index.Rmd

--- 
title: "Notes for CHE5314 course @ UCV"
author: "Ali G. Lara"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
documentclass: book
bibliography: [book.bib, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
description: "This is my note compilation for the course of Chemical Reaction Design at Central University of Venezuela."

---
# Introduction {-}

```{r, echo=FALSE}
library(png)
library(grid)

knitr::opts_template$set(fullwidth = list(
  fig.width = 10, fig.height = 6, fig.lp='fig:', echo=FALSE, 
  fig.retina = 1, out.width = '50%', fig.align='center'))

```

```{r mindmap2, out.width = "80%", echo=FALSE}
img <- readPNG("figures/Reactor_Design_map.png")
grid.raster(img)
```

This is an _online_ book written in **Markdown** and **LaTeX** where I published the personal notes that I used to use while I was lecturing Chemical Reactor Design at the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.

Because it is an informal recompilation of my notes, this material is not a comprehensive book where you will find details in concepts of the area. However, it is a relatively straightforward guide for an intermediate undergraduate student of Chemical Engineering who has taken an introductory course on Chemical reaction kinetics.

Besides concepts and mathematical deductions, I added typical problems solved in Python. Most of the illustrations given are modifications of examples taken from classic textbooks like [Fogler](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Essentials_of_Chemical_Reaction_Engineer/eyGKAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0) or [Roberts](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chemical_Reactions_and_Chemical_Reactors/8jBuDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0).