Kinetics of Materials
- kinetics and thermodynamics; chemical reactions, Homogeneous and Heterogeneous systems; chemical reactions and mass transport phenomena
- One-way reactions; reversible reactions; parallel reactions; consecutive reactions; elementary reactions and complex reactions; effect of concentration on rate of reaction
- mass action law; degree of reaction, rate constant; Integral method and differential method
- Mechanism of some complex reaction; intermediate complex and steady-state approximation
- Effect of temperature on reaction rate; explosion reactions and biological reactions
- rate constant relationship with temperature; Arrhenius equation; Boltzmann - Maxwell distribution
- Absolute rate theory & Collision theory
- effect of catalyst on reaction rate
- Mechanisms of catalytic reactions; Activation energy; Homogeneous and Heterogeneous catalysts
- Adsorption/Absorption; the role of surface in catalytic reactions (active sites); physical adsorption and chemical adsorption
- langmuir isotherm/Freundlich isotherm
- Geometrical and Empirical Modeling in heterogeneous reactions
- an introduction to mass transport in chemical systems; Diffusion and mass transport
- Ficks First law in dilute media/concentration profile/effective diffusion coefficient
- Ficks Second law/semi-infinite medium/concentration profile
- Shrinking Core model: diffusion through film and surface chemical reaction
- Shrinking Core Model: Diffusion through ash layer
- Shrinking Particle Model: diffusion through the film/mass transport coefficient
- empirical correlation/mass transport coefficient/Sherwood number/Schmidt Number