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Material & Energy Balances
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Material & Energy Balances
College · Engineering

Material & Energy Balances

4 topics
Chemical

Before this course

General Chemistry II
Calculus II

Topics

Process flow diagrams

Main lesson
Degrees of freedom of a unit
Use this for “A splitter has 5 unknowns, 2 balances, 2 specified values and 1 split relation. Can it be solved?”
What each PFD symbol does
Use this for “Which units on this flow diagram separate the streams, and which react?”

Material balances

Main lesson
Column split: distillate, bottoms and recovery
Use this for “100 kmol/h at 40% light key splits to 95% and 5%. What are D, B and the recovery?”
An evaporator with a bypass
Use this for “Juice at 12% solids is concentrated to 58%, then blended back with bypassed juice to 42%. How much bypasses?”

Reactive systems

Main lesson
A burner: methane with excess air
Use this for “100 mol/h of methane burns in 20% excess air. What is the CO₂ % on a dry basis?”

Energy balances

Main lesson
Heat of reaction: Q̇ = ξ̇ΔH°ᵣ
Use this for “10 mol/s of CH₄ burns at 25 °C, ΔH°ᵣ = −802.3 kJ/mol. How much heat leaves?”
Course test
See what you know: 10 questions on this course
New questions each time. Pass to mark it complete.
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