Green Chemical Engineering ─ An Introduction to Catalysis, Kinetics, and Chemical Processes

This book deals with energy and material balance applied to chemical reactors with catalysis to achieve a given purpose, including fundamentals of chemical reaction engineering. The authors explain reactor design fundamentals, from simple kinetic models to complex reactor systems involving heat/material transfer or multiple reaction contents. The book spans the full range from fundamentals of kinetics and heterogeneous catalysis via modern experimental and theoretical results of model studies to their equivalent large-scale industrial production processes. It also includes significant developments, with recent research case studies and literature. With a focus on practical application, rather than theory, the result is key knowledge for students at technical universities and professionals already working in industry.

Suresh Sundaramurthy is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India. He holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, in the area of environmental pollution control. He has held various research positions at a number of universities in India including Pondicherry University, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and International Centre for Materials Science, JNCASR, Bangalore. His research interests are in the areas of separation processes, reactor design, adsorption, catalysis, waste utilization, and nanomaterials. He has written a number of research articles and books in his area of research.

Sundaramoorthy Sithanandam is a professor of chemical engineering at Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, India. He obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, in the area of process control. He has over 28 years of teaching and research experience. He has held teaching and visiting research positions, respectively, at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, and National University of Singapore. His research interests are in the areas of model-based predictive control, membrane separations, process integration, and optimization. He has published many research articles and has delivered a number of keynote and invited lectures in international and national conferences.