Talk:Steady-state (chemical engineering)

This could be useful: http://sti.srs.gov/fulltext/tr2000132r1/tr2000132r1.html and: http://www.mines.edu/Academic/courses/math_cs/macs261/macs261j/LABS/SP05/lab9.html

Merger and conversion to a redirect
At present, this unreferenced article is so poorly written as to have virtually no engineering significance. I have moved the Chemical and Bio Engineering tag from this article to the Steady state article and propose to convert this article to a redirect preserving its content below. I suggest initial effort be focused on expanding the chemical engineering section of the steady state article, with a goal of transferring material to this article when adequate information has been assembled for a stand-alone article. A main article link with a summary paragraph should be retained in the steady state article.Thewellman (talk) 21:36, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Article contents to be preserved for potential future use
A unit operation is considered to be at a steady state with respect to an operation variable if that variable does not change with time. Such a process is called a steady-state process.

Example
Say that Chris has a drum of orange juice with a hole in the bottom of the drum. Jeff's job is to use a hose and keep filling the drum with orange juice. If the hose is discharging the same amount of orange juice into the drum as is draining out, then the orange juice level in the drum would not rise or fall. When the orange juice level is constant it would be considered to be at steady state. This can also be applied to temperature profiles.