8.17 chemical engineering packages (21.9.97)

8.17.1 Fernando Fernandes Vieira

I’m looking for any information about packages for chemical engineering

8.17.2 Sam H. Davis (25.9.97)

We have a package of programs used for mass and energy balances and for transport phenomena. They are described in:

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ceng303/Maple/maplemanual_ch5.html

and

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu:80/~ceng402/

8.17.3 David Holmgren (25.9.97)

Check out the Maple share library for a program called "kinetics".

Given a reaction scheme, it will generate the appropriate system of differential equations, conservation laws, etc.. If you don’t have this library, it can be accessed via ftp (ftp.inf.ethz.ch, and go to pub/maple/5.3/share - I hope that this is still correct).

8.17.4 William R. Wilcox (25.9.97)

There are several problem solutions in the MapleVr4 package under share, engineer, chemeng.

These were prepared by Professor Taylor here at Clarkson University. He is probably the world’s foremost expert in the application of Maple to chemical engineering, and particularly thermodynamics.

I am using Maple now in my sophomore chemical engineering course on chemical process calculations. Information and Maple worksheets can be downloaded via http://people.clarkson.edu/~wilcox/cpc-indx.htm.

I’m finding that the use of Maple changes the way you think about a problem and solve it. Maple certainly makes the traditional computation methods obsolete, as well as opening the door to more realistic problems for undergraduates.

I would also be interested in hearing what others are doing in application of Maple to chemical engineering.