The Engineering of Chemical Reactions – Lanny D. Schmidt – 1st Edition

I learned about the chemical reactors in the knees of Rutherford Aris and Neal Amundson, when, as a surface chemist, I taught recitation sections and then lectured at the undergraduate course in Reaction Engineering in Minnesota. The text was Aris’ Elementary Chemical Reaction Analysis, a book that was obviously elegant but did not seem at first elementary.

He described the effects of porous pellet diffusion on chemical reactors and the complexities of non-isothermal reactors in a very logical way, but for many students it seemed to be an exercise in applied mathematics with dimensionless variables rather than a description of chemical reactors .