Chemical and Biological Reactors

Good background in Mathematics and Thermodynamics.

In the lectures are presented for the first time, the syllabus of the course, using the projection of slides and, whenever possible, the resolution of exercises for application. In practical classes, the teacher guides the student in solving a wide range of exercises covering all components of the curriculum. The proposed problems to be solved are distributed to the students in advance.

The learning outcomes of this course pass through to provide students with the ability to: – determine a simple kinetic equation, by applying the integral method of data analysis; – design and analyze the operation in a constant-volume ideal reactor, in isothermal operation; – design and to analyze the operation of an ideal reactor for non-isothermal operation (CSTR in adiabatic or not adiabatic operation and DSTR and PFR in adiabatic operation); – use the Monod equation; – design and to analyze an ideal reactor (DSTR and CSTR) for microbial reactions, in isothermal operation.

1. Kinetics of homogeneous reactions. Constant-volume batch reactor. Integral method of anslysis of data and aplication to the following reactions: irreversible unimolecular-type first-order reactions; irreversible bimoleculartype second-order reactions and irreversible trimolecular-type second-order reactions. The half-life method.

2. Mole balances on ideal reactors. Non-isothermal ideal reactors. The energy balance. Adiabatic operation (DSTRs, CSTRs and PFRs). Non adiabatic operation (CSTRs)

3. Stoichiometry and kinetics of microbial processes. Cell growth, cell death, cell maintenance, substrate consume, and product formation. Luedeking-Piret equation. Mass balances on batch and chemostat operation. Application to ideal reactors

NAO

Dunn, I.J., Heinzle, J.I., & Prenosil, J. E. (2003). Biological Reaction Engineering: Dynamic Modelling Fundamentals with Simulation Examples (2nd ed.). VCH Publishers, New York. (A copy of an earlier edition is available in the library)

Fogler, H.S. (2011). Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering (International ed.). Prentice Hall. (A copy is available in the library)

Fonseca, M., & Teixeira, J. (2007). Reatores Biológicos – Fundamentos e aplicações (1ª ed.). Lidel. (A copy is available in the library)

Froment, G.F., Bischoff, K.B., & De Wilde J. (2010). Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design (3rd ed.). John Wiley. (A copy of an earlier edition is available in the library)

James, E.B., & David, F.O. (1986). Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals (2nd ed.). Mc Graw-Hill. (A copy is available in the library)

Lemos, F., Lopes, J.M., & Ribeiro, F.R. (2014). Reatores Químicos (3ª ed.). IST Press, Lisboa. (A copy of an earlier edition is available in the library)

Levenspiel, O. (1999). Chemical Reaction Engineering (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, New York. (A copy is available in the library)

Missen, M.S. (1999). Introduction to Chemical Reaction Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, New York. (A copy is available in the library)

Schmidt, L.D. (2004). The Engineering of Chemical Reactions (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press, Oxford.