Understanding the Procedure to Approach, Formulate, and Solve Material Balance Problems

2 Understanding the Procedure to Approach, Formulate, and Solve Material Balance Problems 

In this section we present and describe, step by step, this schematic procedure to approach material balance problems. 

As depicted in Fig. 7.15 the proposed procedure consists of five steps in series that are described and analyzed below. Later, in the warm-up examples, we will apply it to problems. 

Flow-diagram, variable definition-codification and inclusion of all available data 

Firstly, what are the degrees of freedom For example if you are solving the equation X Y = 5, we can say that it has infinite solutions because for a specific value for X you get a specific value for Y, but for a 

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