syllabus
CHBI 502
REACTION ENGINEERING
Syllabus, Spring 2016
Course Description: Design and operation of chemical reactors. Homogeneous, heterogeneous and biochemical reactions. Ideal and non-ideal reactors. Kinetics of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Kinetics of substrate utilization and biomass production. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor
Instructor: Özlem Keskin
Office: Eng 224
Office Hours Anytime
Textbook Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (4th ed.), H.S. Fogler Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (2005).
Class Hours Mon 16:15 Wed 16:15
Place CASEB26
Attendance In accordance with University policy, students are expected to attend all lectures. Regular attendance and participation in class and problem sessions will be taken into positive consideration in determining the grades of all students.
Grading Midterm 30%
Final 35%
Homeworks 20%
Project 15%
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
Academic dishonesty in the form of cheating, plagiarism and collusion are serious offenses and will not be tolerated at Koc University. University Academic Regulations and the Regulations for Student Disciplinary Matters clearly define the policy and the disciplinary action to be taken in case of academic dishonesty. However, if proven guilty, usually the toughest punishment is given to the student, especially if (s)he tries to mislead the commission by lying to them.
Cheating includes, but is not limited to, copying from a classmate or providing answers or information, either written or oral to others. Plagiarism is borrowing or using someone else’s writing or ideas without giving written acknowledgement to the author. This includes copying from a fellow student’s paper or from a text without properly citing the source. Collusion is getting unauthorized help from another person or having someone else write one’s paper or assignment.
Course Outline
Tentative schedule
Chapter 1: Mole Balances (0.5 week)
Chapter 2: Conversion and Reactor Sizing (0.5week)
Chapter 3: Rate Law and Stoichiometry
Collision theory (1 week)
Transition State Theory (1 week)
Chapter 4: Isothermal Reactor Design (0.5week)
Chapter 5: Collection and Analysis of Rate Data (0.5 week)
Chapter 6: Multiple Reactions (0.5 week)
1,5 weeks
Chapter 7: Reaction Mechanisms, Pathways, Bioreactions and Bioreactors
One week
Chapter 8: Steady-State Nonisothermal Reactor Design
One week
Chapter 9: Unsteady-state Nonisothermal Reactor Design
Two weeks
Chapter 10: Catalysis and Catalytic Reactors
Kinetics of enzyme-catalyzed reactions
Kinetics of substrate utilization and biomass production
One Week
Chapter 11: External Diffusion Effects on Heterogeneous Reactions
Two Weeks
Chapter 12: Diffusion and Reaction in Porous Catalysts
Two weeks
Student presentations on projects