Adsorption Phenomena
What is adsorption? Most commonly used adsorbents, applications of adsorption and some references.
Celanese Clearlake Ethylene Oxide Reactor Revamp
A student project report from an equipment design course at Rice University, includes process description, market analysis, reactor design, safety and economics analysis.
Chemical Reaction Engineering Java Applets
Some applets for online simulation of reactor models, e.g. semi-batch reactor with jacketing, catalyst decay in a CSTR, adiabatic batch reactor. Developed at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Continuous Liquid-Liquid Extraction...
...via an improved centrifugal contactor. Paper presented at the AIChE Spring National Meeting 1998, Symposium on Extraction in Practice, by D. Meikrantz, S. B. Meikrantz, and M. St. George, CINC.
Distillation
From The Distillation Group, an overview of distillation processes.
Distillation: An Introdution
A set of notes by M.T. Tham covering the terminology, types of columns, equipment, column internals, reboilers, distillation principles, vapour liquid equilibria, and column design.
Dynamic Simulation for Process Design
Paper by C. A. Depew and R. B. Nielsen, Fluor Daniel, Inc. about dynamic simulation as a tool for process design. Includes several case studies.
Flowsheeting on the World Wide Web
Report about a system that provides "flowsheeting", i.e. mass and energy balance computation, across the WWW. A VRML viewer (e.g. Live3D integrated in Netscape Navigator) is required to see the generated flowsheet.
Heat Exchanger Network Design
Self-paced hypertext short course introducing process heat integration.
An Introduction to Pinch Technology
Introductory article written by employees of AspenTech about process heat integration and Linnhoff's pinch technology.
Lean Oil Absorption Processes
Description of an absorption process in which natural gas liquids (NGLs) are removed from natural gas by contacting with a liquid hydrocarbon solvent (oil).
Propylene Oxide
Design problem on manufacture of propylene oxide by non-catalytic oxidation in the gas phase. From the University of Pennsylvania's senior chemical plant design course.
Supercritical Fluids
Lecture slides by James K. Hardy, University of Akron, on supercritical fluids and their application in extraction and chromatography.