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Chapter 1: Mole Balances
Industrial Reactor Photos
One of the biggest complaints, that chemical engineering students have, is that they never get to see the equipment that they're spending so much time designing. Heat exchangers, pumps, containment vessels, etc. all remain abstract "little black boxes," and reactors are the worst culprits, because they're used in almost every homework assignment (at least in reaction engineering). So, we've taken the liberty of including pictures of some common (and not-so-common) industrial reactors on our pages.
There are a wide variety of reactors in use in the chemical processing industry. The list of photos (below) is just a small sampling of these reactors, and we have received permission from the respective companies to show them to you here.
Reactor System [BP, formally Amoco]
- Spherical Ultraforming Unit
[BP, formally Amoco]
- Three Spherical Ultraforming Units
[BP, formally Amoco]
- Spherical Ultraforming Unit in
Series [BP, formally Amoco]
- Hydrotreating Unit [BP, formally Amoco]
- CSTR (cutaway view)
[Pfaudler, Inc.]
- Batch Reactor
[Pfaudler, Inc.]
- Batch Reactor Stirring Apparatus
[Pfaudler, Inc.]
We have received a number of photos from SASOL, Ltd. and British Petroleum (BP), so we made separate pages for them.
Reactor System Used at BP, formally Amoco
Spherical Reactor
Three Spherical Reactors
Spherical Reactors Connected in Series
Hydrotreating Unit
Cutaway View of CSTR
Batch Reactor
Batch Reactor Stirring Apparatus
