 | |
| CHIM0012-2 | Chemical Kinetics
 |
|
| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
|
| Credits/ECTS : |
|
|
| Holder(s) : | Jean‑Paul Pirard |
|
| Language : | French language |
|
| Course contents : | Course in Chemical Kinetics : Stoichiometry. The extent of reaction. Definition of an elementary step. Transition-state theory. The rate of an elementary step. Thermodynamic formulation of rates. The collision theory and the equation of Arrhenius. Single reactions : open and closed sequences. The steady-state approximation. Kinetic treatment of catalytic sequences. Kinetic treatment of chain reactions. Principle of microscopic reversibility. Kinetics of polymerisation. The rate-determining step. Shift in rate-determining step. Rate-determining active centers. Ambiguity of simplified kinetics. |
|
| Course objective : | Notions of chemical kinetics necessary to calculate chemical reactors and to study heterogeneous catalysis. |
|
| Prerequisites : | Good knowledge of the basic concepts of the courses of general chemistry. |
|
| Workshops : | Analysis of an article of chemical kinetics recently published in a scientific journal. This work is carried out by groups of two students, is presented in a written report by each student and is the subject of an oral interrogation. |
|
| Organization : | First semester |
|
| Written notes : | Written notes available for the whole course at the first lesson. These notes are accompanied with a booklet of exercises. |
|
| Assessment : | Oral examination on theory and written examination on exercises.
Oral interrogation on scientif article of chemical kinetics analysed during worshops. |
|
| Contacts : | Professeur Jean-Paul PIRARD
Department of Applied Chemistry
Chemical Engineering Laboratory
University of Liège
Institut de Chimie - B6a
4000 Liège, Belgium
Tel. : 32-(0)4-366 35 58
Fax : 32-(0)4-366 35 45
e-mail : Jean-Paul.Pirard@ulg.ac.be |
|
