Learn Chemical Reaction Engineering through Reasoning, Not MemorizationEssentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering is the complete, modern introduction to chemical reaction engineering for todays undergraduate students. Starting from the strengths of his classicElements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Fourth Edition, in this volume H. Scott Fogler added new material and distilled the essentials for undergraduate students.Foglers unique way of presenting the material helps students gain a deep, intuitive understanding of the fields essentials through reasoning, using a CRE algorithm, not memorization. He especially focuses on important new energy and safety issues, ranging from solar and biomass applications to the avoidance of runaway reactions.Thoroughly classroom tested, this text reflects feedback from hundreds of students at the University of Michigan and other leading universities. It also provides new resources to help students discover how reactors behave in diverse situationsincluding many realistic, interactive simulations on DVD-ROM.New Coverage IncludesGreater emphasis on safety: following the recommendations of theChemical Safety Board (CSB), discussion of crucial safety topics, including ammonium nitrate CSTR explosions, case studies of the nitroaniline explosion, and the T2 Laboratories batch reactor runawaySolar energy conversions: chemical, thermal, and catalytic water spillingAlgae production for biomassSteady-state nonisothermal reactor design: flow reactors with heat exchangeUnsteady-state nonisothermal reactor design with case studies of reactor explosionsAbout the DVD-ROMThe DVD contains six additional, graduate-level chapters covering catalyst decay, external diffusion effects on heterogeneous reactions, diffusion and reaction, distribution of residence times for reactors, models for non-ideal reactors, and radial and axial temperature variations in tubular reactions. Extensive additional DVD resources includeSummary notes, Web modules, additional examples, derivations, audio commentary, and self-testsInteractive computer games that review and apply important chapter conceptsInnovative Living Example Problems with Polymath code that can be loaded directly from the DVD so students can play with the solution to get an innate feeling of how reactors operateA 15-day trial of Polymath is included, along with a link to the Fogler Polymath siteA complete, new AspenTech tutorial, and four complete example problemsVisual Encyclopedia of Equipment, Reactor Lab, and other intuitive toolsMore than 500 PowerPoint slides of lecture notes Additional updates, applications, and information are available atwww.umich.edu/~essen andwww.essentialsofcre.com.
