Chemical Engineering Analysis - CHE 411

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ANALYSIS –
CHE 411

Ajiboye Saheeb OSUNLEKE
(PhD., MNSChE, MNSE, R. Eng.)

Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Technology
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
E-mail: aosunlek@oauife.edu.ng
Phone: 08056803838
INTRODUCTION-1
• What’s Engineering Analysis in
General?
It involves the application of scientific

analytic principles and processes to
describe the properties and state of a
system, device or mechanism under study.
INTRODUCTION-2
• What’s Chemical Engineering Analysis
in Specific?
✔ Of course it is the same but …
✔It involves the application of scientific

analytic principles and processes to
describe the properties and state of a
system, device or mechanism under study
as applied to chemical engineering
systems and processes
INTRODUCTION-3
General background
•The course is aimed at preparing Chemical

Engineering students in their third or fourth year in
their undergraduate programme, on the methods of
Chemical Engineering problems, their formulations,
solutions and analysis.
•The subject at hand involves the application of

scientific analytic principles and processes to reveal
the properties and state of the Chemical Engineering
systems, devices or mechanisms under study.
INTRODUCTION-4
• The main aim of this note is to provide the
material for the course under study in a
comprehensible and lucid manner.
• The goal, rather ambitiously, has been to

present what the course tutor feels every
Chemical Engineering student should know
about chemical engineering systems, their
mathematical descriptions, solutions and
analysis.
INTRODUCTION-5
• This material is meant to providing the
students with a good understanding of
mathematical modeling in general and
unveiling the “tricks” involve in mathematical
representation of real-life processes in a
way that stimulates students’ interest in the
course and change their hitherto “made-to-
believe” syndrome that the course is a hard
nut to crack.
• So, in preparing the material, the following
considerations have been made:
INTRODUCTION-6
1. That the students had already undertaken
basic courses in mathematics, especially
algebra.
2. That a successful model results from a

well-balanced and subtle interplay between
understanding the underlining principles or
physical/chemical laws governing the
processes or systems under consideration
and ability to exercise valid engineering
judgments.
INTRODUCTION-7
✔ Thus a good model also requires a balanced mix of
attitudes on the part of the modeler creative thinking,
mathematical rigor and discipline, a sense of purpose and
a critical outlook.
3.Basic and relevant chemical engineering unit

operations, systems and devices such as
reactors, heat exchangers and distillation
columns are considered here.
✔ The other systems can easily be done once all the
principles of modeling used here have been mastered.
INTRODUCTION-8
4. The organization of the material is in such
a way to:
✔ provide general principles of mathematical
modeling and types,
✔ derive mathematical formulation for some
chemical engineering processes,
✔ present the available methods of solution –
Analytical and numerical,
✔ demonstrate in a simple way, the use of
algebra packages such as MATLAB,
MATCAD and MATHEMATICA in solving the
derived models, and
INTRODUCTION-9
✔do analysis of the derived model weather or
not it represents the presented real life
problem.
The above 5-mentioned points represent key

procedures in Engineering Analysis and will
be considered here largely.
INTRODUCTION-10
What to Note?
•CA: 35 – 40 %
✔Attendance (2 marks)
✔Classwork (5 – 10 marks)
✔Home assignments (15 – 20 marks)
✔ Tests (40 – 50 marks)
•Exam: 60 – 65 %
✔ Mainly (80 – 100 marks)
INTRODUCTION- 11
This Note is not a all in

all Note on the course!
Keep good jottings and
additional notes in class
Don’t miss the class!
Don’t dub and dump

solutions to assignments
given to you
INTRODUCTION- 12
• Outlines
Mathematical Modelling of some

Chemical Engineering
Operations:
✔stirred tank reactors
✔tubular and plug-flow reactors
✔heat exchangers
✔solvent extractions,
✔distillation columns, etc.
INTRODUCTION- 13
• Outlines continued …
Analytical methods of solution
of the derived mathematical
equations
✔Matrix methods
✔Laplace transforms
✔Separable variables
✔Integrating factor
✔D-operator, etc
INTRODUCTION- 14
Numerical methods of solution of
the derived mathematical equations
✔Fixed-point
✔Bi-section method
✔Gauss-siedel
✔Newton-Raphsons
✔difference operator
✔Forward, Central and Backward difference
INTRODUCTION- 15
Numerical methods of solution contd..
✔Method of lines
✔Cranck-Nicolson
✔Trapezoidal, Simpson’s rule, Romberg
Integration
✔Eulers methods, Runge-Kutta type
methods, Adams Moulton Bashforth
methods, etc.
INTRODUCTION- 16
Solution of differential equations using
algebra packages:
✔MATHCAD
✔ MATLAB/SIMULINK
✔ MATHEMATICA
✔MAPPLE
✔SCILAB
✔EXCEL ???
✔Etc.
INTRODUCTION- 17
Results analysis - Statistics:
✔Types of observation
✔Analysis of variance
✔Test of significance and
✔Regression analysis
TEXTS
Process Modeling, Simulation and
Control for Chemical Engineers –
William L. Luyben
https://www.academia.edu/37264098/Proce
ss_Modelling_Stimulation_and_Control_for_
Chemical_Engineers_By_William_L_Luyben
_pdf
Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering

– V.G. Jeffreys and G.V. Jensons
Principles of mathematical Modeling and

Analysis in Chemical Engineering – B.A.
Ogunnaike
TEXTS
Mathematical Modeling in the Life
Sciences
– P. Doucet and P.B. Sloep
Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists by

Alan Jeffrey
Engineering Mathematics by Erwin Kreyzig
Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and

Simulation – B. Wayne Bequette
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ANALYSIS –

It involves the application of scientific

✔ Of course it is the same but …

✔It involves the application of scientific

•The course is aimed at preparing Chemical

•The subject at hand involves the application of

• The goal, rather ambitiously, has been to

2. That a successful model results from a

3.Basic and relevant chemical engineering unit

The above 5-mentioned points represent key

This Note is not a all in

Don’t miss the class!

Don’t dub and dump

Mathematical Modelling of some

Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering

Principles of mathematical Modeling and

Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists by

Engineering Mathematics by Erwin Kreyzig

Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and

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