Description
The objectives of the course are: • Instill a sense of the complexity of the
catalytic process, namely that beyond the chemical reaction also mass
transfer, internal or external, is crucial for the design of the reactor or to
the prediction of its behaviour. • Describe the main types of catalytic
reactors and the mathematical models that allow to simulate its operation.
With the acquired knowledge the students should be able to: • Propose
mechanisms for a catalyzed reaction, deduce the corresponding kinetic models,
choose the model that best fits the experimental data. • Determine if a given
catalytic process is limited by chemical reaction or mass transfer,
intraparticle or external. • Simulate the operation of a catalytic reactor,
with the use of appropriate mathematical models.