Thorugh a glass, darkly: kinetics and reactors for complex mixtures syncrude innovation award lecture

摘要

The concepts of chemical reaction engineering are powerful, because the most basic design equations are applicable to a wide range of physical phenomena. For example, the applicability of the ideal continuous-flow stirred tank reactor goes far beyond chemical reactors to include biological, medical and environmental processes. The difficulty in analyz- ing these processes is not in formulating an appropriate reactor equation, but in modeling the chemical kinetics.