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28241 Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis
Danish title: Kemisk reaktionskinetik og katalyse
Language:  Danish    ECTS-creditpoints:  7,5, External examination.   
Type:  civil engineering course, open university
Class schedule:   E2-B
Exam schedule:   F2-B (May 30 2002), E2-B (Dec 13 2001)
Scope and form:  Lectures, problem sessions, numerical exercise.
Evaluation:  Written exam and approval of coursework
Written examination counts 70%, evaluation of course work counts 30%.
Examination:  13-scale
Previous course:  36220
Prerequisites:   Knowledge about thermodynamics corresponding to 28220 or 10004 / 10005
Preferred prerequisites:  28120
Aim:  To present the theoretical basis of chemical kinetics and catalysis, so that the participants can use these basic concepts in the planning and operation of industrial chemical processes.
Contents:  Basic kinetic concepts, theories of reaction rates, elementary gas-phase reactions, elementary reactions in solution, reactions on surfaces and heterogeneous catalysis, composite reactions and chemical kinetic modelling.
Remarks:  The course is a condition or an advisable condition of other courses in FYS, IK and KT.
Contact:  Peter Glarborg, building 229, (+45) 4525 2840, pgl@kt.dtu.dk
Ib Chorkendorff, building 312, (+45) 4525 3170, ibchork@fysik.dtu.dk