
This is the book, I used in this course.
Elementary Principle of Chemical Process 4th Edition.
ISBN-13: 978-1118431221
ISBN-10: 1118431227
You can use the 3rd Edition as well. If you dont have the textbook, send me PM on my FaceBook Page:https://www.facebook.com/pg/MadameEngineer/
In this chapter, it's a quick review of unit conversion. You can find all the conversion factors from https://www.dennisusa.com/principle-of-chemical-process
Calculate the mass flow rate and express it in kilograms per hour. Practice converting grams per minute to kilograms per hour and verify unit consistency.
Explore chemical composition using molecular weight, mass and mole fractions, and concentration measures. Learn to calculate mass fraction, mole fraction, average molecular weight of mixtures, plus ppm and molar concentrations.
Learn how to determine the concentration and average molecular weight of a benzene–xylene liquid mixture using mass fraction calculations, showing two methods yield identical results.
This video shows how to calculate pressure in a manometer using manometer rule.
Explore recycling, bypassing, and purging to boost productivity and reduce waste, while mastering fractional and overall conversion, extent of reaction, and selectivity in process design.
Apply conservation of mass to a reactive reactor with a 100 mole fresh feed basis, balancing inputs, outputs, and consumption for ammonia, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.
The pdf is the problem statement of the example 7.
Explore single-phase systems with phase diagrams and the ideal gas law, including critical points, phase coexistence, and mixture density calculations.
Explore standard temperature and pressure for ideal gas behavior, and use virial and srk equations to analyze non-ideal, critical gas states and mixtures with partial pressures.
Calculate a variable at stp for carbon dioxide by applying ideal gas assumptions at given temperature and pressure, then determine the gas volume from its mass.
Explore non-ideal gas behavior with the compressibility factor Z and the PV relation. Compute reduced temperature and pressure, apply pseudo critical properties, and read Z curves for hydrogen and mixtures.
I made the video for part a and part b of problem no. 9 of section 5.4. For part c, my professor/advisor has different solution than mine, and we are still negotiating. He is using the conversion of benzene because benzene is the limiting reactant, and he has 591.8 mol/min as the recycle stream molar flow rate, 18830 L/min as the volume flow rate. I think those number are not practical compared to the flow rate calculated in the fresh feed and exit stream, so you can have my solution for now, which is practical and same with 100% of the students in my class.
Calculate the vapor pressure of water by applying the Antoine equation with constants for 0–60 and 60–150 °C, then substitute 87 °C.
Compute partial pressure and mole fraction using vapor pressure, system pressure, and gas-phase pressure, applying Raoult's law and Antoine equation with unit conversions.
Explore how to use Txy and Pxy diagrams to determine dew point and bubble point, read vapor and liquid compositions at constant pressure or temperature.
Explore energy balances in chemical processes, distinguishing closed and open systems, and applying the first law to total energy, kinetic, and potential energy, with heat and work transfers.
Calculate the heater’s required heat using an open-system energy balance, with a mass flow rate of 1.7 kg/s and enthalpy data from table 7.
Calculate enthalpy change at constant pressure by integrating Cp(T) from start to end temperatures for hexane in gas and liquid phases, using table E-2 data.
Learn to read the psychrometric chart to determine dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures, relative humidity, dew point, and saturation lines for gas-vapor mixtures.
Use an open-system steady-state energy balance to determine heat for a reactive absorption, assuming 100% conversion and negligible work, via heats of formation and entropy change.
Principle of Chemical Processes (PCP) is the fundamental course for Chemical Engineering students for other subjects such as Thermodynamics, Separation Processes, Heat Transfer and Fluid Transport. Basically, the whole Chemical engineer career is based on Principle of Chemical Processes. This course integrates chemistry(general chemistry, some organic chemistry, and physical chemistry), physics, maths (mostly simple algebra, some calculus).
This course is highly cumulative. The best way to do well in this course is (1) read the textbook carefully, and understand the definitions for the terms, then try explain in your own words. The book is edited in formally written languages which make it hard for students to understand. So it's important to explain in our own words so that we can understand better. (2) Read each examples carefully and ask questions. The textbook sometimes used different methods than the methods taught in the class, as each professor has different way of teaching. (3)practice, practice and practice! This course is highly cumulative. It's important to do many practice problems, and make sure to follow procedure when solving problems, especially process problems.
Free preview on chapter 1 and chapter 7 are available for you to watch.