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Chemical Engineering

Mass Transfer and Separations

Chemical Reaction Engineering

CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING COURSES, TEXTBOOKS, LECTURES, VIDEOS, ETC.

CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING CALCULATORS, APPLETS, ANIMATIONS & SIMULATIONS


CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING – CHE 344 – H.S. Fogler & M. Nihat Gürmen,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
College of Engineering,
University of Michigan
Multimedia Chemical Reaction Engineering Course (Text, Images & Audio/Sound).
VERY VERY VERY…EXTENSIVE.

Chemical Reaction Engineering

“…covers the fundamentals of chemical reaction engineering
including: rate laws, kinetics, mechanisms of homogeneous and
heterogeneous reactions, analysis of rate data, multiple reactions…”

Examples of “Chemical Reaction Engineering” Course Chapters & Subchapters include

Mole Balances
“…Chemical Identity; Reaction Rate; General Mole Balance Equation;

Mole Balance on Different Reactor Types…”

Conversion and Reactor Sizing

“…Conversion; Design Equations; Reactor Sizing;

Numerical Evaluation of Integrals; Reactors in Series;


Space Time; etc…”

Rate Laws and Stoichiometry

“…Relative Rates of Reaction; Power Law Model; Non-Elementary Rate Laws;


Batch System Stoichiometric; Flow System Stoichiometric Table; etc…”

Algorithm for Isothermal Reactor Design

“…Isothermal Reactor Design; Reversible Reactions;

Engineering Analysis; Membrane Reactors; Semibatch Reactors; etc…”

Multiple Reactions

“…Selectivity and Yield; Reactions in Series;

Algorithm for Multiple Reactions; etc…”

Steady-State Non-Isothermal Reactor Design

“…Manipulating the Energy Balance, DHRx; Adiabatic Reactions;

Interstage Cooling/Heating; Multiple Steady States; etc…”

Catalysis and Catalytic Reactions

“…Octane Rating; Steps in Catalytical Reaction;

Regulation for Automotive Exhaust Emissions;


Types of Catalyst Deactivation; Temperature-Time Trajectories; etc…”

For more information see the

Chemical Reaction Engineering Course Home Page;

Chemical Reaction Engineering Home Page;

Department of Chemical Engineering or the

College of Engineering

Biofuel Engineering

BIOFUEL TECHNICAL REPORTS, LECTURES, PUBLICATIONS, ETC.


BIOFUELS – RENEWABLE FUELS – UOP, a Division of Honeywell International Inc.
Multimedia BioFuels (Text, Images & Animations).
For more information see

UOP – Processing Solutions or

UOP

Biofuels Technology – Renewable Fuels include

Honeywell Green Diesel


Honeywell Green Jet Fuel


UTILIZATION OF ALGAE IN HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS FOR BIO-OIL PRODUCTION – Lasse Rosendahl & Saqub Sohail Toor,
Biomass Research Center,
Fluidmekanik og forbrændingsteknik (Fluid Mechanics and Combustion),
Department of Energy Technology,
The Faculty of Engineering and Science
Aalborg University,
Denmark;
Presented at the 3rd Danish Algae Conference,
09-10th October 2013,
Grenaa, Denmark
Multimedia Utilization of Algae in Hydrothermal Systems for Bio-Oil Production (Text & Images)
For more information see

Lasse Rosendahl’s Home Page;

Biomass or the

Department of Energy Technology


HYDROTHERMAL LIQUEFACTION (HTL) – Science Daily,
provided by Aarhus University, Denmark
Multimedia Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL): The most promising path to sustainable bio-oil production Report – 2/6/2013 (Text & Images).

Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL)


“…A new generation of the HTL process can convert all kinds of biomasses to crude bio-oil,
which is sufficiently similar to fossil crude oil that a simple thermal upgrade and existing refinery
technology can be employed to subsequently obtain all the liquid fuels we know today.
What is more, the HTL process only consumes approximately 10-15 percent of the energy in the
feedstock biomass, yielding an energy efficiency of 85-90 percent…”

For more information see

Science Daily

BIOMASS CALCULATORS


BIOMASS ENERGY COST CALCULATORS (SPREADSHEETS OPEN ONLINE WITH
EXCEL, iWORK-NUMBERS, IBM LOTUS SYMPHONY, NEOOFFICE, OPENOFFICE CALC, ETC.) – Author: B. Jenkins,
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering,
College of Engineering,
University of California, Davis;
Hosted by the California Biomass Collaborative
VERY VERY VERY…EXTENSIVE.

Biomass Energy Cost Calculators

“…allow you to determine the cost of energy based on your own
technical, financial, and economic assumptions…computes the level annual
cost of energy in both current and constant dollars for a
generic biomass power plant using a revenue requirements methodology…”

Examples of Biomass Energy Cost Calculators include

“…Generic biomass power plant model calculator;

Combined heat and power model calculator;

Biomass gasification/power generation model calculator;

Biogas model calculator;

Landfill gas-to-energy model; etc…”

For more information see

California Biomass Collaborative Tools;

California Biomass Collaborative or

Jenkins’ Biomass Laboratory


STANDARD BIOMASS ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES (SPREADSHEETS OPEN ONLINE WITH
EXCEL, iWORK-NUMBERS, IBM LOTUS SYMPHONY, NEOOFFICE, OPENOFFICE CALC, ETC.) – National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Multimedia Standard Biomass Analytical Procedures (Text & Images).
VERY VERY VERY…EXTENSIVE.

Examples of “Standard Biomass Analytical Procedures” Technical Reports include

“…Ash in Biomass;

Extractives in Biomass;

Structural Carbohydrates and Lignin in Biomass;

Sugars, Byproducts, and Degradation Products in Liquid Fraction Process Samples;

Insoluble Solids in Pretreated Biomass Material;

Enzymatic Saccharification of Lignocellulosic Biomass; etc…”

Examples of “Biomass” Spreadsheets include

“…Wood (hardwood or softwood);

Corn stover (corn stover feedstock);

Biomass hydrolyzate (liquid fraction produced from dilute-acid pretreatment);

Nitrogen-to-protein factor calculator; etc…”

For more information see

Data and Tools;

Bioenergy or the

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Desalination Engineering

RELATED CENTERS

FOR DESALINATION RELATED COURSES, TEXTBOOKS, CALCULATORS, ETC. SEE

OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE GEOCHEMISTRY

FOR WATER PURIFICATION RELATED COURSES, TEXTBOOKS, CALCULATORS, ETC. SEE

WATER, WASTEWATER TREATMENT ENGINEERING

DESALINATION & WATER PURIFICATION STUDIES, TECHNICAL REPORTS, ETC.


WORLD’S LARGEST DESALINATION PLANT – RAS AL-KHAIR – Saline Water Conversion Corporation,
Saudia Arabia
For more information see the

Saline Water Conversion Corporation

Also see


Innovations and Training in Desalination – Filitration + Separation – 3/17/2015

“…The Ras Al-Khair plant produces 1,036,000 m3/d, sufficient to meet the daily water requirements
of around 3.5 million people…”

“…As the world’s largest hybrid plant, the project uses both membrane technology
(reverse osmosis, RO at 309,360 m3/d) and thermal technology (multi-stage flash evaporation,
MSF with a capacity of 727,130 m3/d). This plant also features the largest single MSF trains
composed of 8 units with capacity of over 91,000 m3/d each. The RO plant has 17 trains…”

“…The Ras Al-Khair plant is dual purpose with an export production capacity of 1.025 million
m3/d desalinated water and an electricity production capacity of 2,400 MW, providing 1350 MW
for the Maaden Aluminum Complex, 1050 MW to the Saudi Electricity Company, and about 200MW for
internal consumption on site…”

“…The combined cycle power plant is one of the more efficient power plants in the world.
The total length of the double transmission lines from Ras Al-Khair plant to Riyadh and Hafr Al-Batin region
will be 1,290 km…”


Largest desalination plant produces its first water – 4/23/2014 – Desalination & Water Reuse,
published with the cooperation of The International Desalination Association

“…will supply water from the Gulf to 3.5 million people in the Riyadh area…”

“…Ras al-Khair (Ras Azzour) seawater plant northwest of Jubail in Saudi Arabia…”

“…Built by Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries, the hybrid desalination facility has
a capacity of 160 MIGD 727,000 m³/d) multi-stage flash (MSF) evaporation and 67.5 MIGD (307,000 m³/d)
reverse-osmosis membrane filtration…”


SOREK PROJECT: THE WORLD’S LARGEST AND MOST ADVANCED SWRO DESALINATION PLANT – SOREK, ISRAEL – IDE Technologies
Multimedia Sorek Project: The World’s Largest and Most Advanced SWRO Desalination Plant Technical Report (Text & Images).

Sorek Project: The World’s Largest and Most Advanced SWRO Desalination Plant

“…a total capacity of 624,000 m³/day;

providing clean potable water for over 1.5 million people…”

For more information see

IDE Technologies


MARAFIQ IWPP – SAUDI ARABIA – Sidem,
A company of Veolia Environnement
Multimedia Marafiq IWPP – Saudi Arabia – Desalination Plant (Text & Images).

Marafiq IWPP – Saudi Arabia – Desalination Plant

With more than 800,000 m3/day (178 MIGD) desalination capacity,
a major landmark for Sidem

For more information see

Sidem

Shock Electrodialysis for the Desalination of Water


SHOCKING NEW WAY TO GET THE SALT OUT – MIT News Office, MIT;
Published 11/12/2015
Multimedia Shocking new way to get the salt out (Text & Images)

“…MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water…”

“…MIT team: Martin Bazant, S. Schlumpberger, N. Lu & M. Suss…”

“…the system uses an electrically driven shockwave within a stream of flowing water,
which pushes salty water to one side of the flow and fresh water to the other, allowing easy
separation of the two streams…”

“…In the new process, called shock electrodialysis, water flows through a porous material —in
this case, made of tiny glass particles, called a frit — with membranes or electrodes sandwiching
the porous material on each side…”

“…When an electric current flows through the system, the salty water divides into regions
where the salt concentration is either depleted or enriched…”

“…When that current is increased to a certain point, it generates a shockwave between these
two zones, sharply dividing the streams and allowing the fresh and salty regions to be separated
by a simple physical barrier at the center of the flow…”

For more information see

Scalable and Continuous Water Deionization by Shock Electrodialysis – Environmental Science & Technology Letters, American Chemical Society;

Martin Bazant’s Home Page or the

Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT

Concentrating Solar Power for Seawater Desalination


CONCENTRATION SOLAR POWER FOR SEAWATER DESALINATION – Systemanalyse und Technikbewertung (Section Systems Analysis and Technology Assessment),
Institut für Technische Thermodynamik
(Institute of Technical Thermodynamics),
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) (German Aerospace Center (DLR)),
Stuttgart, Germany
Multimedia Concentrating Solar Power for Seawater Desalination – PDF, 279 Pages (Text & Images).

Concentrating Solar Power for Seawater Desalination

“…The AQUA-CSP study analyses the potential of concentrating solar thermal power technology
for large scale seawater desalination for the urban centres in the
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)…”

Examples of “Concentrating Solar Power for Seawater Desalination” Chapters & Subchapters include

Review of CSP and Desalination Technology
“…Seawater Desalination Technologies;
Multi-Stage-Flash Desalination (MSF);

Multi-Effect Desalination (MED);

Reverse Osmosis (RO);

Thermal Vapour Compression (TVC);

Mechanical Vapour Compression (MVC); etc.

Concentrating Solar Power Technologies;

Concentrating Solar Power for Large Scale Seawater Desalination; etc…”

Environmental Impacts

“…Multi-Stage Flash Desalination (MSF);

Multi-Effect Desalination (MED);

Reverse Osmosis (RO);

Life-Cycle Assessment of Materials and Emissions; etc…”

Seawater Desalination Markets in MENA; etc.

For more information see

Concentrating Solar Power for Seawater Desalination Home Page;

Systemanalyse und Technikbewertung;

Abteilungen des Instituts or the

Institut für Technische Thermodynamik (Institute of Technical Thermodynamics)

Desalination News, Article, Features, Technical Reports, etc.


DESALINATION – Filtration+Separation,
Elsevier Ltd.
Multimedia Desalination News, Article, Features, Technical Reports, etc. (Text & Images).
For more information see the

Filtration+Separation


DESALINATION – The International Desalination & Water Reuse Quarterly Industry Website,
International Desalination Association
Multimedia Desalination News, Article, Features, Technical Reports, etc. (Text & Images).
For more information see the

International Desalination Association

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

HYDROGEN FUEL CELL COURSES, LECTURES, TEXTBOOKS, ETC.


FUEL CELL COURSES – Jason M. Keith,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Michigan Technological University
Multimedia Fuel Cell CourseS (Text & Images).
VERY VERY VERY…EXTENSIVE.

Examples from over “50” “Fuel Cell” Lectures include

“…Heat of Formation for Fuel Cell Applications;

Energy Balance in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell;

Generation of Electricity Using Recovered Hydrogen;

Equilibrium Coefficient and Van’t Hoff Equation for Fuel Cell Efficiency;

Fuel Cell Efficiency;

Compressor Sizing and Fuel Cell Parasitic Losses;

Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer in Fuel Cells;

Microscopic Balances Applied to Fuel Cells;

Reaction Kinetics in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell;

Hydrogen Purification;

Hydrogen Production by Electrolysis with a Fuel Cell;

Hydrogen Production Cost;

Energy Consumpion Analysis;

Energy Emissions Analysis;

Battery Energy Analysis;

Fuel Cell Series Load Analysis;

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stack Performance: Single Load; etc…”

For more information see

Hydrogen Education at Michigan Technological University;

Jason M. Keith’s Home Page or the

Department of Chemical Engineering

HYDROGEN FUEL CELL CALCULATORS, APPLETS, SIMULATIONS, ETC.


HYDROGEN FUEL CELL POWER AND VOLTAGE CALCULATOR – Jason M. Keith & Susan E. Hill,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Michigan Technological University
VERY EXTENSIVE.

Click on “Fuel Cell Power and Voltage Calculator”.

For more information see

Jason M. Keith’s Home Page or the

Department of Chemical Engineering


HYDROGEN CALCULATORS – Hydrogen Analysis Resource Center,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL)
VERY VERY EXTENSIVE.

Examples of Hydrogen Calculators include

“…Hydrogen Conversions Calculator;

Hydrogen Heating Values on Mass Basis Calculator;

Hydrogen Threshold Cost Calculator;

Lower and Higher Heating Values of Fuels; etc…”

For more information see

Hydrogen Analysis Resource Center or the

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL)

Petrochemical Engineering