FYS473 Chemical and Biochemical Energy Conversion

Fundamental knowledge of reaction kinetics. Fundamental understanding for reactor design. Data analysis and interpretation. Mathematical methods for design of kinetics expression and fitting to experimental data. General overview of catalysts used and how the kinetics expressions are modified based on system homogeneity (homogeneous vs. heterogeneous systems). Simple as well as multiple reactions will be studied in different systems (biosystems, liquid-liquid, gas-gas, etc).

Students will be given the fundamental of chemical and biochemical conversion and its applications. Students will be taught the chemical kinetics of a process reaction, the interpretation of the results and the design of industrial reactors (ideal and non-ideal scenarios). The student will learn about the relevance of knowing the conversion ratio and how this is related to energy production as well as energy sustainability of a process. The students will learn the know-how of design of chemical reactors for different scenarios and will learn different cases such as adiabatic, isothermal, and auto-thermal equipment.