Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Chemical Engineering

The Chemical Engineering Special Study was revised and updated for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. All the theory was explained in the Students’ Book. The experiments were described in a separate file. The Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide provided the technical information for setting up the practical work together with answers to the questions about the experiments. In addition the web pages of the Re:act web site provided a study guide for each chapter to help students work independently.

Contents of the Students’ Book
Chapter 1 The chemical industry page
Chapter 2 Unit operations
Chapter 3 Transport of materials
Chapter 4 Energy transfer
Chapter 5 The chemical reactor
Chapter 6 Separation
Chapter 7 Developing a process
Glossary
Derivation of the design equations

The experiments
Experiment 1 Investigation of flow patterns
Experiment 2 Investigating heat transfer in a Leibig condenser
Experiment 3 Finding the concentration of a solution of hydrogen peroxide
Experiment 4 The continuous-flow stirred tank reactor
Experiment 5 The continuous-flow tubular reactor
Experiment 6a A phase diagram for the propanone–ethanol system (study task)
Experiment 6b Verifying some points on the phase diagram for the propanone–ethanol system
Experiment 7 Reflux ratio

Contents of the Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide
Experiment 1 Investigation of flow patterns (Chapter 3)
Experiment 2 Investigating heat transfer in a Liebig condenser (Chapter 4)
Experiment 3 Finding the concentration of a solution of hydrogen peroxide (Chapter 5)
Experiment 4 The continuous-flow stirred tank reactor (Chapter 5)
Experiment 5 The continuous-flow tubular reactor (Chapter 5)
Experiment 6a A phase diagram for the propanone-ethanol system (Study Task) (Chapter 6)
Experiment 6b Verifying some points on the phase diagram for the propanone-ethanol system (Chapter 6)
Experiment 7 Reflux ratio (Chapter 6)