This book describes how modeling fluid flow in chemical reactors may offer solutions that improve design, operation, and performance of reactors. Chemical reactors are any vessels, tubes, pipes, or tanks in which chemical reactions take place

Elementary Reactions in Ideal Reactors; Multiple Reactions in Batch Reactors;Isothermal Piston Flow Reactors;Stirred Tanks and Reactor Combinations;Thermal Effects and Energy Balances;Design and Optimization Studies;Fitting Rate Data and Using ThermodynamicsReal Tubular Reactors in Laminar Flow;Packed Beds and Turbulent Tubes;Heterogeneous Catalysis;Multiphase Reactors;Biochemical Reaction Engineering; Polymer Reaction Engineering; Unsteady Reactors; Residence Time Distributions;