Pre class activity: Conversion and reactor sizing
Lecture notes for chemical reaction engineering
Read chapter 2 of Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (Fogler 2016).
In this lecture we will be using python/ jupyter to solve problems related to reactor sizing. It is therefore essential that you bring a laptop for the lectures/ workshops this week.
We will be working through online jupyter notebooks hosted on Google colab. You can possibly work with iPads or other tablets, but I haven’t tested it so you are on your own.
If you haven’t already,
Watch Get started with Google Colaboratory (Coding TensorFlow)
Visit Google colab. Go through the overview
Check out following examples:
Revisit the concept of interpolation and polynomial fitting
We will be using
CubicSplineinterpolation function from thescipy.interpolatelibrary. Go through documentation for 1-D interpolationFor curve fitting, we will use polynomial fitting function
polyfitfromnumpy. Go through the documentation fornumpy.polyfit
Refresh numerical integration concepts such as trapezoid, Simpson’s 1/3 or 5/8 rule etc.
- We will be using general purpose
quadfunction from thescipy.integratelibrary. Go through documentation for Integration (scipy.integrate)
- We will be using general purpose
References
Citation
@online{utikar2024,
author = {Utikar, Ranjeet},
title = {Pre Class Activity: {Conversion} and Reactor Sizing},
date = {2024-03-04},
url = {https://cre.smilelab.dev//content/notes/02-conversion-and-reactor-sizing/pre-class-activities.html},
langid = {en}
}