Chemical Reactor Modeling—The Desirable and the Achievable
Reuel Shinnar · ACS symposium series · 1978
I. INTRODUCTION A significant number of reviews on reactor modeling were recently published ( 1, 2, 3 ). However, my intent is not to review current literature. What I want to do is present a rather personal overview of reactor modeling as a tool in the hand of the designer and practitioner, and the role the academic can play in helping the practitioner to improve his skills. A few years ago, a panel of industrial practitioners convened by NSF ( 4 ) came out with a statement, that most academic work in reaction modeling has become both irrelevant and unneccessary since the practitioner now has most of the tools he needs. While I agree that chemical reactor modeling has made tremendous progress in the last thirty years, I would hardly agree that our job is really finished. There are a great number of challenging and interesting problems that await solution. But there may be justification to