CHE 555 NUMERICAL METHODS & OPTIMIZATION

ASSIGNMENT 1
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
This is a group assignment (3 members) which has to be submitted within 1 week after
receiving the assignment. Standardize all the calculation up to 4 decimal points.
QUESTION 1
An isothermic reaction is carried out adiabatically and the CSTR reactor design
algorithm is shown as below:

The reaction is second order in A. The feed which is equimolar in a solvent and A, and its
enters the reactor at a total volumetric flow rate, v0 of 10 dm3/min with the initial
concentration of A being 4 M. The rate constant, k given as 0.1 dm3/mol.min at 380 K.
Determine the conversion can be achieved in 600 dm3 CSTR by using the following
methods:
a) Graphically
b) False position method with initial guesses of Xl =0.6 and Xu =0.9
c) Secant method with initial estimates of X-1 = 0.6 and X0, =0.9
Iterate until the approximate error falls below 1 %. Find the absolute relative approximate
error at the end of each iteration.
(20 marks)
QUESTION 2
A factory produces three types of chocolate namely as Green Tea Chocolate (A), Dark
Chocolate (B) and Milk Chocolate (C). These types of Chocolates have different
ingredient that suit to different flavor such as green tea, dark and milk taste. The
ingredients quantities required for each chocolate pack are presented in Table 1.
Table 1: Ingredients of each chocolate pack.
Chocolate
A
B
C

Cocoa (g)
40
20
25

Flavor (g)
5
7.5
10

Sugar (g)
10
30
20

If there are only 2 kg of Cocoa, 0.5 kg of Flavor and 1.5 kg of sugar available, determine
quantity of instant coffee that can be produced by using Nave Gauss Elimination and
Gauss Seidel methods. Hint: Start calculation of Gauss Seidel methods with B = C = 17;
tolerance approximate error 0.05%.
(20 marks)
QUESTION 3
Solve Question 2 using MS Excel and Matlab. Write the details common (MS Excel &
Matlab) and result of this problem.
(10 marks)