Green Chemical Engineering An Introduction to Catalysis, Kinetics, and Chemical Processes

Introduction

Principles of Green Chemistry and Green Chemical Engineering

Chemical Reaction Engineering: The Heart of Green Chemical Engineering

Kinetics of Chemical Reactions

Chemical Reactors: An Introduction

Appendix A: Catalysis and Chemisorption

Appendix B: Fitting Experimental Data to Linear Equations by Regression

Exercise Problems

MATLAB Programs

Homogeneous Ideal Reactors

Homogeneous Non-Ideal Reactors

Appendix C: Estimation of Peclet Number—Derivation of Equation Using Method of Moments

Exercise Problems

MATLAB Programs

Heterogeneous Non-Catalytic Reactors

Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions and Reactors

Exercise Problems

MATLAB Programs

Novel Reactor Technology

Some Reactor Design Softwares and Their Applications

ASPEN Plus Simulation of RCSTR Model

Application of Green Catalysis and Processes

Case Study 1: Treatment of Industrial Effluents Using Various Green Catalyses

Case Study 2: Thermolysis of Petrochemical Industrial Effluent

Case Study 3: Catalytic Wet-Air Oxidation Processes

References

Further Reading

Biography

Suresh Sundaramurthy is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India. He holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in the area of environmental pollution control. He has held various research positions at a number of universities in India including Pondicherry University, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and International Centre for Materials Science, JNCASR, Bangalore. His research interests are in the areas of separation processes, reactor design, adsorption, catalysis, waste utilization, and nanomaterials. He has written a number of research articles and books in his area of research.

Sundaramoorthy Sithanandam is a professor of chemical engineering at Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, India. He obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, in the area of process control. He has over 28 years of teaching and research experience. He has held teaching and visiting research positions, respectively, at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, and National University of Singapore. His research interests are in the areas of model-based predictive control, membrane separations, process integration, and optimization. He has published many research articles and has delivered a number of keynote and invited lectures in international and national conferences.

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