Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis Using Mathematica

1.2 Basics of the Language......Page 25
1.3 Simple Commands......Page 26
1.4 Table, Plot, Map, and Plot3D......Page 27
1.5 Lists and ListPlot, Fit, and Show......Page 54
1.6 Solve and NSolve......Page 63
1.7 Differentiate and Integrate......Page 67
1.8 DSolve......Page 70
1.9 NDSolve......Page 76
1.10 Units Interconversion......Page 80
1.11 Summary......Page 82
2.1 The Conservation of Mass Principle and the Concept of a Control Volume......Page 83
2.2 Geometry and the Left-Hand Side of the Mass Balance Equation......Page 111
2.3 Summary......Page 136
3.1 The Right-Hand Side of the Mass Balance Equation......Page 137
3.2 Mechnaism of Water Flow from Tank - Torricelli\'s Law, A Constitutive Relationship......Page 138
3.3 Experiment and the Constitutive Equation......Page 140
3.4 Solving for Level as a Function of Time......Page 148
3.5 Mass Input, Output, and Control......Page 149
3.6 Control......Page 167
3.7 Summary......Page 174
4.1 The Concept of the Component Balance......Page 175
4.2 Concentration versus Density......Page 177
4.4 Multicomponent Systems......Page 178
4.5 Liquid and Soluble Solid......Page 187
4.6 Washing a Salt Solution from a Vessel......Page 199
4.7 The Pulse Input Tracer Experiment and Analysis......Page 204
4.8 Mixing......Page 211
4.9 Summary......Page 227
5 Multiple Phases-Mass Transfer......Page 229
5.1 Mass Transfer versus Diffusion......Page 230
5.2 Salt Dissolution......Page 231
5.3 Batch......Page 233
5.4 Fit to the Batch Data......Page 238
5.5 Semicontinuous: Pseudo Steady State......Page 242
5.6 Full Solution......Page 244
5.7 Liquid-Liquid System......Page 249
5.8 Summary......Page 272
6.1 Adsorption......Page 273
6.3 Permeation-Adsorption and Diffusion......Page 287
6.4 Expanding Cell......Page 306
6.5 Summary......Page 320
7 Reacting Systems-Kinetics and Batch Reactors......Page 321
7.1 How Chemical Reactions Take Place......Page 322
7.2 No-Flow/Batch System......Page 325
7.3 Simple Irreversible Reactions - Zeroth to Nth Order......Page 327
7.4 Reversible Reactions - Chemical Equilibrium......Page 341
7.5 Complex Reactions......Page 352
7.6 Summary......Page 384
8.1 Introduction to Flow Reactors......Page 386
8.2 Semicontinuous Systems......Page 388
8.3 Negligible Volume Change......Page 389
8.4 Large Volume Change......Page 396
8.5 Pseudo-Steady State......Page 402
8.6 Summary......Page 405
9.1 Continuous Flow-Stirred Tank Reactor......Page 406
9.2 Steady-State CSTR with Higher-Order, Reversible Kinetics......Page 410
9.3 Time Dependence - The Transient Approach to Steady-State and Saturation Kinetics......Page 415
9.4 The Design of an Optimal CSTR......Page 424
9.5 Plug Flow Reactor......Page 430
9.6 Solution of the Steady-State PFR......Page 433
9.7 Mixing Effects on Selectivities - Series and Series-Parallel with CSTR and PFR......Page 441
9.8 PFR as a Series of CSTRs......Page 447
9.9 Residence Time Distribution......Page 458
9.10 Time-Dependent PFR-Complete and Numerical Solutions......Page 474
9.12 Equations, Initial Conditions, and Boundary Conditions......Page 475
9.13 Summary......Page 480
10.1 The Level-Controlled Tank......Page 481
10.2 Batch Competitive Adsorption......Page 489
10.3 A Problem in Complex Kinetics......Page 496
10.4 Transient CSTR......Page 500
10.5 CSTR-PFR - A Problem in Comparison and Synthesis......Page 504
10.6 Membrane Reactor - Overcoming Equilibrium with Simultaneous Separation......Page 510
10.7 Microbial Population Dynamics......Page 518
Index......Page 527