Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work.
- Calculate mass flow rates of streams.
- Calculate mass change due to a chemical reaction.
- Conduct mass balance over process components.
- Determine desired boundaries for mass balance calculation
- Determine possible sources of data required from the plant
- Match and adjust sources of data to desired boundary for mass balance
- Determine overall mass balance
- Determine mass balance for each significant component/ reactant and product
- Determine the adequacy (or otherwise) of the process/plant heating/cooling system to meet production requirements.