Cover......Page 1
An Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis Using Mathematica......Page 4
Preface for an Instructor......Page 11
Preface for the Student......Page 19
Acknowledgments......Page 23
1.2 Basics of the Language......Page 26
1.3 Simple Commands......Page 27
1.4 Table, Plot, Map, and Plot3D......Page 28
1.5 Lists and ListPlot, Fit, and Show......Page 55
1.6 Solve and NSolve......Page 64
1.7 Differentiate and Integrate......Page 68
1.8 DSolve......Page 71
1.9 NDSolve......Page 77
1.10 Units Interconversion......Page 81
1.11 Summary......Page 83
2.1 The Conservation of Mass Principle and the Concept of a Control Volume......Page 84
2.2 Geometry and the Left-Hand Side of the Mass Balance Equation......Page 112
2.3 Summary......Page 137
3.1 The Right-Hand Side of the Mass Balance Equation......Page 138
3.2 Mechnaism of Water Flow from Tank - Torricelli's Law, A Constitutive Relationship......Page 139
3.3 Experiment and the Constitutive Equation......Page 141
3.4 Solving for Level as a Function of Time......Page 149
3.5 Mass Input, Output, and Control......Page 150
3.6 Control......Page 168
3.7 Summary......Page 175
4.1 The Concept of the Component Balance......Page 176
4.2 Concentration versus Density......Page 178
4.4 Multicomponent Systems......Page 179
4.5 Liquid and Soluble Solid......Page 188
4.6 Washing a Salt Solution from a Vessel......Page 200
4.7 The Pulse Input Tracer Experiment and Analysis......Page 205
4.8 Mixing......Page 212
4.9 Summary......Page 228
5 Multiple Phases-Mass Transfer......Page 230
5.1 Mass Transfer versus Diffusion......Page 231
5.2 Salt Dissolution......Page 232
5.3 Batch......Page 234
5.4 Fit to the Batch Data......Page 239
5.5 Semicontinuous: Pseudo Steady State......Page 243
5.6 Full Solution......Page 245
5.7 Liquid-Liquid System......Page 250
5.8 Summary......Page 273
6.1 Adsorption......Page 274
6.3 Permeation-Adsorption and Diffusion......Page 288
6.4 Expanding Cell......Page 307
6.5 Summary......Page 321
7 Reacting Systems-Kinetics and Batch Reactors......Page 322
7.1 How Chemical Reactions Take Place......Page 323
7.2 No-Flow/Batch System......Page 326
7.3 Simple Irreversible Reactions - Zeroth to Nth Order......Page 328
7.4 Reversible Reactions - Chemical Equilibrium......Page 342
7.5 Complex Reactions......Page 353
7.6 Summary......Page 385
8.1 Introduction to Flow Reactors......Page 387
8.2 Semicontinuous Systems......Page 389
8.3 Negligible Volume Change......Page 390
8.4 Large Volume Change......Page 397
8.5 Pseudo-Steady State......Page 403
8.6 Summary......Page 406
9.1 Continuous Flow-Stirred Tank Reactor......Page 407
9.2 Steady-State CSTR with Higher-Order, Reversible Kinetics......Page 411
9.3 Time Dependence - The Transient Approach to Steady-State and Saturation Kinetics......Page 416
9.4 The Design of an Optimal CSTR......Page 425
9.5 Plug Flow Reactor......Page 431
9.6 Solution of the Steady-State PFR......Page 434
9.7 Mixing Effects on Selectivities - Series and Series-Parallel with CSTR and PFR......Page 442
9.8 PFR as a Series of CSTRs......Page 448
9.9 Residence Time Distribution......Page 459
9.10 Time-Dependent PFR-Complete and Numerical Solutions......Page 475
9.12 Equations, Initial Conditions, and Boundary Conditions......Page 476
9.13 Summary......Page 481
10.1 The Level-Controlled Tank......Page 482
10.2 Batch Competitive Adsorption......Page 490
10.3 A Problem in Complex Kinetics......Page 497
10.4 Transient CSTR......Page 501
10.5 CSTR-PFR - A Problem in Comparison and Synthesis......Page 505
10.6 Membrane Reactor - Overcoming Equilibrium with Simultaneous Separation......Page 511
10.7 Microbial Population Dynamics......Page 519
Index......Page 528