1. Introduction to Kinetics: Gas solid non-catalytic reaction
2. Introduction to Kinetics: Catalytic reactions in different reactors
3. Heterogeneous rate of reactions and different types of kinetic models
4. Basics of Kinetics of type A & B reactions
5. Shrinking Core Model
6. Shrinking Core Model II
7. Proof of Pseudo steady state assumption
8. Shrinking core model for type D reactions
9. Shrinking core model for type D reactions II
10. Reactors, Homogeneous reaction model, Design of non-catalytic gas solid reactors
11. Design of non-catalytic gas solid reactors II
12. Design of non-catalytic gas solid reactors III
13. Design equation for MF of solids, uniform gas composition, const. single particle size
14. Design equation for MF of solids, mixture of particles for different size
15. Design equation for MF of solids with elutriation
16. General Performance equation for non-catalytic gas solid reactions
17. Catalytic reactions (LHHW Kinetic model)
18. LHHW Kinetic model contd. Part I
19. LHHW Kinetic model contd. Part II
20. Industrially important catalytic reaction models
21. Inter and Intraphase effectiveness fator
22. Interface effectiveness factor & Generalized nonisothermal effectiveness
23. Generalized nonisothermal effectiveness factor for external mass transfer step II
24. Mass transfer correlations for various reactors
25. Isothermal intraphase effectiveness factor Part I
26. Isothermal intraphase effectiveness factor Part II
27. Non-isothermal intraphase effectiveness factor
28. Inter & Intraphase effectiveness factor II
29. Inter & Intraphase Mass transfer
30. Packed (fixed) bed catalytic reactor design
31. Graphical design of Fixed bed reactors
32. Packed Bed Design II
33. Design equations for Packed bed reactor design
34. Conservative Equations for Packed bed Reactor design
35. Problem solving session
36. Fluidized Bed Reactor Design Part I
37. Fluidized Bed Reactor Design Part II
38. Fluidized Bed Reactor Design Part III
39. Fluidized Bed Reactor Design Part IV
40. Fluidized Bed Reactor Models
41. Davidson Harrison model and Kunii Levenspiel model
42. Kunii-Levenspiel Model
43. Slurry Reactor Design

In simple terms, Chemical Engineering deals with the production of a variety of chemicals on large scale. Large scale production is associated with the engineering problems such as fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, mixing and all types of unit operations. These chemicals are produced through chemical reactions in a vessel called “Chemical Reactor”. Chemical Reactor is known as the heart of any chemical plant since the new chemicals are produced only in this vessel and the economics of the entire plant depends on the design of reactor.

Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRE) deals with the design of Chemical Reactors to produce chemicals. The design of Chemical Reactors is based on a few simple and useful concepts. Though the concepts are simple, it is not easy for the students to develop a feeling for these concepts unless the teacher explains by giving different day to day examples with which the students are familiar with. This is what I tried to do in these courses, one on homogeneous reactions (some call this as Chemical Reaction Engineering I) and heterogeneous reactions (some call this is as Chemical Reaction Engineering II).

After understanding the concepts, if we look at the subject of Chemical Reaction Engineering, it will be full of simple to complex mathematics. But, without understanding the concepts, the subject appears to be meaningless mathematical exercise and the student does not have “a feel for the design of the reactor." My experience at IIT Madras for the last 30+ years, unfortunately, is that, even most of the PG students who come for their Master’s and Doctorate degrees also do not have “the feel for the design of the reactor”. I find that this is due to lack of conceptual understanding of fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering.