Description
This guidebook features a collection of tutorial-style engineering articles providing practical guidance for the selection, design, operation, and maintenance of reactor-based systems used to convert raw materials into intermediates and finished products. It includes detailed discussions of widely used chemical conversions, reactor designs, and instrumentation/control considerations, along with guidance for biotechnology and fermentation-related systems.
Features & Benefits
- Engineering guidance for agitated reactors, CSTRs, microreactors, and millichannel reactors
- Strategies to maximize conversion rates, output, and process efficiency
- Tips for instrumentation, control, and reactor-scale-up challenges
- Practical guidance for fermentation and bioprocessing reactor systems
- Case studies of industrial chemical conversions for methanol, olefins, acrylic acid, and more
- Design and operational guidance for hygienic and large-scale fermentation systems
- Recommendations for process revamps and performance improvements
Audience
- Process, chemical, and biochemical engineers
- Plant operators and maintenance personnel
- Project engineers and process designers
- Researchers and technical managers in chemical and biotechnology industries
- Safety, instrumentation, and control engineers
Articles Include
- Harnessing Biotechnology: A Practical Guide
- Synthetic Biology for Chemical Production
- Methanol Production from Natural Gas
- LDPE via a High-Pressure Tubular Process
- Mechanical Design Aspects for High-Performance Agitated Reactors
- Methanol-to-Propylene Technology
- Reactor Systems: Improving Mass-Transfer-Limited Reactions
- Microreactors: Lessons Learned From Industrial Applications
- Fermentation
- Sulfuric Acid Production from Sulfur
- Ethylene Glycol Production from Synthesis Gas
- Millichannel Reactors: A Practical Middle Ground for Production
- Chemical Process Plants: Plan for Revamps
- Bio-acrylic Acid Production from Glucose
- ‘Green’ Ethylene Production
- Acrylic Acid Production via Propylene Oxidation
- Distillation, Part 1: Experimental Validation of Column Simulations
- Cyclohexane Production from Benzene and Hydrogen
- Adiabatic-Temperature Rise: An Awkward Calculation Made Simple
- CSTRs: Bound for Maximum Conversion
- A Guide To: Methane Reforming
- Producing Ethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass
- Urea Production from NH3 via a Self-Stripping Process
- Acrylonitrile Production from Propylene
- Filtration and Separation During Chemical Process Operations: Avoid Common Errors
- Liquid-Liquid Extraction
- Photochemical Processes in Stirred Tank Reactors
- Improving Data Analytics in Batch Manufacturing
- Mass Transfer in Fermentation Scaleup
- Methanol-to-Olefins Process
- Hydrogen Production from Natural Gas
- Ammonia Production from Natural Gas
- Propylene Oxide Production
- Large-Scale Fermentation Systems: Hygienic Design Principles
- Design and Operating Principles for Bioprocesses
- Ethylene Production via Cracking of Ethane-Propane
- Hydrogen Cyanide Production
- Ethylene Glycol Production
- Terephthalic Acid Production from p-Xylene
- Acetic Acid Production from Methanol
- CSTR Design for Reversible Reactions
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 139
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