Numerical Techniques for Chemical and Biological Engineers Using MATLAB®: A Simple Bifurcation Approach [Hardcover]

Said S.E.H. Elnashaie (Author), Frank Uhlig (Author), Chadia Affane (Assistant)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0387344330 | ISBN-13: 978-0387344331 | Publication Date: December 18, 2006 | Edition: 2007

This interdisciplinary book presents numerical techniques needed for chemical and biological engineers using Matlab. The book begins by exploring general cases, and moves on to specific ones. The text includes a large number of detailed illustrations, exercises and industrial examples. The book provides detailed mathematics and engineering background in the appendixes, including an introduction to Matlab. The text will be useful to undergraduate students in chemical/biological engineering, and in applied mathematics and numerical analysis.

Editorial Reviews

Review

From the reviews: "The monograph is devoted to numerical methods in chemical and biological engineering using the numerical software package MATLAB. … Every chapter of the monograph is equipped with computer programs, list of exercises and open problems. The monograph is useful for graduate students, professional engineers and numerical analysts." (Boris V. Loginov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1121 (23), 2007)

From the Back Cover

This is a textbook for undergraduate students of chemical and biological engineering. It is also useful for graduate students, professional engineers and numerical analysts. All reactive chemical and biological processes are highly nonlinear allowing for multiple steady states. This book addresses the bifurcation characteristics of chemical and biological processes as the general case and treats systems with a unique steady state as special cases. It uses a system approach which is the most efficient for knowledge organization and transfer. The book develops mathematical models for many commercial processes utilizing the mass-, momentum-, and heat-balance equations coupled to the rates of the processes that take place within the boundaries of the system. The models are solved numerically through MATLAB codes with emphasis on the design and optimization of the chemical and biological industrial equipment and plants, such as single and batteries of CSTRs, porous and nonporous catalyst pellets and their effectiveness factors, tubular catalytic and noncatalytic reactors, fluidized bed catalytic reactors, coupled fluidized beds such as reactor-regenerator systems (industrial fluid catalytic cracking units), fluidized bed reformers for producing hydrogen or syngas, fermenters for fuel ethanol, simulation of the brain acetylcholine neurocycle, anaerobic digesters, co- and countercurrent absorption columns, and many more. The book also includes verification against industrial data. The book's CD contains nearly 100 MATLAB programs which are meant to teach the readers how to solve a variety of important chemical and biological engineering problems. The algorithms include solving transcendental and algebraic equations, with and without bifurcation; as well as initial and boundary value ordinary differential equations. Said Elnashaie is Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Frank Uhlig is Professor of Mathematics at Auburn University. Chadia Affane is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Mathematics at Auburn with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 606 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2007 edition (December 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387344330
• ISBN-13: 978-0387344331
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #703,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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