Dimensional Analysis and Scale-up in Chemical Engineering [Paperback]

Contemporary Chemical Process Engineers face complex design and research problems. Temperature-dependent physical properties and non-Newtonian flow behavior of substances in a process cannot be predicted by numerical mathematics. Scaling-up equipment for processing can often only be done with partial similarity methods. Standard textbooks often neglect topics like dimensional analysis, theory of similarity and scale-up. This book fills this gap! It is aimed both at university students and the process engineer. It presents dimensional analysis very comprehensively with illustrative examples of mechanical, thermal and chemical processes.Contemporary Chemical Process Engineers face complex design and research problems. Temperature-dependent physical properties and non-Newtonian flow behavior of substances in a process cannot be predicted by numerical mathematics. Scaling-up equipment for processing can often only be done with partial similarity methods. Standard textbooks often neglect topics like dimensional analysis, theory of similarity and scale-up. This book fills this gap! It is aimed both at university students and the process engineer. It presents dimensional analysis very comprehensively with illustrative examples of mechanical, thermal and chemical processes.1 Dimensional Analysis.- 1.1 A Brief Historical Survey.- 1.2 Introduction to Dimensional Analysis.- 1.3 Fundamentals of Dimensional Analysis.- 1.3.1 Physical quantities and the relationship between them.- 1.3.2 Consistency of secondary units and invariance of physical relationships.- 1.3.3 Physical dimensions, Systems of dimensions, Dimensional constants.- 1.3.4 The dimensional matrix and its linear dependence.- 1.3.5 The ? Theorem.- 2 Description of a Physical Process with a full Set of Dimensionless Numbers.- 2.1 The Relevance List for a Problem.- 2.1.1 Geometric variables.- 2.1.2 Material parameters.- 2.1.3 Process-related parameters.- 2.1.4 Universal physical constants.- 2.1.5 Intermediate quantities.lc"