Department of Chemical Engineering
Technical specialists at the company have flagged part of an internal calculation by a junior engineer as potentially erroneous. The excerpt is given below. Please prepare a brief memo for our Quality Assurance department describing the errors and proposing corrections, if any.
Department of Chemical Engineering
The gas mixture exiting the reactor is sent to an adiabatic compressor where its molar volume is decreased by a factor of 3. Experiments on the mixture show that its heat capacity is well-described by the simple correlation