Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, 9th Edition

CHAPTER 3Material Balances

3.1 The Connection between a Process and Its Schematic

3.2 Introduction to Material Balances

3.3 A General Strategy for Solving Material Balance Problems

3.4 Material Balances for Single Unit Systems

3.5 Vectors and Matrices

3.6 Solving Systems of Linear Equations with MATLAB

3.7 Solving Systems of Linear Equations with Python

Chapter Objectives

• Understand the connection between a schematic of a process and the actual process.

• Be able to apply the material balance equation to single-unit processes in which reactions do not occur using the recommended step-by-step procedure.

• Understand how to apply a degree-of-freedom analysis to a material balance problem.

• Be able to solve a set of linear material balance equations ...