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In this exercise, the fractional conversion XA for the 4-min isothermal batch operation is 77.1%. Obviously, the required answer is obtained through trial-and-error. Equation 5-45 can be incorporated into a computer program or mathematical package such as Mathcad, Maple, Polymath, or Mathematica. 

Mathematical methods are discussed in references 21-27 (some of these are "golden oldies"). Integrals, series, and other tables can be found in [28-33]. Of course, much labor can now be saved by using the computer program package Mathematica. 

The revolution created in 1960 by the publication and widespread adoption of the textbook Transport Phenomena by Bird et al. ushered in a new era for chemical engineering. This book has nurtured several generations on the importance of problem formulation by elementary differential balances. Modeling (or idealization) of processes has now become standard operating procedure, but, unfortunately, the sophistication of the modeling exercise has not been matched by textbooks on the solution of such models in quantitative mathematical terms. Moreover, the widespread availability of computer software packages has weakened the generational skills in classical analysis. 

The mathematical problems to be solved are then (i) how many terms should be included in the polynomial, and (ii) what values must be assigned to the coefficients a, b, etc. Computer software packages which address these problems are normally iterative they fit first a straight line, then a quadratic curve, then a cubic curve, and so on, to the data, and present to the user the information needed to decide which of these equations is the most suitable. In practice quadratic or cubic equations are often entirely adequate to provide a good fit to the data polynomials with many terms are... 

Mathematical models are particularly useful because of the large body of mathematical and computational theory that exists for the study and solution of equations. Based on this theory, a wide range of techniques has been developed. In recent years, computer programs have been written that implement virtually all of these techniques. Computer software packages are now widely available for both simulation and computational assistance in the analysis and design of control systems (Chapter 5). 

As we see, special Bessel functions are included in the equations. Despite an outward difficult look of those equations they are completely usable to calculate kinetic curves of substances B and C. Bessel functions values for given parameters values could be computed with the help of mathematic packages. Let us pint, that Maple s built-in functions Bessell(0,x), Bessell(l,x), BesselK (0,x), BesselK(l,x) have their Mathcad-analogs in the form of built-in functions I0(x), Il(x), K0(x), Kl(x) correspondingly. 

Chemical kinetics is one of the parts of physical chemistry with the most developed mathematical description. Studying basics of chemical kinetics and successful practical application of knowledge obtained demand proficiency in mathematical formalization of certain problems oti kinetics and making rather sophisticated calculations. In this respect, it is difficult or sometimes even impossible to make considerable part of such calculation without using a computer. With a mass of literature on chemical kinetics the problems of practical computing the kinetics are not actually discussed. For this reasmi the authors consider useful to state basics of the formal kinetics of chemical reactions and approaches to two main kinetic problems, direct and inverse, in terms of up-to-date mathematical packages Maple and Mathcad. 

A. R. Conn, N. I. M. Gould, and Ph. L. Toint, LANCELOT A FORTRAN Package for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization (Release A) , Vol. 17 of Springer Series in Computational Mathematics , Springer, New Yoric, 1992. 

Once the objective and the constraints have been set, a mathematical model of the process can be subjected to a search strategy to find the optimum. Simple calculus is adequate for some problems, or Lagrange multipliers can be used for constrained extrema. When a Rill plant simulation can be made, various alternatives can be put through the computer. Such an operation is called jlowsheeting. A chapter is devoted to this topic by Edgar and Himmelblau Optimization of Chemical Processes, McGraw-HiU, 1988) where they list a number of commercially available software packages for this purpose, one of the first of which was Flowtran. 

Simulation is best described as the process of translating a real system into a working model in order to run experiments. A simulation does not duplicate a system rather it is an abstraction of reality using mathematics to express cause-and-effect relationships that determine the behavior of the system. Hence the representation displayed on a computer may not always be pictori-ally similar to the real system, and, if it is, then it must be regarded as an added bonus. Software for computer simulation is often customized and based on that developed in academia. There are not many commercial packages available for pharmaceutical formulation. 

Basically two search procedures for non-linear parameter estimation applications apply. (Nash and Walker-Smith, 1987). The first of these is derived from Newton s gradient method and numerous improvements on this method have been developed. The second method uses direct search techniques, one of which, the Nelder-Mead search algorithm, is derived from a simplex-like approach. Many of these methods are part of important mathematical computer-based program packages (e.g., IMSL, BMDP, MATLAB) or are available through other important mathematical program packages (e.g., IMSL). 

Computational chemistry and quantum chemistry have enlisted the computer and software in an entirely new kind of experimental methodology. Computational chemists, for example, don t study matter directly. In the past, chemists who wanted to determine molecular properties chose their instrumentation, prepared a sample, observed the reactions of the sample, and deduced the molecule s properties. Computational chemists now choose their computer and software packages and get their information by modeling and mathematical analyses. 

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