ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Summer School 2007

ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Summer School 2007

Recent Advances in Chemical Engineering Problem Solving

Mordechai Shacham, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel

Michael B. Cutlip, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, U-3222, Storrs, CT 06269-3222

Workshop Instructions: Please click on the PDF document link to view the PowerPoint presentation for the Introduction and for each particular Example Problem. The files can be downloaded and saved with a right mouse click from the links given in each problem. A left mouse click should open the problem in both Polymath (.pol files) and EXCEL (.XLS files) if these software packages are available on your computer.

	Subject	Duration	Presenter
Introduction PDFH	Historical Perspective on Numerical Problem Solving	20 min	Shacham
Introduction	POLYMATH	10 min	Cutlip
Example 1 PDF1	Molar Volume and Compressibility Factor from Redlich-Kwong Equation (Prob 4.1)* Sequential Calculations with POLYMATH and Excel, Parametric Studies with Excel Files: Example1_A.POL Example1_B1.XLS Example1_B2.XLS	20 min	Cutlip
Example 2 PDF2	Calculation of the Flow Rate in A Pipeline (Prob. 5.2)^* Solution of a Single Nonlinear (Implicit) Algebraic Equation with POLYMATH and MATLAB, Parametric Studies with MATLAB Files: Example2_A.POL Example2_B1.mª Example2_B2.mª ª - Use right mouse click to save MATLAB file.	20 min	Shacham
Example 3 PDF3	Regression of Data ("Heat of Hardening" - Polymath Regression Example 4) Correlation of the Physical Properties of Ethane (Prob. 4.4)^* Multiple Linear, Polynomial and Nonlinear Regression with Statistical Analysis Files: PolymathRegressionExample4.pol CpEthane.pol VPEthane.pol WagnerEq.pol	25 min	Shacham
Example 4 PDF4	Adiabatic Operation of a Tubular Reactor for Cracking of Acetone (Prob. 4.3)^* Solution of a System of ODEs with POLYMATH and Excel, Parametric Studies with Excel Files: Example-4.POL Example-4.xls	15 min	Cutlip
Example 5 PDF5	Complex Chemical Equilibrium (Probs. 6.6 and 7.13)^* Solution of a System of Nonlinear Algebraic Equations (NLE) with POLYMATH and MATLAB, Parametric Studies with MATLAB Files: Example5A.pol Example5B.pol Example5B.mª Example5C.pol ª - Use right mouse click to save MATLAB file	? min	Shacham
Example 6 PDF6	Simultaneous Multicomponent Diffusion of Gases (Prob. 10.8) Solution of a System of ODEs with POLYMATH and MATLAB, Boundary Value Iterations with MATLAB Files: Example6.pol MultDiffusA.mª MultDiffusB.mª ª - Use right mouse click to save MATLAB file.	? min	Shacham
Misc. Problems PDFmisc	Brief Review of Problem Types not Discussed in Detail: Stiff ODEs, DAEs, PDEs, Parameter Estimation, Nonlinear Programming, Multiple Model – Multiple Algorithm Problems	? min	Shacham
Summary	Conclusions and Discussion	5 min

*Cutlip, M. B. and Shacham, M., Problem Solving in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering with Polymath, Excel, and MATLAB, 2^nd ed., Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007.