Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2nd Edition by Octave Levenspiel

An improved and simplified edition of this classic introduction to the principles of reactor design for chemical reactions of all types—homogeneous, catalytic, biochemical, gas, solid, extractive, etc. Adds new material on systems of deactivating catalysts, flow modeling and diagnosis of the ills of operating equipment, and new simple design procedures for packed bed and fluidized bed reactors.