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Lecture

Adiabatic Reactor Design

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ChE-340: The engineering of chemical reactions

Ce cours applique les concepts de la cinétique chimique et des bilans de masse et d'énergie pour résoudre les problèmes de génie des réactions chimiques, en mettant l'accent sur les applications industrielles. Les étudiants développent leur capacité d'anal ...

Description

This lecture covers the design of adiabatic reactors, focusing on a specific example involving the isomerization of normal butane to isobutene. The presentation includes calculations for reactor volume, equilibrium conversion, and energy balances. It also discusses the numerical evaluation of integrals for solving differential equations in reactor design.

Instructors (3)

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian

Albert Renken

Thierry Chappuis

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Ontological neighbourhood

Energy engineering

Nuclear power: Topics in nuclear power

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity generation and in nuclear marine propulsion. Heat from nuclear fission is passed to a working fluid (water or gas), which in turn runs through steam turbines. These either drive a ship's propellers or turn electrical generators' shafts. Nuclear generated steam in principle can be used for industrial process heat or for district heating.

Breeder reactor

A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fuelled with more commonly available isotopes of uranium and thorium, such as uranium-238 or thorium-232, as opposed to the rare uranium-235 which is used in conventional reactors. These materials are called fertile materials since they can be bred into fuel by these breeder reactors. Breeder reactors achieve this because their neutron economy is high enough to create more fissile fuel than they use.

Numerical integration

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Light-water reactor

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Pressurized water reactor

A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with notable exceptions being the UK, Japan and Canada). In a PWR, the primary coolant (water) is pumped under high pressure to the reactor core where it is heated by the energy released by the fission of atoms. The heated, high pressure water then flows to a steam generator, where it transfers its thermal energy to lower pressure water of a secondary system where steam is generated.

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