1 A Primer of Mathematica
1.1 Getting Started in Mathematica
1.2 Basics of the Language
1.3 Simple Commands
1.4 Table, Plot, Map, and Plot3D
1.5 Lists and ListPlot, Fit, and Show
1.6 Solve and NSolve
1.7 Differentiate and Integrate
1.8 DSolve
1.9 NDSolve
1.10 Units Interconversion
1.11 Summary
2 Elementary Single- Component Systems
2.1 The Conservation of Mass Principle and the Concept of a Control Volume
2.2 Geometry and the Left-Hand Side of the Mass Balance Equation
2.3 Summary
3 The Draining Tank and Related Systems
3.1 The Right-Hand Side of the Mass Balance Equation
3.2 Mechnaism of Water Flow from Tank - Torricelli's Law, A Constitutive Relationship
3.3 Experiment and the Constitutive Equation
3.4 Solving for Level as a Function of Time
3.5 Mass Input, Output, and Control
3.6 Control
3.7 Summary
4 Multiple-Component Systems
4.1 The Concept of the Component Balance
4.2 Concentration versus Density
4.3 The Well-Mixed System
4.4 Multicomponent Systems
4.5 Liquid and Soluble Solid
4.6 Washing a Salt Solution from a Vessel
4.7 The Pulse Input Tracer Experiment and Analysis
4.8 Mixing
4.9 Summary
5 Multiple Phases-Mass Transfer
5.1 Mass Transfer versus Diffusion
5.2 Salt Dissolution
5.3 Batch
5.4 Fit to the Batch Data
5.5 Semicontinuous: Pseudo Steady State
5.6 Full Solution
5.7 Liquid-Liquid System
5.8 Summary
6 Adsorption and Permeation
6.1 Adsorption
6.2 Permeation
6.3 Permeation-Adsorption and Diffusion
6.4 Expanding Cell
6.5 Summary
7 Reacting Systems-Kinetics and Batch Reactors
7.1 How Chemical Reactions Take Place
7.2 No-Flow/Batch System
7.3 Simple Irreversible Reactions - Zeroth to Nth Order
7.4 Reversible Reactions - Chemical Equilibrium
7.5 Complex Reactions
7.6 Summary
8 Semi-Continuous Flow Reactors
8.1 Introduction to Flow Reactors
8.2 Semicontinuous Systems
8.3 Negligible Volume Change
8.4 Large Volume Change
8.5 Pseudo-Steady State
8.6 Summary
9 Continuous Stirred Tank and the Plug Flow Reactors
9.1 Continuous Flow-Stirred Tank Reactor
9.2 Steady-State CSTR with Higher-Order, Reversible Kinetics
9.3 Time Dependence - The Transient Approach to Steady-State and Saturation Kinetics
9.4 The Design of an Optimal CSTR
9.5 Plug Flow Reactor
9.6 Solution of the Steady-State PFR
9.7 Mixing Effects on Selectivities - Series and Series-Parallel with CSTR and PFR
9.8 PFR as a Series of CSTRs
9.9 Residence Time Distribution
9.10 Time-Dependent PFR-Complete and Numerical Solutions
9.11 Transient PFR
9.12 Equations, Initial Conditions, and Boundary Conditions
9.13 Summary
10 Worked Problems
10.1 The Level-Controlled Tank
10.2 Batch Competitive Adsorption
10.3 A Problem in Complex Kinetics
10.4 Transient CSTR
10.5 CSTR-PFR - A Problem in Comparison and Synthesis
10.6 Membrane Reactor - Overcoming Equilibrium with Simultaneous Separation
10.7 Microbial Population Dynamics
Index