Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Engineering

Chemical Reaction Engineering is a specialisation in industrial chemistry or chemical engineering that manages chemical reactors. It is also known as reaction engineering or reactor engineering. The word is frequently used to refer especially to chemical action reaction systems when the reactor has either a homogeneous or heterogeneous catalyst. Chemical reaction engineering attempts to explain the most basic reactor design by studying and optimising chemical reactions. In order to connect reactor performance to feed composition and operating circumstances, it is crucial to consider the interactions of flow phenomena, mass transfer, heat transfer, and reaction dynamics. Chemical kinetics includes investigations into how various experimental conditions can affect a chemical process's speed and produce information about the mechanism and transition states of the reaction, as well as the creation of mathematical models that can be used to describe the properties of a chemical process. In chemical engineering, chemical kinetics offers information on residence time and heat transfer during a chemical reactor, and as a result, the molar mass distribution in polymer chemistry.