文档介绍：Parametric Sensitivity in Chemical Systems
The behavior of a chemical system is affected by many physicochemical parameters.
The sensitivity of the system's behavior to changes in parameters is known as para-
metric sensitivity. When a system operates in a parametrically sensitive region, its
performance es unreliable and changes sharply with small variations in param-
eters. Thus, it is of great value to those who design and operate chemical reactors and
systems to be able to predict sensitivity behavior.
This book is the first to provide a thorough treatment of the concept of parametric
sensitivity and the mathematical tool it generated, sensitivity analysis. The empha-
sis is on applications to real situations. The book begins with definitions of various
sensitivity indices and describes the numerical techniques used for their evaluation.
Extensively illustrated chapters discuss sensitivity analysis in a variety of chemical
reactors - batch, tubular, continuous-flow, fixed-bed - and bustion systems,
air pollution processes, and metabolic processes. In addition, various plots and sim-
ple formulas are provided to readily evaluate the operational behavior of reactors.
Chemical engineers, graduate students, researchers, chemists and other practitioners
will e this valuable resource.
Arvind Varma is the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical Engineering at the
University of Notre Dame.
Massimo Morbidelli is Professor of Chemical Reaction Engineering at ETH Zen-
trum, Switzerland.
Hua Wu is Senior Chemical Engineer at Ausimont Research & Development Cen-
ter, Milano, Italy.
CAMBRIDGE SERIES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Series Editor:
Arvind Varma, University of Notre Dame
Editorial Board:
Alexis T. Bell, University of California, Berkeley
John Bridgwater, University of Cambridge
L. Gary Leal, University of California, Santa Barbara
Massimo Morbidelli, ETH, Zurich
Stanley I. Sandier, University of Delaware
Michael L. Shuler, Cornell Univ