Skill & Service-Based Startup Ideas
Startup Business Ideas #1: Buying Websites Just like stocks and property, in our interconnected world thanks to the internet, websites also have a really high value. Even as you read…
Presenting to Investors
Presenting the idea along with the supporting research to investors is an important step in the startup process, and one that requires thorough preparation. When scheduling a meeting with an…
Where Do I Get the Money?
Money to start a business comes from two basic sources: equity or debt. Equity is an investment in the business by you or by a partner (or stockholder). Debt can…
Examples of Reaction Rates
Thus, for first-order systems, the rate, r, is proportional (via k) to the amount present, ni' in the system at any particular time. Although at first glance, firstorder reaction rates…
Building Your Team
Every entrepreneur should identify what tasks need to be done and who will do them. Almost every new business will use outside professionals for the complex areas of law, accounting,…
General Properties of the Rate Function for a Single Reaction
The rate of reaction is generally a function of temperature and composition, and the development of mathematical models to describe the form of the reaction rate is a central problem…
The Rate of Reaction
For a homogeneous, closed system at uniform pressure, temperature, and composition in which a single chemical reaction occurs and is represented by the stoichiometric Equation (1.2.1), the extent ofreaction as…
The Extent of Reaction
The changes in a chemically reacting system can frequently, but not always (e.g., complex fermentation reactions), be characterized by a stoichiometric equation. The stoichiometric equation for a simple reaction can…
The Scope of Chemical Reaction Engineering
The subject of chemical reaction engineering initiated and evolved primarily to accomplish the task of describing how to choose, size, and determine the optimal operating conditions for a reactor whose…
Induced Polarization
Introduction Conrad Schlumberger (Dobrin 1960) probably was first to report the induced polarization phenomenon, which he called "provoked polarization." While making conventional resistivity measurements, he noted that the potential difference,…
