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Where Do Chemical and Bioengineers Work?
which lists the percentages of all chemical engineers by employment sector between 1996 and 2007,…
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The Chemical Reaction Equation and Stoichiometry
Stoichiometry: When chemical reactions occur, in contrast with physical changes of material such as evaporation…
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Material Balances for a System
with More than One Component Almost all real systems involve multicomponent mixtures that require a…
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Characteristics of Systems
By system we mean any arbitrary portion of or a whole process you want to…
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Material Balances for a Single Component
To begin our discussion of the material balance equation, let’s consider a system composed of…
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Concept of a Material Balance
You can get a good idea of what is involved in making a material balance…
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Pressure and Hydrostatic Head
In Florentine Italy in the seventeenth century, well diggers observed that when they used suction…
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Temperature
You can hardly go through a single day without noticing or hearing what the temperature…
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Density and Specific Gravity
In ancient times, counterfeit gold objects were identified by comparing the ratio of the weight…
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The Mole and Molecular Weight
What is a mole? For our purposes we will say that a mole is a…