About the Material and Energy Balance Spreadsheets
Brice Carnahan – University of Michigan
Prof. Brice Carnahan at the University of Michigan has assigned a variety of spreadsheeting problems to
his students in the first chemical engineering course, Material and Energy Balances. The problems
typically involve solution of a class of problems (suitable for solving many related class home problems),
although some are more specifically related to a particular situation (e.g., specification of a force-air homeheating furnace and steady-state simulation of a particular methanol-production process).
The student problem assignments (in Word .doc files) and Prof. Carnahan’s (in one case student) solutions
(in EXCEL .xls files) are included in the folder Carnahan_Mat_Eng_Bal_Sheets as follows:
Assignment/Sheet Name
Problem Class
CoalOilCombustion.doc
Assignment:
Coal and Liquid Fuel Oil Combustion Stack-Gas
Analysis
CoalOilCombustion.xls
Solution Sheet:
Coal and Liquid Fuel Oil Combustion Stack-Gas
Analysis
FuelCombustion.doc
Assignment:
Combustion Analyzer for Fuel Mixtures Containing
Compounds of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
FuelCombustion.xls
Solution Sheet:
Combustion Analyzer for Fuel Mixtures Containing
Compounds of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
GasEnthalpyCp.doc
Assignment:
Computing Enthalpy Changes and Mean Heat
Capacities for Ideal (low pressure) Gas Mixtures
GasEnthalpyCp.xls
Solution Sheet:
Computing Enthalpy Changes and Mean Heat
Capacities for Ideal (low pressure) Gas Mixtures
MethanolProcessSimulation.doc
Assignment:
Steady-State Simulation of a Methanol Production
Process
MethanolBaseCase.xls
Solution Sheet:
Steady-State Simulation of a Methanol Production
Process – Base Case
MethanolTestCase.xls
Solution Sheet:
Steady-State Simulation of a Methanol Production
Process – a Test Case
OpenSysReactors.doc
Assignment:
Open-System Chemical Reaction Mass and Energy
Balances Involving Compounds of Carbon, Hydrogen,
Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur
OpenSysReactors.xls
Solution Sheet:
Open-System Chemical Reaction Mass and Energy
Balances Involving Compounds of Carbon, Hydrogen,
Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur
PengRobinson.doc
Assignment:
Solving the Peng-Robinson Equation of State for
Real Gas Mixtures
PengRobinson.xls
Solution Sheet:
Solving the Peng-Robinson Equation of State for
Real Gas Mixtures
ReactionAnalysis.doc
Assignment:
Mass Balance for Chemical Reaction Involving
Compounds of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen,
and Sulfur
ReactionAnalysis.xls
Solution Sheet:
Mass Balance for Chemical Reaction Involving
Compounds of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen,
and Sulfur
ResidentialFurnace.doc
Assignment:
Choosing a High Efficiency Forced Air Furnace
for Residential Heating Service
StudentFurnace1.doc
Solution Sheet:
Sample 1 of Student Solution for Choosing a High
Efficiency Forced Air Furnace for Residential
Heating Service
StudentFurnace2.doc
Solution Sheet:
Sample 2 of Student Solution for Choosing a High
Efficiency Forced Air Furnace for Residential
Heating Service