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chemical reaction engineering Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

the information about principle of working various ideal chemical reactors (advantages, limitations, area of application, the mole balance etc.) and information about constant and non-constant volume system (so for reaction in gas and liquid phase).

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Classi­fic­ation of Reactions

In chemical reaction engine­ering probably the most useful scheme is the breakdown according to
the number and types of phases involved, the big division being between the homoge­neous and hetero­geneous systems.

A reaction is homoge­neous if it takes place in one phase alone. A reaction is hetero­geneous if it requires the presence of at least two phases to proceed at the rate that it does. It is immaterial whether the reaction takes place in one, two, or more phases; at an interface; or whether
the reactants and products are distri­buted among the phases or are all contained
within a single phase. All that counts is that at least two phases are necessary
for the reaction to proceed as it does.

Simple Reactor Types

Batch
plug flow
mixed flow