Advanced Chemical Reactor Design

This book covers many aspects of reactor design including use of numerical methods for solving engineering problems, use of transfer functions to study residence time distributions, convolution and deconvolution curves for reactor characterization, forced-unsteady-state-operation, scale-up of chemical reactors, industrial catalysis, design of multiphasic reactors, biochemical reactors design, as well as the design of multiphase gas-liquid-solid reactors. It also includes several examples of calculations. More importantly, it gives special emphasis on the numerical solutions of differential equations by using of the finite differences approximation, which would give a background for understanding other more complex methods. The book will benefit the chemical engineering academic community as it presents a good compilation of advanced aspects in chemical reactor design.