TAble of contents
Part II Building on Fundamentals
- Introduction
- The different tools of the trade
Rates and equilibria: The thermodynamic and extrathermodynamic approaches
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Basic thermodynamic relationships and properties
- Thermodynamics of reactions in solution
- Extrathermodynamic approach
- Extrathermodynamic relationships between rate and equilibrium parameters
- Thermodynamics of adsorption
- Appendix
- References
- Bibliography
- Explore Yourself
Interlude III
- Reactor design for thermodynamically limited reactions
- References
Theory of chemical kinetics in the bulk and on the surface
- Chapter objectives
- Chemical kinetics
- Collision theory
- Transition state theory
- Proposing a kinetic model
- Brief excursion for the classification of surface reaction mechanisms
- Microkinetic analysis
- References
- Bibliography
- Explore Yourself
Reactions with an interface: Mass and heat transfer effects
- Chapter objectives
- Introduction
- Transport between phases
- Mass transfer across interfaces: Fundamentals
- Solid catalyzed fluid reactions
- Noncatalytic gas–solid reactions
- Gas–liquid reactions in a slab
- Effect of external mass and heat transfer
- Regimes of control
- References
- Explore Yourself
Laboratory reactors: Collection and analysis of the data
- Chapter objectives
- Chemical reaction tests in a laboratory
- A perspective on statistical experimental design
- Batch laboratory reactors
- Rate parameters from batch reactor data
- Flow reactors for testing gas–solid catalytic reactions
- The transport disguises in perspective
- Analyzing the data
- References
- Explore Yourself