University of Illinois
Chemical Rate Processes and Reactor Design Schedule
Professor Richard Braatz
| Date | Topic | Reading | Homework Due |
| 8/26 | Introduction, basic mole balances | App A, Ch 1 | |
| 8/28 | P1-6, P1-7, and P1-2(b)s | ||
| 8/31 | Conversion in ideal reactors | Ch 2 | P1-3, P1-5, CDP1-8, P1-8(a)s |
| 9/2 | P2-4, P2-7s, and P2-8 | ||
| 9/4 | Basic chemical kinetics | Ch 3.1 | |
| 9/7 | Labor Day - no class | ||
| 9/9 | Stoichiometry | Ch 3.2-3.4 | P2-3, P2-12s, P3-4, P3-6(d) |
| 9/11 | P3-10, P3-12, and CDP3-E | ||
| 9/14 | Reactor choice, sequences of reactors | Ch 4.1-4.3 | P3-7, CDP3-D |
| 9/16 | Pressure drop in reactors | Ch 4.4-4.5 | |
| 9/18 | Simultaneous reaction and separation | Ch 4.6-4.7 | |
| 9/21 | P4-9s, P4-22, and P4-26 | ||
| 9/23 | Review for Exam I | P4-7s, P4-23s, P4-27 | |
| 9/25 | Exam I (Ch 1-4) | ||
| 9/28 | Analysis of rate data | Ch 5 | |
| 9/30 | Basic catalysis | Ch 10.1-10.5 | P5-3, P5-7 |
| 10/2 | Catalyst deactivation | Ch 10.6-10.8 | |
| 10/5 | P10-3, P10-12s, and CDP10-L or (P10-18) | ||
| 10/7 | Polymerization | Ch 7.1-7.3 | P10-4, P10-14 |
| 10/9 | Enzymatic reactions | Ch 7.4 | |
| 10/12 | P7-5, Example 7-2, and CDP7-C | ||
| 10/14 | Review of thermochemistry | Ch 8.1-8.2 | P7-2(a), P7-3, P7-4, P7-11 |
| 10/16 | Nonisothermal reactors | Ch 8.3 | |
| 10/19 | Equilibrium conversion | Ch 8.4 | |
| 10/21 | Unsteady-state operation | Ch 9 | |
| 10/23 | Reactor stability | Ch 8.7 | |
| 10/26 | P8-13, P9-7, and P8-15 | ||
| 10/28 | Multiple Reactions | Ch 6 | P8-4, P8-5(a,b,c,d), P8-6 |
| 10/30 | P6-5, P6-6, and P6-14 | ||
| 11/2 | Review for Exam II | P6-4, P6-7, P6-8 | |
| 11/4 | Exam II (Ch 5-10) | ||
| 11/6 | Diffusion effects | Ch 11.1-11.3 | |
| 11/9 | Shrinking core model | Ch 11.4-11.5 | |
| 11/11 | P11-3 and P11-4 | ||
| 11/13 | Diffusion and reaction in porous catalysts | Ch 12.1-12.3 | P11-2(a,b), P11-5 |
| 11/16 | Effectiveness factors | Ch 12.4-12.5 | |
| 11/18 | Packed bed reactors, limiting cases | Ch 12.6-12.7 | |
| 11/20 | Chemcial vapor deposition | Ch 12.8 | |
| 11/23 | P12-5 and P12-7 | ||
| 11/25 | Slurry and trickled bed reactors (qualitative) | Ch 12 | P12-3, P12-4s, P12-6 |
| 11/27 | Thanksgiving - no class | ||
| 11/30 | Bioreactors | Ch 7.5 | |
| 12/2 | P7-25 and CDP7-G | ||
| 12/4 | Residence time distributions | Ch 13.1-13.4 | P7-24, P7-27 |
| 12/7 | Micromixing | Ch 13.5-13.6 | |
| 12/9 | P13-12, P13-13 | ||
| 12/11 | Nonideal reactors - last day of class | Ch 14 | P13-8, CDP13-A |
s = Suggestion