Scientific Computing in Chemical Engineering

✍ Scribed by Stefan Artlich (auth.), Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Frerich Keil, Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Wolfgang Mackens, Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Heinrich Voß, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Werther (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Scientific Computing in Chemical Engineering" gives the state-of-the-art from the point of view of the numerical mathematicians as well as from the engineers. The application of modern methods in numerical mathematics on problems in chemical engineering, especially reactor modeling, process simulation, process optimization and the use of parallel computing is detailed. For scientists, practitioners and graduate students in chemical engineering, industrial engineering and numerical mathematics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Combustion of Coal in Pressurized Fluidized Bed Reactors....Pages 1-10
Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimizing the Unifac Matrix on Workstation Clusters....Pages 11-21
Euler/Euler Modelling of Fluidized Bed Fluiddynamics....Pages 22-28
Dynamic Dimension Reduction in ODE Models....Pages 29-43
Compact Finite Difference Methods for the Solution of Chemical Engineering Problems....Pages 44-50
Advantages of an Adaptive Method: The Simulation of a Fixed-Bed Reactor with Periodic Flow Reversal....Pages 51-59
A mathematical model of emulsion polymerization....Pages 60-67
Differential-algebraic systems in the chemical process simulation....Pages 68-74
Optimal Temperature Control of Semibatch Polymerization Reactors....Pages 75-83
Micro- and Macro-Scales in Porous Reactors and Their Modelling....Pages 84-91
Application of Numerical Methods in Chemical Process Engineering....Pages 92-110
Simulation of Reacting Particles Applying Orthogonal Collocation on Finite Elements....Pages 111-121
Partitioning in reaction kinetics....Pages 122-128
Qualitative Properties of a Model for Carrier Facilitated Groundwater Contaminant Transport....Pages 129-135
Numerical Solution of Reaction-Diffusion Equations....Pages 136-141
Parameter Estimation and Optimal Control for Dynamic Chemical Processes....Pages 142-148
Analysis of Unsteady State Chemical Reactors by Continuation Methods....Pages 149-155
On-Line Recognition of Critical States in Chemical Reaction Systems....Pages 156-162
PDEX1M — A Software Package for the Numerical Solution of Parabolic Systems in One Space Dimension....Pages 163-169
Modelling and simulation of complex biochemical processes, taking the Biogas Tower Reactor as an example....Pages 170-182
Subspace Search Methods for Large Scale Nonlinear Optimization....Pages 183-189
Computersimulation of the Self-Heating and Auto-Ignition of Activated Carbon Adsorbers....Pages 190-197
Optimization of Three-Dimensional Catalyst Pore Structures....Pages 198-204
Bacterial Growth and Bioremediation....Pages 205-211
Numerical Treatment of Diffusion-Reaction-Equations with the Method of Lines....Pages 212-218
An Adaptive Algorithm for Solving the Biharmonic Equation on Sparse Grids....Pages 219-225
Parameter Estimation in Chemical Engineering, a case study for resin production....Pages 226-238
Modelling of Chemical Reaction Systems — Parameter Redundancy and Effective Kinetics....Pages 239-245
A Wavelet-Galerkin Method applied to Separation Processes....Pages 246-252
Application of Automatically Reduced Reaction Mechanisms in the Calculation of Turbulent Reactive Flows....Pages 253-259

✦ Subjects

Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Physical Chemistry; Numerical Analysis; Math. Applications in Chemistry; Computational Intelligence; Computer Applications in Chemistry