A Reactor is equipment which is used to carry out chemical reaction between two or more than two fluids to achieve desired product. A typical medium sized chemical plant may contain many Heat Exchangers, Separation devices (Distillation Column) but usually on one or occasionally two chemical reactors. However, the reactor lies at the heart of the process, since the conversion that it causes to take place is the reason for building the plant. Reactor design uses information, knowledge, and experience from a variety of areas-thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and economics. Chemical Reaction Engineering is the synthesis of all these factors with the aim of properly designing a Chemical Reactor.
Objectives of Reactor
The objective of the Reactor, it should be more efficient in processing and waste minimization. The other aspect is not only economically important but also contributes to determine efforts to ensure that harmful material is not present in effluent streams leaving plant. The above objectives are better achieved by improvement in Reactor design.
