ENV 4053C
Fate and Transport of Chemicals in the Environment
Spring 2022 semester
Instructor: J.A. Cunningham (cunning@usf.edu)
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Syllabus and course information
• Here is the syllabus for spring 2022.
Homework assignments
• Homework 1 is due on Monday, January 24.
• Homework 2 is due on Monday, January 31.
• Homework 3 is due on Monday, February 7.
• Homework 4 is due on Monday, February 14.
• Homework 5 is due on Monday, February 21.
• Homework 6 was due on…I don’t remember exactly when this one was due.
• Homework 7 is due on Monday, March 28.
• Homework 8 is due on Monday, April 4.
• Homework 9 is due on Monday, April 18.
Laboratory experiment
• We will measure the octanol-water partition coefficient for acetophenone. Click here for the instructions.
Exams, tests, and quizzes (incl. from previous years)
• The
2022
midterm exam was administered on March 9.
Here is my
solution set to the 2022 midterm exam.
Other documents and figures
• I made a figure that compares fractional conversion in a CMFR and a PFR for first-order reaction at steady state. For a given value of the Damköhler number, the PFR is always more efficient than the CMFR. The difference seems to be greatest when Da ≈ 2 or so (…I haven’t checked that mathematically, I am just eyeballing it from the graph).
…by the way, if you like that graph, see also one of the homework problems on HW 8, for the reactor with the triangle-shaped residence-time distribution function; I graphed fractional conversion vs Da for the “triangle” reactor, and, as expected, it falls between the CMFR and the PFR, but much closer to the PFR (for the particular RTD that I gave in the problem).
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