Chemical Reaction Engineering

Octave Levenspiel

Wiley, 1999 - Science - 668 pages

Chemical reaction engineering is concerned with the exploitation of chemical reactions on a commercial scale. It's goal is the successful design and operation of chemical reactors. This text emphasizes qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. Simple ideas are treated first, and are then extended to the more complex.

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The best summary of chemical reactions. The same fundamentals can be applied for biochemical reactions and automatic control of bioreactors.

Contents

• Chapter: 1
• Chapter: 5
• Chapter: 7
• Part I: 11
• Chapter: 13
• Chapter: 19
• Chapter: 26
• Chapter 3: 38
• Chapter 6: 108
• Chapter 4: 132
• Chapter 7: 152
• Chapter 8: 170
• Temperature and Pressure Effects 1207: 207
• Chapter 10: 228
• Part II: 255
• The TanksinSeries Model 321: 321
• The Convection Model for Laminar Flow 339: 339
• Chapter 16: 346
• Part III: 367
• Chapter 18: 376
• Chapter 21: 470
• Chapter 22: 498
• Part IV: 521
• Chapter 24: 540
• Chapter 25: 566
• Design: 589
• Part V: 609
• Chapter 28: 623
• Chapter 29: 630
• Chapter 30: 645
• Appendix 1655: 655
• Name Index 662: 663

About the author

Octave Levenspiel was a professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. His principal interest was chemical reaction engineering, and he was the author of a major textbook Chemical Reaction Engineering as well as numerous research publications.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chemical Reaction Engineering
• Author: Octave Levenspiel
• Contributor: Knovel (Firm)
• Edition: 3, illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Wiley, 1999
• ISBN: 047125424X, 9780471254249
• Length: 668 pages
• Subjects: Science / Chemistry / General; Technology & Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical; Technology & Engineering / Power Resources / Nuclear