Kinetics and Reaction Engineering

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Syllabi, schedules, course notes

• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Michigan
• Lecture notes (University of Michigan and University of Illinois)
• Course notes, examples, videos, Excel, and MATLAB files (University of Buffalo)

Textbooks

Screencasts

• LearnChemE (University of Colorado Boulder): More than 260 screencast videos for kinetics and reactor design, including example problems, introduction to topics, software tutorials, and exam review problems.
    

Interactive Simulations

• Living example problems (University of Michigan): More than 62 interactive problems prepared using Polymath, MATLAB, and Mathematica
• Reactor Lab (University of California, San Diego): 15 Web Labs and a Windows desktop app with 30 labs
• Virtual Catalytic Reactor Laboratory (University of Colorado Boulder): a virtual experiment that allows students to take data for a gas-phase catalytic reaction and fit kinetic parameters
• Interactive simulations (University of Colorado Boulder): More than 45 Mathematica-based interactive simulations that can be run with a free CDF player plug-in. Their main objective is to demonstrate concepts in kinetics and reaction engineering. Most of the simulations have accompanying screencasts that demonstrate how to use the simulation.
    

Interactive Self-Study Modules

• Self-Study Modules (University of Colorado Boulder): 12 self-study modules that include screencasts (with questions), ConcepTests, introductory screencasts, interactive simulations, list of equations and important points, example problem screencasts, and a summary.

ConcepTests

Multiple-choice conceptual questions for use in class with student response systems (clickers)

• LearnChemE (University of Colorado Boulder): More than 250 kinetics/reaction engineering ConcepTests. Contact LearnChemE@gmail.com to obtain access.
• AIChE Concept Warehouse (Oregon State University)

Software

• Polymath (Contact Dr. Robert Hesketh) Solves ODEs, linear equations, and nonlinear equations. Screencasts demonstrating Polymath use can be found here.
• CHEMKIN models and simulates gas-phase and surface chemistry
• MESMER: Open-source program that solves chemical master equation for reaction in order to predict rate constants.

Useful Links

• Chemical reaction engineering homepage (University of Michigan): Resources that supplement the Fogler Reaction Engineering textbook. These include computer games, web modules, additional homework problems, and more.
• Encyclopedia of chemical engineering equipment (University of Michigan)
• NIST kinetics database
• NIST chemistry webbook