advanced_concepts
Batch and Semibatch Reactors
Consider the ideal batch reactor illustrated in Figure 3.2.1. If it is assumed that the contents of the…
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advanced_concepts
Reactors for Measuring Reaction Rates
The confines in which chemical reactions occur are called reactors. A reactor can be a chemical reactor in…
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Transition-State Theory
For most elementary reactions, the rearrangement of atoms in going from reactants to products via a transition state…
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Arrhenius Temperature Dependence of the Rate Constant
The rate constant normally depends on the absolute temperature, and the functional form of this relationship was first…
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Elementary Reactions
Recall from the discussion of reaction networks in Chapter 1 that an elementary reaction must be written as…
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Initial Feasibility Study
THE FEASIBILITY study for a chemical process design investigates both the technical and economic feasibility of the proposed…
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Ammonia Oxidation Chemistry
Notably, all commercial nitric acid production methods used today are centred around the oxidation of ammonia. It is…
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The Evolution of Nitric Acid Production Processes
Until the beginning of the 20th century, nitric acid was prepared commercially by reacting sulphuric acid with either…
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Examples of Reaction Rates
Thus, for first-order systems, the rate, r, is proportional (via k) to the amount present, ni’ in the…
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General Properties of the Rate Function for a Single Reaction
The rate of reaction is generally a function of temperature and composition, and the development of mathematical models…
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