Chemical Reaction Engineering: Kinetics, Reactor Design, and Catalysis with Electrochemical Reactors

Connect reaction rates to reactors that work

Chemical Reaction Engineering develops a practical, quantitative path from stoichiometry and kinetic data to safe reactor selection, scale-up, and operation. It explains batch, semibatch, stirred-tank, plug-flow, packed-bed, multiphase, catalytic, and electrochemical systems through balances, derivations, worked calculations, technical diagrams, and end-of-chapter problems.

Readers learn how to estimate kinetic parameters, diagnose residence-time distributions, manage multiple reactions, couple mass and energy balances, recognize thermal runaway boundaries, and separate intrinsic kinetics from film and pore transport. Detailed chapters derive catalytic rate models, evaluate catalyst deactivation and regeneration, and connect microkinetic mechanisms to reactor-scale predictions.

• Electrode kinetics, polarization losses, porous electrodes, flow cells, and stack scale-up
• Molecular simulation, transition-state theory, molecular dynamics, and adsorption thermodynamics
• Microkinetic assembly, thermodynamic consistency, sensitivity analysis, and mechanism reduction
• Optimization, uncertainty propagation, techno-economic comparison, lifecycle metrics, and robust decisions

Each chapter provides defined variables and units, topic-specific tables, distinct worked examples with final answers, and fully answered practice problems. The result is a coherent reference for advanced students, practicing engineers, researchers, and technical readers who need to move between molecular evidence, kinetic models, transport limits, reactor hardware, safety constraints, and sustainable process choices.