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Teaching chemical reaction engineering using EMSO simulator
Author(s) -
Rodrigues Rodolfo,
Soares Rafael P.,
Secchi Argimiro R.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.20255
Subject(s) - constructive , computer science , chemical reaction engineering , process (computing) , work (physics) , work in process , chemical equation , graph , simulation , industrial engineering , theoretical computer science , mechanical engineering , programming language , chemistry , engineering , biochemistry , operations management , catalysis
Nowadays, the use of computational tools in classroom is quite habitual and important by making the learning process more constructive and dynamic. The objective of this work is to introduce a support didactic material for use in computational classes of Chemical Reaction Engineering. The development of the work is based on a direct implementation of examples of the well‐known Fogler's textbook “Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering” in an equation‐based dynamic simulator: EMSO. The problems were implemented in a way to preserve the structure of the problem as described in the textbook. The results are illustrated by graph plots generated in the simulator, allowing comparisons with the results presented in the textbook and detailed analyses for effects of variables in the problem. The problems are easily modified, allowing the student to analyze several possibilities, changing equations and values of variables, for example, and observing the results. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 18: 607–618, 2010; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com ; DOI 10.1002/cae.20255