RT Journal Article
T1 A Mathcad‐based educational experience to address the design of nonisothermal plug flow reactors
A1 Cuadri Vega, Antonio Abad
A1 Gallego Calvo, Rocío
A1 Martín Alfonso, María José
A1 Delgado Sánchez, Clara
A1 Cortés Triviño, Esperanza
A1 Tenorio Alfonso, Adrián
A1 Borrero López, Antonio María
A1 Ortega Bravo, Francisco José
AB Mathcad is a simple-to-use and intuitive mathematical software that helps students to minimize the mathematical difficulties involved in solving engineering problems. The design of nonisothermal plug flow reactors (PFR) is a fundamental issue within the field of chemical reaction engineering; however, its teaching–learning process is hindered by students' mathematical difficulties in solving ordinary differential equations. In this paper, the software Mathcad was conveniently integrated into an educational experience through the resolution of two real case studies. In the first one, a simple liquid-phase reaction is considered in a PFR working at different operating conditions, whereas the second case evaluates a PFR taking place multiple reactions (parallel reactions) with a heat exchanger attached. The assessment of this experience, which was held into two 5-h Mathcad workshops, revealed that Mathcad made the design of non-isothermal PFR more appealing, facilitated the understanding of the design process, and brought another dimension to the way the students perform complex calculations.
PB Wiley
SN 1061-3773
SN 1099-0542 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21204
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21204
LA eng
NO Cuadri, A. A., Gallego, R., Martín‐Alfonso, M. J., Delgado‐Sánchez, C., Cortés‐Triviño, E., Tenorio‐Alfonso, A., Borrero‐López, A. M., & Ortega, F. J. (2022). A Mathcad‐based educational experience to address the design of nonisothermal plug flow reactors. In Computer Applications in Engineering Education (Vol. 30, Issue 4, pp. 1145–1160). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22509
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026