2008 Annual Meeting

Session: A Century of Reactor Design and Kinetics

This session will feature invited presentations from international experts, representing both academic and industrial perspectives. The presenters will give their perspectives on how the future of reaction engineering education will be shaped by the past.

Chair

Charles J. Coronella, University of Nevada, Reno

Co-Chair

Scott A. Gold, University of Dayton

Presentations

12:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

12:32 PM

(258a) Evolution of Chemical Reaction Engineering
Octave Levenspiel

01:02 PM

(258b) Chemical Rection Engineering (CRE) Education: From the Era of Slide Rules to the Digital Age
H Scott Fogler, Michael B. Cutlip

01:32 PM

(258c) From Ethanol and Butanol Fermentations to Cell- and Tissue-Culture ... and Back to Biofuels, 100 Years of Bioreactor Design, Operation and Challenges
Eleftherios Papoutsakis

02:02 PM

(258d) Ultra-High Temperature Transport Tube Reactor Processing - from Electrical to Solar Heating
Alan W. Weimer

02:47 PM

Panel Discussion