Chemical Reaction Technology 2nd Edition by Dmitry Yu Murzin ISBN 9783110712520 3110712520

Chapter 1 Chemical technology as science

1.1 Basic principles

1.1.1 Continuous or batch?

1.1.2 Multilevel chemical processing

1.1.3 Large or small chemical plants?

1.2 Alternative production routes

1.3 Evaluation of chemical processes

1.4 Chemical process design

1.4.1 Economic aspects

1.4.2 Flow schemes

1.4.3 Sustainable and safe chemical technology: process intensification

1.4.4 Waste management

1.4.5 Conceptual process design

1.4.6 Process control (compiled together with Dr. Eugene Mourzine, University of Akron)

1.4.7 Product design

1.4.8 Patents

Chapter 2 Physico-chemical foundations of chemical processes

2.1 Stoichiometry

2.2 Thermodynamics

2.3 Catalysis

2.4 Kinetics

2.5 Mass transfer

Chapter 3 Chemical processes and unit operations

3.1 Overview of unit operations

3.2 Mechanical and hydromechanical processes

3.2.1 Sedimentation

3.2.2 Filtration

3.2.3 Mixing of emulsions

3.2.4 Size reduction

3.2.5 Size enlargement

3.3 Mass transfer processes

3.3.1 Distillation

3.3.2 Extraction

3.3.3 Adsorption

3.3.4 Absorption

3.3.5  Crystallization and precipitation

3.3.6 Leaching

3.4 Chemical reactors

3.4.1 Homogeneous processes

3.4.2 Non-catalytic heterogeneous processes

3.4.3 Catalytic reactors

Chapter 4 Chemical process industry

4.1 General overview

4.2 Feedstock for chemical process industries

4.3 Oil refining

4.4 Natural gas processing

4.5 Processing of coal

4.6 Biomass processing

Chapter 5 Hydrogen and syngas generation

5.1 Steam reforming of natural gas

5.2 Gasification

5.3 Water-gas shift reaction

Chapter 6 Cracking

6.1 General

6.2 Visbreaking

6.3 Hydrocracking

6.4 Fluid catalytic cracking

6.5 Steam cracking

Chapter 7 Isomerization

7.1 Skeletal isomerization

7.2 Combining skeletal isomerization and dehydrogenation: catalytic reforming of gasoline fractions

7.3 Epimerization

Chapter 8 Halogenation

8.1 Radical chlorination

8.1.1 Liquid-phase chlorination

8.1.2 Gas-phase chlorination

8.2 Catalytic chlorination

8.3 Hydrohalogenation

8.4 Oxychlorination

8.5 Fluorination

Chapter 9 Oxidation

9.1 Oxidation of inorganic compounds

9.1.1 Nitric acid

9.1.2 Sulphuric acid

9.1.3 The Claus process

9.1.4 Deacon reaction

9.2 Oxidation of organic compounds

9.2.1 Heterogeneous catalytic oxidation

9.2.2 Liquid-phase oxidation

Chapter 10 Hydrogenation and dehydrogenation

10.1 General

10.2 Ammonia synthesis

10.3 Gas-phase hydrogenation

10.4 Liquid-phase hydrogenation

10.4.1 Nitrobenzene hydrogenation

10.4.2 Liquid-phase C5+ olefins hydrogenation

10.5 Hydrotreating

10.6 Dehydrogenation

10.6.1 Dehydrogenation of light alkanes

10.6.2 Dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene

Chapter 11 Reactions involving water: hydration, dehydration, etherification, hydrolysis, and esterification

11.1 Hydration and dehydration

11.2 Hydrolysis

11.2.1 Acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of wood

11.2.2 Enzymatic hydrolysis of acyl-l-amino acids

11.2.3 Hydrolysis of fatty acid triglycerides

11.3 Esterification

Chapter 12 Alkylation

12.1 Alkylation of aromatics

12.2 Alkylation of olefins

12.3 O-Alkylation

12.4 N-Alkylation

12.5 Oxyalkylation

Chapter 13 Reactions with CO, CO2, and synthesis gas

13.1 Carbonylation

13.2 Carboxylation

13.2.1 Kolbe-Schmidt synthesis

13.2.2 Synthesis of ethylene glycol

13.2.3 Urea from CO2 and ammonia

13.2.4 Synthesis of melamine

13.3 Methanol from synthesis gas

13.4 Hydrocarbons from synthesis gas: Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

13.5 Reactions of olefins with synthesis gas: hydroformylation

Chapter 14 Key reactions in the synthesis of intermediates: nitration, sulfation, sulfonation, alkali fusion, ketone, and aldehyde condensation

14.1 Nitration

14.2 Sulfation and sulfonation

14.2.1 Sulfation

14.2.2 Sulfonation

14.3 Alkali fusion

14.4 Carbonyl condensation reactions

14.4.1 Condensation with olefins (Prins reaction)

14.4.2 Condensation with aromatic compounds

14.4.3 Aldol condensation

14.5 Caprolactam production

14.5.1 Condensation of cyclohexanone to cyclohexanone oxime and subsequent Beckmann rearrangement

14.5.2 Methods for caprolactam production

Chapter 15 Oligomerization and polymerization

15.1 Combining double bond isomerization, oligomerization, and metathesis: production of linear alkenes (SHOP)

15.2 Polymers

15.3 Step-growth polymerization

15.4 Polymerization process options

15.4.1 Homogeneous polymerization in substance

15.4.2 Homogeneous polymerization in solution

15.5 Heterogeneous polymerization

15.5.1 Precipitation polymerization

15.5.2 Suspension and emulsion polymerization

Final words

Index