The pedagogy of teaching chemical reaction engineering is continually advancing through the use of new computational tools and, therefore, the integration of these new tools into the Chemical Engineering degree is challenging. This paper reports an educational experience dealing with the use of Mathcad software to complement and to facilitate the design of chemical reactors involving multiple reactions. A continuous stirred‐tank reactor taking place series reactions and two reactors (continuous stirred‐tank reactor or plug flow reactor) arranged in series involving parallel reactions were presented as case studies. This experience, which was carried out with the third‐year chemical engineering students enrolled in the chemical reactors course, revealed that Mathcad facilitates the understanding of the theoretical concepts related to multiple reactions and also reduces the complexity of mathematical calculation to a minimum. Thus, the use of this computer tool allows the teacher (a) to delve deeper into more issues related to the design of chemical reactors, and (b) to consider this tool perfectly useful for other courses corresponding to the Chemical Engineering degree.

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使用 Mathcad 促进涉及多个反应的化学反应器的设计

通过使用新的计算工具，化学反应工程的教学法不断进步，因此，将这些新工具整合到化学工程学位中具有挑战性。本文报告了使用 Mathcad 软件来补充和促进涉及多个反应的化学反应器设计的教育经验。以发生串联反应的连续搅拌釜反应器和串联反应的两个反应器（连续搅拌釜反应器或活塞流反应器）作为案例研究。此次体验是与注册化学反应器课程的三年级化学工程学生一起进行的，揭示了 Mathcad 有助于理解与多反应相关的理论概念，并将数学计算的复杂性降至最低。因此，使用该计算机工具可以让教师 (a) 更深入地研究与化学反应器设计相关的更多问题，以及 (b) 认为该工具对于与化学工程学位相对应的其他课程非常有用。