CRE Asynchronous Learning

After completing Unit 1 of the text and the associated website material, the reader will be able to:

• Define the rate of chemical reactions
• Apply the mole balance equations to batch reactors, CSTRs, PFRs, and PBRs
• Describe two industrial reaction engineering systems
• Describe photos of real reactors

Text: Chapter 1, pages 1-34

Web: Read through the Summary Notes for Chapter 1, and do the self-tests located here.

Additionally, explore the Living Example Problems, Extra Help, Additional Materials, and so on under "Useful Links" here to further your understanding of the unit.

Lecture Notes: Read through the lecture notes for Lecture 1 located here

$Q1-1_A$,$Q1-2_A$, doing the five iClicker questions here

$P1-1_A$, using either the Wolfram or Python LEPs, found here

$P1-3_B$

$P1-4_A$, completing the Interactive Computer Game (ICG) Kinetics Challenge 1

$P1-5_B$

Watch the following videos:

• Batch Reactor Overview
• CSTR Overview
• Plug Flow Reactors Overview

$P1-11_A$

$P1-8$

$CDP1-A_A$