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This document provides information about the CBE 621: Advanced Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design course including the instructor and teaching assistant contact details, recommended textbooks, grading policies, and course outline. The course will be taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30-6:00pm in Towne 303 by Professor Amish Patel. Sean Marks will serve as the teaching assistant. The grading will be based on homework, two midterms, and a final exam. The course outline covers topics like reaction kinetics, non-ideal flow, surface reactions, and different types of reactors.

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This document provides information about the CBE 621: Advanced Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design course including the instructor and teaching assistant contact details, recommended textbooks, grading policies, and course outline. The course will be taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30-6:00pm in Towne 303 by Professor Amish Patel. Sean Marks will serve as the teaching assistant. The grading will be based on homework, two midterms, and a final exam. The course outline covers topics like reaction kinetics, non-ideal flow, surface reactions, and different types of reactors.

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CBE 621: Advanced Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design

Tue, Thu: 4:30 - 6:00pm, Towne 303

Instructor: Amish Patel


Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: By appointment; email me to schedule an appointment.
First point of contact on questions related to course material and concepts

Teaching Assistant: Sean Marks


Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: TBD (Friday morning?) and/or by appointment
First point of contact on questions related to homework

Recommended Text Books


1) Reaction Kinetics, M. J. Pilling & P. W. Seakins, Oxford Science Publications
2) Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd Edition, O. Levenspiel, Wiley
3) Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Fundamentals, 2nd Edition, J. B. Rawlings & J. G.
Ekerdt, Nob Hill Publishing
Additional materials will be posted as appropriate.

Grading Policies
Homework: 15% (assigned on Tuesdays, every 1-2 weeks; will be due the following Tuesday)
Midterm 1: 20% (early-mid October)
Midterm 2: 20% (November 15 or 17)
Final: 45% (December 16, 6 8 pm)
Exams will be open notes/books (no access to internet)
Solutions to HW/exams will NOT be provided

Course Outline
(1) Reaction Kinetics (from Pilling & Seakins)
A) Preliminary Concepts
B) Rate Definitions, Collision Theory, and Activated Complexes (Chapter 3)
C) Reaction Dynamics (Chapter 4)
D) Unimolecular Rate Theory (Chapter 5)
E) Reactions in Solution (Chapter 6)
F) Surface Reactions (Chapter 7)
G) Free Radical Reactions (Chapters 8, 9)
(2) Reaction Engineering (from Levenspiel)
A) Preliminary Concepts
B) Non-ideal Flow (Chapter 11)
i) Dispersion (Chapter 13)
ii) Tanks in series (Chapter 14)
iii) Mixing with nonlinear rates (Chapter 16)
C) Surface reaction with diffusion (Chapters 17, 18)
D) Packed bed reactors (Chapter 19)
E) Fluidized beds (Chapter 20)
F) Fluid-particle reactions (Chapter 25)

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