Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing
Chapter One
INTRODUCTION
Computers have revolutionized the way chemical engineers design and analyze processes,
whether designing large units to make polyethylene or small microreactors to detect
biological agents. In fact, the engineering problems that many of you will study as
undergraduates today are similar in complexity to the problems Ph.D. students solved
30 or 40 years ago. Computer programs can now solve difficult problems in a fraction
of the time it used to take. Nowadays, you no longer have to write your own software
programs to use computers effectively. Computer programs can do the numerical calculations
for you, but you will still need to understand how to apply these programs to
specific engineering challenges.
The goal of this book is to help you practice better chemical engineering. Computers are
valuable tools that enable progressive, far-reaching chemical engineering. Unfortunately,
computers are not as basic as CD players, where you insert a CD, push a button, and get the
same result every time. Sometimes computer programs do not work ... read full excerpt from Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing ebook
