CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING (CRE)

Recommended Material for Gate Chemical reaction Engineering:
Chemical Reaction engineering book by octave levenspiel
Chapters to study in this book
Chapter 1 -Overview of Chemical Reaction Engineering
Chapter 2- Kinetics of Homogeneous Reactions
Chapter 3- Interpretation of Batch Reactor Data
Chapter 4 Introduction to Reactor Design
Chapter 5 Ideal Reactors for a Single Reaction
Chapter 6 Design for Single Reactions
Chapter 7 Design for Parallel Reactions
Chapter 8 Potpourri of Multiple Reactions

• 8.1 Irreversible First-Order Reactions


• 8.2 First-Order Followed by Zero-Order Reaction


• 8.3 Zero-Order Followed by First-Order Reaction

Chapter 9 Temperature and Pressure Effects
Chapter 11 Basics of Non-Ideal Flow
Chapter 18 Solid Catalyzed Reactions
Chapter 21 Deactivating Catalysts
Chapter 27 Enzyme Fermentation
       27.1 Michaelis-Menten Kinetics
Chapter 28 Microbial Fermentation- Introduction and Overall Picture
Chapter 29 Substrate-Limiting Microbial Fermentation

Chemical Reaction Engineering by Fogler– Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering.
Chapter 13 Distributions of Residence Time For Chemical Reactions.
In this Chapter no need to do 13.5,13.8
Chapter 14 Models for Nonideal Reactors upto 14.3

For kinetics of heterogenous catalytic reactions refer Chemical engineering kinetics book by J.M.Smith.
Chapter 8- Heterogenous Catalysts till 8-4
Chapter 9- Kinetics of Fluid-Solid Catalytic Reactions
For further reference and understanding can refer NPTEL lecture
Chemical Reaction Engineering 1(Homogenous reactors) by Prof K. Krishnaiah
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/103/106/103106116/
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