Said S.E.H. Elnashaie – författare

This interdisciplinary book presents numerical techniques needed for chemical and biological engineers using Matlab. Since most problems faced by chemical and biological engineers are nonlinear, the model equations generally require numerical techniques to solve them. The problem of validating a solution and comparing between different algorithms can be tackled by testing different numerical techniques on the same problem and verifying and comparing their output against known experimental and industrial data. The book begins by exploring general cases, and moves on to specific ones. The text includes a large number of detailed illustrations, exercises and industrial examples. The book provides detailed mathematics and engineering background in the appendixes, including an introduction to Matlab. Undergraduate students in chemical/biological engineering and undergraduate students in applied mathematics and numerical analysis will find this text useful.

Presenting strategies in control policies, this text uses a systems theory approach to predict, simulate and streamline plant operation, conserve fuel and resources, and increase workplace safety in the manufacturing, chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, biochemical and energy industries. Topics of discussion include system theory and chemical/biochemical engineering systems, steady state, unsteady state, and thermodynamic equilibrium, modeling of systems, fundamental laws governing the processes in terms of the state variables, different classifications of physical models, the story of chemical engineering in relation to system theory and mathematical modeling, overall heat balance with single and multiple chemical reactions and single and multiple reactions.