Stellar Course Management System

Office Hour

Friday May 19
9:30-11am
Room 319

Announced on 18 May 2006  3:51  p.m. by Benjamin Fine

Review Review

In preparation for the exam, your wonderful TAs will provide the following:

1. Open Office Hour: Friday 9:30-11:00am with Ben
2. Review of 3rd Part of Course: Saturday 12:00-2:00pm. Sample problems and solutions will be posted on Stellar.
3. 2004 Exam with solutions will be posted shortly

Room details will follow, but assume building 66.

We will also attempt to answer all your emails over the weekend. Bear in mind that we have to eat and sleep.

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Announced on 18 May 2006  3:28  p.m. by Benjamin Fine

Special Lecture on Energy

An optional lecture which may be of interest to you is listed below. Note that Dr. Bodman was formerly a faculty member in this department. Prof. Gleason

You are invited to:

The 2006 Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture in Chemical Engineering

Presented by:

The Honorable Samuel W. Bodman

U.S. Secretary of Energy

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

3:30 pm

Kirsch Auditorium (32-123)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Refreshments will be served at 3:00pm

Seating is Limited – Come Early

The Lecture will be webcast live (link at http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/hottel.html)

and also broadcast on MIT Cable Channel 8.

Samuel Wright Bodman became the 11th Secretary of Energy upon a unanimous confirmation by the United States Senate on February 1, 2005. He leads the Department of Energy with a budget in excess of $23 billion and over 100,000 federal and contractor employees.

Previously, Secretary Bodman served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury beginning in February 2004. He also served the Bush Administration as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce beginning in 2001. A financier and executive by trade, with three decades of experience in the private sector, Secretary Bodman was well suited manage the day-to-day operations of both of these cabinet agencies.

Born in 1938 in Chicago, he graduated in 1961 with a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University. In 1965, he completed his ScD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the next six years he served as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and began his work in the financial sector as Technical Director of the American Research and Development Corporation, a pioneer venture capital firm. He and his colleagues provided financial and managerial support to scores of new business enterprises located throughout the United States.

From there, Secretary Bodman went to Fidelity Venture Associates, a division of the Fidelity Investments. In 1983 he was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity Investments and a Director of the Fidelity Group of Mutual Funds. In 1987, he joined Cabot Corporation, a Boston-based Fortune 300 company with global business activities in specialty chemicals and materials, where he served as Chairman, CEO, and a Director. Over the years, he has been a Director of many other publicly owned corporations.

Secretary Bodman has also been active in public service. He is a former Director of M.I.T.'s School of Engineering Practice and a former member of the M.I.T. Commission on Education. He also served as a member of the Executive and Investment Committees at M.I.T., a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a Trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the New England Aquarium.

Secretary Bodman is married to M. Diane Bodman. He has three children, two stepchildren, and eight grandchildren.

Announced on 03 May 2006  9:01  a.m. by Karen Gleason

Today's Office hour

Due to a screw up in the scheduling, Today's office hours will be held in room 56-114.

Announced on 25 April 2006  4:53  p.m. by Minggang She

Office Hours Error

Problem 2b

Some students suggested finding the required fugacities from

G - Gid = RTln(f/P)

Note that this approach is correct in principle (it is used in Q1); however it must be noted that the G and Gid are at the same T and P. This is - again, a recurring theme - because f/P is essentially a residual function of G. Thus, G(T,P) can be found from tables, but Gid is not tabulated. If you are using this method, you must some calculation to find Gid from some known G0 at reference T and P using deltaG_id.

The other approach as I began to describe involves using the steam table data and numerically integrating (V - Videal)dP from 0 to P to find ln(f/P). Since data at zero is not available, a small value of P and its corresponding V can be used.

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Announced on 10 April 2006  10:32  p.m. by Benjamin Fine