How to Do a Mass and Energy Balance
Professional engineers usually produce their mass and energy balances in MS Excel. My approach, as described in this chapter, allows these spreadsheets to be easily checked and readily modified, to allow the engineer to carry out sensitivity analysis for different scenarios across the design envelope.
Keywords
Static; dynamic; mass; energy; balance
Introduction
Most universities teach students to carry out mass and energy balances in single steady state scenarios in order to simplify the process for beginners. In the real world there is, however, no such thing as steady state.
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