Modeling Of Chemical Kinetics And Reactor Design

Modeling of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design Modeling of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design A. Kayode Coker, Ph.D. Lecturerer and Consultant, AKC Technology Boston Oxford Johannesburg Melbourne New Delhi Singapore Dedication To my wife Victoria and the boys Akin and Ebun, love and thanks. Modeling of CHEMICAL KINETICS AND REACTOR DESIGN Copyright © 2001 by Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publisher. Gulf Publishing Company Book Division P.O. Box 2608, Houston, Texas 77252-2608 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (To come) ISBN 0-88415-481-5 Printed in the United States of America. Printed on acid-free paper (∞). iv Acknowledgments I wish to express my gratitude to the following for giving their time in proofreading various sections of the text: Drs. A. A. Adesina, L. M. Rose, C. J. Mumford, and J. D. Jenkins. I am indebted to Emeritus Professor Octave Levenspiel for his encouragement and advice in some chapters of the text, and to Drs. Waldram and Singh for their comments, suggestions on safety in reaction engineering, and the inclusion of HEL safety photographs in the text. I would also like to thank Mr. Ed Steve for his comments and suggestions on scale-up of reactors, and Mr. Joseph Rivera for some of the figures in the text. I wish to express my gratitude to Drs. A. Bakker, J. B. Fasano, and V. V. Ranade for contributing to Chapter 10 (Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computational