ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 gave an introduction and overview of chemical reaction engineering and presented an introduction to some of the common reactor types. This chapter begins the development of the methodology required for the analysis of chemically reacting systems. The material presented in this chapter describes the development of the mole balance equations required for the analysis of three types of ideal reactors. To preserve simplicity at this stage in the development, temperature effects are not considered in this chapter. Three conditions must therefore be satis„ed. First, the reacting šuid must have a uniform temperature at all locations in the reactor. Second, the temperature at every point in the reactor must stay constant with time. Third, when a šow reactor is considered, the inlet and outlet streams must also have the same temperature. When these three constraints are met, it is not necessary to solve an energy balance equation to calculate the extent of reaction because the temperature is known for the entire system.
