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Advanced Reaction Engineering

By Prof. Taraknath Das   |   IIT Roorkee
Learners enrolled: 299   |  Exam registration: 9
ABOUT THE COURSE:
The reactor design and chemical kinetics are the key elements of synthesizing almost all industrial chemicals. The types of reactor (ideal/non-ideal), choosing a catalyst, product (desired) formation rate, by-product formation, catalyst deactivation and other parameters are also important aspects for an industrial reactor operation. This course is intended to improve the basic knowledge of final-year undergraduate and graduate-level (PG) students in Chemical Engineering. The course's primary objective is to enable the students to understand the analysis of various reactors that used in chemical industry. The course will reinforce understanding of the basic concept and principles of various industrial problems associated with reaction engineering. He is teaching the course (CHE-505 Advanced Reaction Engineering, CHN-505 Chemical Reactor Analysis, CH-427 Heterogeneous Catalysis and Reactor Design) since 2015.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG Final year and PG (M.Tech, PhD) students in Chemical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Polymer Science and Engineering, Environmental Engineering,

PREREQUISITES: B.Tech, or B.E

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: PSUs, IOCL, ONGC, BPCL, Reliance Industries, Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering companies
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Minor 3 in Chemical
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 22 Jul 2024
End Date : 11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends : 05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends : 16 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 26 Oct 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week-1: Introduction of various reactors (BR, CSTR, PFR)
Week-2: Pressure drop in reactor design (PBR)
Week-3: Catalyst deactivation: types of deactivations, deactivation rate laws Temperature–time trajectories, Moving bed reactor (MBR), and straight-through transport reactor (STTR)
Week-4: Multi-phase reactors (Slurry reactor, Trickle bed reactor, Bioreactors)
Week-5: Bioreactors 
Week-6: Steady state non-isothermal reactor design: Energy Balance
Week-7: Multiple steady states
Week-8: non-ideal flow: RTD: Step/pulse input, Segregation model, Tank in series (TIS) model
Week-9: non-ideal flow: Various RTD Models: Dispersion model, the effect of dispersion on effluent concentration, Two-parameter model
Week-10: Surface reaction mechanism and model studies: Langmuir-Hinshelwood reaction kinetics, Eley-Rideal reaction kinetics, LHHW model and parameter estimation, Mars-Van Krevlen model, and parameter estimation, Diffusion, and reaction: Internal effectiveness factor, Falsified-kinetics, Weisz-Prater criteria, Mear’s criteria, temperature effect
Week-11: Collection and analysis of rate law data (ODE/Non-linear regression). Heterogeneous catalysis data analysis for reactor design (Numerical method, polynomial fit, integrating method, Non-linear regression)
Week-12: Catalyst synthesis and Catalyst characterization

Books and references

1.O. Levenspil, Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd Edn, Wiely and sons (2008)
2. Fogler H.S., “Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering”,4th Ed., Prentice Hall of India, 2014
3. Kulkarni Sulabha K., “Nanotechnology Principles and Practices”, 3rd Ed., Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2016
4. Banwell Colin N., and McCash Elaine M., “Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy”, 5th Ed., McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2013
5. Published articles from Journals on Catalysis, Reaction Engineering, Kinetics, and Material characterizations

Instructor bio

Prof. Taraknath Das

IIT Roorkee
Prof.Taraknath Das is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and Post-doc at Korea Institute of Technology (KIST), South Korea. He has developed his research lab in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Spectroscopy at IIT Roorkee.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 
26 October 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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