10.65  Chemical Reactor Engineering

A reminder to everyone that course evaluations are due by TOMORROW at 9 AM. As of present, only 17/49 of you have completed an evaluation for 10.65. This is very poor. The professors and TAs read all of your comments and design the course in future years to respond to what you felt was most or least useful. Please help us out with your feedback.

The 10.65 Professors and TAs

The 10.65 final exam will be on Monday, May 21, from 1:30 pm-4:30 pm in Walker Memorial. As was the case with the first two exams, you should plan to arrive early so that we can begin promptly at 1:30. You are encouraged to bring a calculator to the exam. You may also bring with you any notes that you have taken over the course of this semester, your graded homeworks and exams, and/or any material posted on this year's Stellar site. Please feel free to email the TAs or the professors if it is not clear what you are allowed or encouraged to use on the final.

Good luck,
The 10.65 TAs

Final exams from 2010 and 2011 with solutions have been posted on Stellar. These will be the only practice problems distributed for studying purposes. Please remember that content is covered in a slightly different order every year, so some past exam questions may not have been covered in depth on this year's homework. Remember that you are responsible only for what has been covered through homework 8, the assigned reading materials, and general concepts & in-class exercises taught in lecture. If there are specific questions on what is testable on the final exam, please direct those to Profs. Strano or Sikes.

Grades for HW7 have also been uploaded to Stellar. Please verify the accuracy of these scores.

Brandon

The 10.65 review session will be held from 5-7 pm on Thursday, May 17, in 66-144. Regular TA office hours will be held on Monday. Come with any lecture questions you have or questions you've had about past homework problems or exams. There will be no Tuesday office hours this week. To recap:

Monday (5/14): TA Office Hours, 5-7 pm, 56-162
Tuesday (5/15): No TA Office Hours
Thursday (5/17): Final Exam Review, 5-7 pm, 66-144

For those who could not attend this week's review of internal and external mass transfer + reaction, we have posted readings from Fogler, chapter 12, on the Stellar site. Stellar is also up-to-date with all of the previous lecture notes.

Brandon

Today (5/7) and tomorrow (5/8) in office hours we will have a brief discussion of competing external transport, internal diffusion, and reaction rate limiting kinetics for catalyst particles (and the analogy to enzymes). The material covered each day will be the same, so you will only need to attend one office hour to receive the information. The schedule will be:

5-5:30: Competing transport and reaction limited rates
5:30-7: Open Q&A on homework and lecture material

The TAs