This book is designed as an undergraduate text in chemical engineering forcourses in chemical reactor engineering and kinetics. It covers the fundamentalsof describing and designing chemical processes by consideration of reactor type,product selectivity and yield, heat management, and mass transfer. It focuses onapplications such as catalytic processes, polymer processing and monomerproduction, solids processing, combustion reactors, bioreactors, and multiphasereactors. Environmental issues and reactor safety are also addressed.Industrical chemical processes are introduced from a historical perspective toshow students how changing feedstocks and markets have drive changes in chemicaltechnology and to introduce students to strategies for designing new processes.The text is short and focuses explicitly on the development of the ideasnecessary to design a chemical reactor for any application, either in existingtechnologies such as petroleum and commodity chemicals production or in newapplications such as materials processing and environmental modeling. Workexamples are given throughout the text, and over 300 homework problems areincluded.This text uses a notation of reaction stoichiometry and reactor mass balancewhich permits consideration of multiple reaction systems, nonisothermalreactors, nonideal flow patterns, and mass transfer in a natural way. Thenotation is kept simple so that students can see the principles of reactordesign without becoming lost in complex special cases. Numerical methods areused throughout to consider more complex problems.