Chemical Reaction Engineering

by Octave Levenspiel

Chemical reaction engineering is concerned with the exploitation of chemical reactions on a commercial scale. It's goal is the successful design and operation of chemical reactors. This text emphasizes qualitative arguments, simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. Simple ideas are treated first, and are then extended to the more complex.

Genres: Engineering, Chemistry, Science, Textbooks

688 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

Reviews

[Farhad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Old but fully surrounded! We can called it "But all about reactors!!"

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing explanations and examples.

[Will Oakes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Revisited this for a refresher on Rate Law

[Valentin Chirosca · Rating 4 out of 5]

byRobert Ashe AM Technology

Small chemical reactors offer a number of benefits compared to large reactors, such as better heat transfer and mixing. While small batch vessels are impractical at the industrial scale, continuous flow reactors can provide the benefits of small physical size without the practical difficulties of multiple vessels. This article considers the four basic needs of flow reactors (volumetric capacity, heat transfer, plug flow and mixing) ...

While as few as three tanks in series have been employed by some users, a substantial improvement in plug flow (in terms of residence time distribution) is observed by using ten stages

by Valentin Chirosca

We a working to save your time and money. Just how useful is a half century old textbook. Excellent resource for first look informing customers.

Pace is leisurely, and where needed, time is taken to consider why certain assumptions are made,...to develop new ways of thinking and new intuitions.

[Anum · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Chemical Reaction Engineering" by Octave Levenspiel offers an excellent introduction to the subject. The text is well compiled, the examples are very helpful and the problems at the end offer great practice.

However, I did feel that two things were missing from the edition I studied:

1. The answers to the problems should have been provided for better assistance.
2. The examples should have included a little more explanation. At places I wasn't sure whether the procedure described in the book was at fault or I was missing the point. :/

[Ahmad Ashkaibi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is number one in chemical reaction engineering.....

[Ankit Raj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall good ...............

[Kareem Mohamed · Rating 4 out of 5]

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