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Reaction engineering

Seven lessons on designing the reactor: batch reactors, continuous stirred tanks and plug flow tubes with their first-order design equations, reactors in series, temperature, heat and runaway reactions, and selectivity and catalysts.

Part of the Chemical engineer path.

Take first: Physical chemistry, Material and energy balances.

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How it works

Each lesson is a short read with worked examples, then a few practice questions. Some ask you to work out a number (grams, moles, kelvin, kilowatts), some have you pick an answer, and some have you tap steps into the right order. Keep a calculator handy; the question says how to round. You can try again as often as you like; after two misses there’s a button to show the answer. Where a lesson has one, the Particle Lab experiment lets you watch the idea happen with atoms and molecules.

What do I need to know first?

Physical chemistry (rate laws and Arrhenius) and Material and energy balances help. The first lesson recaps both. A calculator with an ln key is enough.

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For learning only. It isn’t lab safety training, an accredited qualification or engineering advice: real lab work and plant design follow your organization’s safety procedures, the safety data sheets and the codes that apply where you are. Worked numbers use rounded values and simple models, so check real designs against proper data.