Chemical Engineering: Chemical and Biochemical Reactors and Process Control v. 3
3rd Edition
Published on 30. September 1994
Book
Hardback
720 pages
978-0-08-041002-9 (ISBN)
Description
This work covers reaction engineering (both chemical and biochemical), together with measurement and process control. In the new edition, the material on chemical reactor design has been re-arranged into four chapters. The first chapter covers general principles, the second, flow characteristics and modelling in reactors. Chapter 3 now includes material on catalytic reactions together with non-catalytic gas-solids reactions and chapter 4 covers other multiphase reactor systems. The chapter on biochemical engineering, has been completely re-written into two sections. The first deals with the nature of reaction processes controlled by micro-organisms and enzymes and is prefaced by background material on the relevant microbiology and biochemistry; and in the second section, the process engineering principles of biochemical reactors are discussed, and emphasis is given to those features which differentiate them from the chemical reactors described previously. A new chapter, "Measurement", describes the various in-line techniques for measurement of the process variables which constitute the essential inputs to the control system of the plant.
The chapters on the process control gives an updated treatment of the principles and applications of process control and concludes with a discussion of computer control of process plant.
The chapters on the process control gives an updated treatment of the principles and applications of process control and concludes with a discussion of computer control of process plant.
More details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
100 line drawings, references, problems
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Weight
1176 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-08-041002-9 (9780080410029)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 Reactor design - general principles: basic objectives in design of a reactor; classification of reactors and choice of reactor type; choice of process conditions; chemical kinetics and rate equations; general material and thermal balances; batch reactors; tubular-flow reactors; continuous stirred-tank reactors; comparison of batch; tubular and stirred-tank reactors for single reaction; reactor output; comparison of batch; tubular and stirred-tank reactors for multiple reactions; reactor yield; further reading; references; nomenclature. Part 2 Flow characteristics of reactors - flow modelling: non-ideal flow and mixing in reactors; tanks-in-series model; dispersed-plug-flow model; models involving combinations of the basic flow elements; further reading; references; nomenclature. Part 3 Gas-solid reactions and reactors: mass transfer within porous solids; chemical reactions in porous catalyst pellets; mass transfer from the fluid stream to a solid surface; chemical kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic reactions; design calculations; gas-solid non-catalytic reactors; further reading; references; nomenclature. Part 4 Gas-liquid and gas-liquid-solid reactors: gas-liquid reactors; gas-liquid-solid reactors; further readings; references; nomenclature. Part 5 Biochemical reaction engineering: part A - reactions at the cellular level; cellular diversity and the classification of living systems; chemical composition of cells; enzymes; metabolism; strain improvement methods; part B - reaction at the process level; stoichiometric aspects of biological processes; microbial growth; immobilised biocatalysts; reactor configurations; estimation of kinetic parameters; non-steady state microbial systems; further design considerations; appendices; further reading; references; nomenclature. Part 6 Sensors for measurement and control: the measurement of flow; the measurement of pressure; the measurement of temperature; the measurement of level; the measurement of density (specific gravity); the measurement of viscosity; the measurement of composition; process sampling systems; the static characteristics of sensors; signal conditioning; signal transmission (telemetry); further reading; references; nomenclature. Part 7 Process control: feedback control; qualitative approaches to simple feedback control system design; the transfer function; transfer functions of capacity systems; distance-velocity lag (dead time); transfer functions of fixed parameter controllers; response of control loop components to forcing functions; transfer functions of feedback control systems; system stability and the characteristics equation; common procedures for setting feedback controller parameters; system compensation; cascade control; feed-forward and ratio control; MIMO systems-interaction and decoupling; non-linear systems; discrete time control systems; adaptive control; computer control of a simple plant-the operator interface. (Part contents).