COURSE NAME/ECTS Credits
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
FACULTY / DEPARTMENT
ENGINEERING/CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
SEMESTER
FALL / 5
CONTENT
NAME AND CONTACT
INFORMATION OF PROFESSOR
(EMAIL/PHONE)
Definition of chemical engineering problems and examples from
industry, steps of the mathematical analysis process, fundamental
dependent variables, characterizing dependent variables, derive
equation, constitutive equations and their descriptions,
importance of constitutive equations in terms of mathematical
model, control volumes, selection of volumes for the systems in
which conservation principles are applied and selection criterias,
all the steps for developing a complete mathematical model,
dimensional analysis in the presence and absence of a
mathematical model, developing of model equations by applying
the conservation principles, application of the model equations to
process examples, appreciations on the level control problems as
an example of steady and unsteady-state solution, mass
conservation for multi-component systems, application of the
derived equations to steady and unsteady state problems, mass
conservation equations in reacting liquid systems and derivation
of model equations using the kinetic models, application of models
in different reaction systems, types of energy, general energy
equation, dependent variables used in the conservation of energy
and the difficulties in writing the energy conservation, application
of different heat transfer systems, discussing of steady and
unsteady state solutions and practical examples, overall energy
conservation for chemical reactors, solutions of the mathematical
models involving mass and energy conservation equations for the
steady and unsteady states according to reactor types.
SELVA ÇAVUŞ
selva@istanbul.edu.tr
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