3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Upper Division
This course will introduce students to the tenets of kinetics/rates of chemical/biochemical reactions. Reaction rate models will be developed and used to design basic ideal reactors and non-ideal flow reactors. Models for homogeneous, heterogeneous, and catalytic reactions will be developed and used to develop reactor designs. A variety of computational numerical modeling skills will be used in the solution of these models, including numerical interpolation, and numerical solution of set of differential equations. MatLAB software programming tools will be used by students for computational analysis.
Learning Outcomes1Gain an understanding of the basic concepts of reaction kinetics for chemical and biochemical systems.
2Gain an understanding of basic engineering reactor design models.
3Gain an understanding of the application of kinetic models to reaction processes involving diffusive and convective mass transport.
4Understand how kinetic reaction and reactor design models are applied to food and biological engineering processes.
5Apply mathematical skills to developing analytical and numerical solutions.
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