Yea I had even beefed up my reactor section in my quick reference and there were some questions I could not answer in the PM section. The mass transfer questions were not to bad. I think I am going to order that book but it sounds more like a text book which is fine but do you know of a chemical kinetics reference that is like crane like a condensed 40 page spiral bound reference? The crane manual saved my butt on the morning section as far as time and it would have been nice to have a reference like that for kinetics where they have all the equations layed out left right and sideways so I am not reinventing the wheel during the exam, one of the kinetics questions I got I had to integrate and that was a pain.I felt the same way. The morning was pretty straightforward but the afternoon section, although less math, was alot tougher. I was not expecting such a heavy dose of reactor design/kinetics and mass transfer/distillation. I thought just a few problems from each of those topics would show up but I was wrong. Also, there were hardly any fluids/heat transfer problems in the PM portion, although there were quite a few in the AM section.
As far as kinetics, I would check out "Chemical Reaction Engineering" by Levenspiel. I took it to the test and used it quite a bit. There is a great chart in one of the first few chapters with all the design eqns you need for batch/PFR/CSTR reactors for Zero/1st/2nd order reactions (reversible and non-reversible, constant density and varying volume).
I'm hoping I got 30/40 in the AM and 25/40 in PM but that could be a stretch. Guess we'll see in a couple months.
I don't know of one, sorry. I did not get the quick reference, only the Reference Manual by Lindburg, which had a pretty pathetic kinetics section. Basically, I read through the first 5 or 6 chapters of Levenspiel (it is a textbook but is a pretty easy read) and made my own "quick reference" sheet with design equations for each type of reactor (batch/PFR/CSTR). This came in handy during the exam, although I did have to consult Levenspiel for a couple problems that weren't as straightforward.Yea I had even beefed up my reactor section in my quick reference and there were some questions I could not answer in the PM section. The mass transfer questions were not to bad. I think I am going to order that book but it sounds more like a text book which is fine but do you know of a chemical kinetics reference that is like crane like a condensed 40 page spiral bound reference? The crane manual saved my butt on the morning section as far as time and it would have been nice to have a reference like that for kinetics where they have all the equations layed out left right and sideways so I am not reinventing the wheel during the exam, one of the kinetics questions I got I had to integrate and that was a pain.
I also did the same thing in my quick reference but when in the exam I found that the equations that I had in the quick reference did not help me all that much other than the PFR question that asked to solve for volume. Eh I am going to order that book and hopefully I passed the exam so I dont have to mess with it again. We will know in a few months.I don't know of one, sorry. I did not get the quick reference, only the Reference Manual by Lindburg, which had a pretty pathetic kinetics section. Basically, I read through the first 5 or 6 chapters of Levenspiel (it is a textbook but is a pretty easy read) and made my own "quick reference" sheet with design equations for each type of reactor (batch/PFR/CSTR). This came in handy during the exam, although I did have to consult Levenspiel for a couple problems that weren't as straightforward.
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