Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering

Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering is a practical focused text that brings together the relevant basics for reaction engineering and shows their applications to a wide variety of examples, whilst looking at the intrinsic kinetics data acquisition, reaction mechanism elucidation, elementary step-based modelling and model-based design and optimization involved.

The book aims at spanning the entire process from acquisition of the relevant data in specifically designed experimental set-ups, over the proper data treatment and the corresponding interpretation up to the quantification of the gained understanding in a (kinetic) model. The latter aspect allows the reader to challenge the interpretation made of the data and design subsequent experiments or improve the interpretation/model formulation. The coverage goes beyond the generic (theoretical) principles, which are, evidently, also dealt with, by carefully considering and explaining their application to a variety of real-life applications including gas- and liquid-phase reactions, heterogeneously catalyzed reactions involving adsorption either in the Henry regime or at full saturation of the catalyst or combined homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions.

Elementary Kinetic Modelling in Catalytic Reaction Engineering is written primarily for graduate students and postdoc researchers in chemical engineering or applied industrial chemistry studying chemical reaction engineering and catalysis, as well as physical chemists studying kinetics.

• Conveys how relevant information for the optimization of chemical reactions can be acquired through modelling and simulation of the kinetics and other elementary phenomena involved
• Provides a complete path from the acquisition of experimental data to its interpretation and the development of a predictive (kinetic) model
• Readers are provided with concrete guidelines on how to approach experimental efforts, how to systematically interpret data and correspondingly formulate a kinetic model
• Case studies cover a range of interesting practical possibilities for chemical reaction engineering