Lecturers face a race against the clock as soon as the fresh-faced first-years step through the chemical engineering department doors. With so much new technology hitting the streets, and only a few years to learn it in, universities are faced with difficult choices on what to teach and what to miss out. The graphical McCabe-Thiele (MT) method for distillation is a classic. It has been taught internationally to undergraduate chemical engineers for almost three-quarters of a century. As the Esperanto of distillation, it not only reaches beyond language barriers, but also breaks down communication difficulties between older generations and those still wet behind the ears.
展开▼
