. Evaluating the Transport Coefficients
  3. Fluidized Bed Reactors (PDF)
    1. Descriptive Behavior of the Kunii-Levenspiel Bubbling Bed Model
    2. Mechanics of Fluidized Beds
      Example CD12-3 Maximum solids Hold Up
    3. Mass Transfer in Fluidized Beds
    4. Reaction in a Fluidized Bed
    5. Solution to the Balance Equations for a First Order Reaction
      Example CD12-4 Catalytic Oxidation of Ammonia
    6. Limiting Situations
      Example CD12-5 Calculating the Resistances of Transport and Reaction Steps
      Example CD12-6 Effect of Particle Size on Catalyst Weight for a Slow Reaction
      Example CD12-7 Effect of Catalyst Weight for a Rapid Reaction
  4. Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) (PDF)
    1. Chemical Reaction Engineering in Microelectronic Processing
    2. Fundamentals of CVD
    3. Effectiveness Factors for Boat Reactors
      Example CD12-8 Diffuion Between Wafers
      Example CD12-9 CVD Boat Reactor