Chemical Engineering Kinetics

✍ Scribed by Guy B. Marin (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Series: Advances in Chemical Engineering 32
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding and modeling the kinetics of chemical reactions is crucial to any research and development effort aimed at process optimization and innovation. This volume provides four complementary points of view. It reflects state-of-the-art developments as well as views on the way to proceed by reporting on the efforts of a representative, sample of research and development groups. A first contribution by W.H. Green Jr. sets the scene. The author advocates a paradigm shift in chemical kinetics from "postdictive" to predictive models. The contribution from the Politecnico di Milano reports on the tremendous experience accumulated over the years in the field of steam cracking, one of the largest scale production processes of the petrochemical industry. The Russian school of chemical kinetics is represented by a chapter on oxidation of alkanes, this contribution addresses more "philosophical" issues. The last chapter gives an indication of the state-of-the-art in an industrial environment. * Provides original reviews * Presents leading chemical engineers as authors * Reviews state-of-the-art developments. Read more... Abstract: Understanding and modeling the kinetics of chemical reactions is crucial to any research and development effort aimed at process optimization and innovation. This volume provides four complementary points of view. It reflects developments and views to proceed by reporting on the efforts of a representative, and on research and development groups. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Contributors
Page ix

Preface
Pages xi-xiii
Guy B. Marin

Predictive Kinetics: A New Approach for the 21st Century Review Article
Pages 1-50,313
William H. Green Jr.

Kinetic Modelling of Pyrolysis Processes in Gas and Condensed Phase Review Article
Pages 51-166
Mario Dente, Giulia Bozzano, Tiziano Faravelli, Alessandro Marongiu, Sauro Pierucci, Eliseo Ranzi

Kinetic Models of C₁–C₄ Alkane Oxidation as Applied to Processing of Hydrocarbon Gases: Principles, Approaches and Developments Review Article
Pages 167-258
Mikhail Sinev, Vladimir Arutyunov, Andrey Romanets

Kinetic Methods in Petroleum Process Engineering Review Article
Pages 259-304,314
Pierre Galtier

Index
Pages 305-312