Good Writing: Exercises

Chemical Engineering 475Unit Operations

Laboratory

Equations – font consistency, define variables, do not use * or ^, or MathCad notation

Use leading zeros, be careful with significant figures: .954 should be 0.954 ; 4.6823894 ± 0.1261325

“Data” is a plural word. Number and title a table above the table. Number

and title a figure below the figure.Discuss all included tables and figures.Discuss them shortly before they appear in the report.

Be careful with subject/verb agreement and with person and tense.

Focus on Precision and on Conciseness.

General Issues

Although there was a large margin of error in the fouling factor this configuration is the only option for the pilot plants heat exchanger.

The compressibility of the gases can be found from the pressures recorded by the following equations that have been derived.

Then a combination of computers and manual readings collected data on pressures drops and temperatures for the meters.

The acquisition of the necessary kinetic data such as the reaction orders and reaction constants at specified temperature is carried out through experimental runs that vary either the experimental conditions of temperature or reactant ratios, or both.

For better certainty could improve process. It is recommended to verify current results to lower error in process.