13. Unsteady State Non-Isothermal Reactor Design*

Topics

  1. Batch Reactors with Heat Effects Example

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Balance on a system volume that is well-mixed:

Adiabatic batch reactor with no work:



Polymath

The following reaction occurs in a batch reactor:

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Parameter Values

Adiabatic Reaction


or use one of the integration formulas, e.g.: , to find the reaction time, t. Even better, use Polymath.

Cooling:

Safety Video of T2 Laboratories Explosion caused by a runaway reaction

 
Batch Reactor with External Heating
Text Example 13-2
Questions related to Problem 13-2

Object Assessment of Chapter 13
 

* All chapter references are for the 1st Edition of the text Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering .

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