Chemical Reaction Engineering: Rate Laws

This lecture covers the determination of rate laws in chemical reactions, including the relationship between reaction rates and reaction orders, reversible vs. irreversible reactions, and the variation of equilibrium constants and rate constants with temperature. It also discusses the importance of stoichiometry, the power law models, and the steps involved in the algorithm for chemical reaction engineering. The lecture emphasizes the significance of energy barriers, activation energy, and the fraction of molecular collisions with sufficient energy to react. The Arrhenius equation and its application in determining the rate constant at different temperatures are also explored.