Chapter 8. Material Balances

8.1 Methodology

8.2 The Assumption of Steady-State

8.3 Single-Phase Material Balances for Separation Processes

8.4 Single-Phase Material Balances for Blending Processes

8.5 Multiple-Phase Material Balances

8.6 Material Balances with Chemical Reactions

8.7 Material Balances in the Real World

8.8 Concluding Comments

Appendix 8A: Business Economics

Problems

Chapter 5, “Thermodynamics: Energy, Heat, and Work,” laid out the principles of the science that governs process operations. This chapter addresses the calculations that a process operator might encounter. This book is analogous to Dr. David M. Himmelblau’s book, Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering (Prentice Hall, 2012). That book is used in ...

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