Verma N. Chemical Reaction Engineering 2025

Textbook in PDF format

This book mainly deals with the design of flow reactors for homogeneous reactions. ChE CRE is built upon lecture notes of “Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRE)” that the author has taught at the undergraduate (UG) level. Few chapters are added toward the latter part of the book, dealing with the basics of heterogeneous chemical reaction engineering. ChE CRE is recommended for teaching the upper undergraduate program when the students have been exposed to stoichiometry, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, unit operation, and a few numerical techniques. ChE CRE comes with the audio lectures synchronized with the book chapters and is freely downloadable from the web-link prescribed in the book.
Chemical Processes
Chemical Reactions
Mechanism (Reaction Kinetics)
Constant-Volume Batch Reactor (Isothermal)
Batch Kinetics (Cont.)
Reactor Design—Introduction (Mixed Flow Reactor)
Plug Flow Reactor
Plug Flow Reactor (Cont.)
Equal Size MFR in Series
Recycle-Tubular Reactors
Autocatalytic Reactions (Or, Varying Order-Reactions?)
Multiple Reactions (Parallel)
Reactions in Series
Non-isothermal Operation Adiabatic Operation
Non-ideal Reactors
Mixing and RTD Study
Ideal Reactors
RTD Examples
Non-Segregated Model
Fluid-Particles Reactions (Non-catalytic)
Catalysts and Catalytic Reactions
Adsorption/Desorption
Porous Catalyst (Intraphase Transport + Kinetics)