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Introduction to Reactor Design: CHE 3K4

Administrative

Class materials

Announcements (previous ones) or follow @3k4reactors

28 Feb: if you wish to purchase and use Polymath for the course, visit http://polymath-software.com/fogler/ to get discount coupon codes. A 4-month software version can cost US$ 13.95 after using the coupon.

03 Mar: You might be interested in the YouTube webcasts present by Dr. Fogler, on various chapters of his textbook. Most of the videos cover exactly the same topics as this course.

Topic	Latest slides (last update, version #)
0. Course outline and overview	PDF
1. Mole balances	PDF (16 Jan, 19:00, v23)
2. Conversion and reactor sizing	PDF (21 Jan, 19:45, v26)
3. Rate laws and stoichiometry	PDF (31 Jan, 19:50, v28)
4. Isothermal reactor design	No slides, but click on link for PDF of handouts
5. Collection and analysis of rate data	No slides
6. Multiple reactions
7. Steady-state nonisothermal reactor design
8. Distributions of residence times
9. Course wrap up

Assignments, projects, exams

Course calendar

Assignments and Tutorials (by week number)

Week number	Tutorial	Assignment
2	Tutorial 1 and assignment 1 (with solutions)
3	Tutorial 2	Assignment 2 (with solutions)
4	Tutorial 3	Assignment 2 (with solutions)
5 and 6	Tutorial 4	Assignment 3A (with solutions)
7	Tutorial 5 and assignment 3B

Tests, exams and project

See all your course calendars here: http://learnche.mcmaster.ca/calendar

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-* 25 Feb: please review the example [[Isothermal_reactor_design_-_2013|covered in class on 25 February]]. Ensure that you understand how the problem was derived and then coded into your choice of Polymath, Python or MATLAB. Run the code for your choice and duplicate the plots shown.
 * 28 Feb: if you wish to purchase and use Polymath for the course, visit http://polymath-software.com/fogler/ to get discount coupon codes. A 4-month software version can cost US$ 13.95 after using the coupon.
-* 28 Feb: midterm grades are posted in Avenue; they will be returned at class.
+* 03 Mar: You might be interested in the [http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC25CBC8287575CFB4 YouTube webcasts present by Dr. Fogler], on various chapters of his textbook. Most of the videos cover exactly the same topics as this course.
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