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14.3.28 Using a Tracer to Determine the Model Parameters
in a CSTR with an Exchange Volume 900
14.4 Use of Software Packages to Determine the Model
Parameters 901
14.5 Other Models of Nonideal Reactors Using CSTRs
andPFRs 904
14.6 Using the RTD Versus Needing a Model 904
Summary 907
Questions and Problems 909
CD-ROM Material 916
Supplementary Reading 917

Appendix A NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES 921

A. 1 Useful Integrals in Reactor Design 921
A.2 Equal-Area Graphical Differentiation 922
A.3 Solutions to Differential Equations 924
A.4 Numerical Evaluation of Integrals 924
AS Software Packages 926

Appendix B IDEAL GAS CONSTANT
AND CONVERSION FACTORS 927

Appendix C THERMODYNAMIC RELATIONSHIPS INVOLVING
THE EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT 929

Appendix D MEASUREMENT OF SLOPES ON SEMILOG PAPER 935

Appendix E SOFTWARE PACKAGES 936

Appendix F NOMENCLATURE 938

Appendix G MOLECULAR DYNAMICS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS 941

G. 1 Collision Theory 941
G.2 Transition State Theory 944
G.3 Molecular Dynamics 948

Appendix H OPEN-ENDED PROBLEMS 953

H. 1 Design of Reaction Engineering Experiment 953
H.2 Effective Lubricant Design 953
H.3 Peach Bottom Nuclear Reactor 953