Overview
Teaches even lower undergraduate students how to develop mathematical models by using an easy step-by-step approach
Uses the basic yet powerful tool Excel to simulate Chemical Engineering Processes
Shows how to model and simulate either simple or complex systems in a very straightforward way compared to what is available in competing literature
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book treats modeling and simulation in a simple way, that builds on the existing knowledge and intuition of students. They will learn how to build a model and solve it using Excel.
Most chemical engineering students feel a shiver down the spine when they see a set of complex mathematical equations generated from the modeling of a chemical engineering system. This is because they usually do not understand how to achieve this mathematical model, or they do not know how to solve the equations system without spending a lot of time and effort.
Trying to understand how to generate a set of mathematical equations to represent a physical system (to model) and solve these equations (to simulate) is not a simple task. A model, most of the time, takes into account all phenomena studied during a Chemical Engineering course. In the same way, there is a multitude of numerical methods that can be used to solve the same set of equations generated from the modeling, and many different computational languages can be adopted to implement the numerical methods. As a consequence of this comprehensiveness and combinatorial explosion of possibilities, most books that deal with this subject are very extensive and embracing, making need for a lot of time and effort to go through this subject.Â
It is expected that with this book the chemical engineering student and the future chemical engineer feel motivated to solve different practical problems involving chemical processes, knowing they can do that in an easy and fast way, with no need of expensive software.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Step by Step Approach to the Modeling of Chemical Engineering Processes
Book Subtitle: Using Excel for simulation
Authors: Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66047-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66046-2Published: 09 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88163-8Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66047-9Published: 15 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 173
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Simulation and Modeling, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics