Review Project: Reactor Design

Select any project of your choice from the list below, or you may propose your project. However,
in the later case, you need to discuss your idea with the module leader to finalise the project
before you proceed to work. You will be working independently.
List of project titles:
1. A fermentation reactor
2. Heterogeneous reactor (heterogeneous feed and homogeneous catalyst)
3. Fluidised bed reactor
4. Bi-phasic reactor
5. Membrane reactor
6. CSTR
7. Isothermal continuous reactor
8. Hydrogen reactor (a bio-chemical process)
9. Hydrogen reactor (a chemical process)
10. Hydrogen reactor (an electro-hydrolysis process)
REPORT OUTLINE:
Your report should contain the following components.
1.0. General Overview:
Write a critical review of the reaction system (this section should contain an overview of the
reaction system, type of reactor appropriate for your system, present state of the design of the
concerned reactor, reactor functionalities relevent to your system, safety aspects, and any design
and/or operation constrains).
[15% mark]
2.0. Scientific Aspect of the Chemical Reaction System:
Define your reaction system, review all the possible reactions involved in your system. Highlight
the reactions associated with your target product and dominant side reactions. Discuss the factors
that may influence the conversion and product yield.
[30% mark]
3.0. Reactor Design:
Justify your selection of an appropriate reactor for your system. The review of the safety aspect of
the reaction system and reactor design. Write a list of plausible assumptions to simplify the
system. Write design equations. Review design specification and set design specs for your system.
Write appropriate boundary conditions.
[30% mark]
4.0. Results and Discussions:
Write and discuss the results of your findings. Highlight the critical aspects of your system and
your design approach to overcome any difficulties encountered. Discuss design limitations in
terms of scientific, engineering and socio-economic constrain.
[15% mark]
5.0. Conclusions and Future Work:
Write the conclusion of your research and propose the future work that you think important to
push the design boundaries
[10% mark]