RT Journal Article
T1 Using Mathcad to facilitate the design of chemical reactors involving multiple reactions
A1 Cuadri Vega, Antonio Abad
A1 Martín Alfonso, José Enrique
A1 Urbano Baena, Juan
AB The pedagogy of teaching chemical reaction engineering is continually advancing through the use of new computational tools and, therefore, the integration of these new tools into the Chemical Engineering degree is challenging. This paper reports an educational experience dealing with the use of Mathcad software to complement and to facilitate the design of chemical reactors involving multiple reaction. A continuous stirred tank reactor taking place series reactions and two reactors (continuous stirred tank reactor or plug flow reactor) arranged in series involving parallel reactions were presented as case studies. This experience, which was carried out with the third-year chemical engineering students enrolled in the Chemical Reactors course, revealed that Mathcad facilitates the understanding of the theoretical concepts related to multiple reactions and also reduces the complexity of mathematical calculation to a minimum. Thus, the use of this computer tool allows the teacher: (1) to delve deeper into more issues related to the design of chemical reactors, and (2) to consider this tool perfectly useful for other courses corresponding to the Chemical Engineering degree.
PB Wiley
SN 1061-3773
YR 2019
FD 2019-12-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24036
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24036
LA eng
NO Cuadri, A. A., Martín‐Alfonso, J. E., & Urbano, J. (2019). Using Mathcad to facilitate the design of chemical reactors involving multiple reactions. In Computer Applications in Engineering Education (Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 293–303). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22192
NO This work has been possible thanks to the Teaching Innovation Project entitled “Nueva metodología docente para la resolución de problemas ingenieriles: uso de Mathcad”, code PID008, granted by the Vicerrectorado de Innovación y Empleabilidad de la Universidad de Huelva. Authors wish to acknowledge the indispensable contribution of the third-year chemical engineering students enrolled in Chemical Reactors I course corresponding to the 2018/2019 academic year.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026