The course is of postgraduate level, and its main goal is to elaborate and introduce a new perspective on the study of industrial reactors. The course is built upon basic undergraduate courses, namely Chemical Processes Engineering Ι and II, Transport Phenomena I and II, Computational Methods for Engineers, and Computer Programming. The study of industrial reactors requires the use of software tools to deal with the nonlinearities stemming from multiple reaction kinetics and/or from the transport phenomena. Thus, the course combines theory with computational exercises.

The topics include isothermal and non-isothermal, catalytic, semi-batch, membrane, non-ideal reactors, and microreactors, as well as multiple reactions (parallel, in series, complex), multiple steady states in reactors, and dynamic behavior of reactors and safety, and are visited by a case-study approach.