Course

ChE-408: Process intensification and green chemistry

Lectures in this course (58)

Climate and Sustainability Action Week: Overview

Introduces the Climate and Sustainability Action Week, focusing on student engagement and project coordination.

Explores the impact of scale on process efficiency, the coupling of characteristic times, and the effect of segregation on reaction rates.

Batch to Continuous: Process Intensification and Green Chemistry

Covers the transition from batch to continuous processing in chemical engineering, focusing on advantages, limitations, high pressure processing, and examples of pressure-enhanced reactions.

Miniaturization: Fundamental Concepts and Applications

Explores fundamental concepts of miniaturization in chemical engineering, including process efficiency and the effect of scale on process parameters.

Mixing Effects on Chemical Reactions

Explores the impact of mixing on chemical reactions, focusing on segregation and mixing characterization.

Reactor Design: Mixing and Applications

Covers reactor design principles, applications, and limitations, focusing on the COBR reactor.

Green Chemistry: Principles and Applications

Covers the principles and applications of green chemistry, emphasizing renewable feedstocks and safe product design.

Microreactors: Passive Micromixers

Explores passive micromixers, chaotic mixers, and segmented flow in microreactors.

Crystallization Processes

Explores key dimensionless numbers, baffles design, and crystallization processes in oscillatory flow reactors, emphasizing the benefits of continuous oscillatory baffled crystallizers.

Green Chemistry: Principles and Metrics

Covers the principles and metrics of green chemistry, focusing on waste prevention, atom economy, and sustainable synthesis.

Microreactors: Mass Transfer and Mixing Phenomena

Delves into mass transfer and mixing phenomena in microreactors, exploring segmented flow, gas-liquid mass transfer, and active micromixers.

Heat Transfer in Microreactors

Explores heat transfer in microreactors, focusing on micro-channels and geometries.

Mixing and Segregation in Chemical Reactors

Explores mixing and segregation in chemical reactors, discussing the impact of segregation intensity on conversion and selectivity.

Multi-injection Microreactors

Explores multi-injection microreactors for exothermic reactions, focusing on heat distribution and hot spot reduction.

Rotating Packed Bed Reactors

Explores Rotating Packed Bed reactors, emphasizing high mass transfer rates and fast catalytic reactions for process intensification.

Mixing & Reaction: Segregation Effects in Chemical Reactors

Explores the influence of segregation on mixing and reaction processes in chemical reactors.

Green Chemistry: Principles and Applications

Covers waste prevention, cost of waste, integrated supply chain management, atom economy, phenol production, and carbaryl synthesis.

Spinning Disc Reactors: Principles and Applications

Explores the principles and applications of spinning disc reactors for enhanced mass and heat transfer in green chemistry.

Essentials of Life Cycle Assessment

Introduces the fundamentals of Life Cycle Assessment, covering sustainability, impact categories, and methodologies for evaluating environmental burdens.

RTD in Microreactors

Explores RTD in microreactors, analyzing radial dispersion, flow maldistribution, and reactor configurations to optimize chemical reactions.