Graphical Chemical Engineering Design

When applying chemical engineering principles to the design of chemical processes and equipment one of the key techniques that can be used is analysis via graphic method. This allows both understanding of the fundamental principles and in many cases calculation of equipment size. When learning, visualisation and the ability to change variables allows investigation of how these affect the results.

This website focuses on fundamental Chemical Engineering areas, chemical reactions and reactors, separations, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. The sections for these can be accessed via the menu bar at the top of this page, but some of the most commonly used graphic systems can be seen below:

Reversible Chemical Reaction

Examine how the concentration of components varies with time for a single reversible reaction.

Series Reactions

Examine how the concentration of components varies with time for a pair of series reactions.

Parallel Reactions

Examine how the concentration of components varies with time for a pair of parallel reactions.

Vapour-Liquid-Liquid Equlibrium Regular Solution Theory

Examine how the solubility of the components affects the vapour-liquid-liquid equlibrium as predicted by regular solution theory.

McCabe-Thiele Method

Examine how the McCabe-Thiele method can be used to calculate the number of ideal equlibrium stages for a distillation column.

Stripping

Examine how the McCabe-Thiele method can be modifed for a stripping column to predict the ideal number of equlibrium stages.

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