Material and Energy Balances

Send feedback about this page to Professors Matthew Liberatore (Trine University) and Joanne Beckwith Maddock (Carnegie Mellon).

Syllabi and course notes

• The University of Texas at Austin: Syllabus
• University of Colorado Boulder: Syllabus, schedule, and notes for active learning and a flipped classroom. Contact LearnChemE@gmail.com to obtain access.
• Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis: (University of Notre Dame) 40 Jupyter notebooks that demonstrates mass and energy balances using Python.
• Design projects for Material and Energy Balances (West Virginia University)

Textbooks

• Material and Energy Balances by Matthew Liberatore
• Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, 4th ed. by Richard M. Felder, Ronald W. Rousseau, and Lisa G. Bullard 
• Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, 9th ed., by David M. Himmelblau
• Introduction to Chemical Processes: Principles, Analysis, Synthesis, 2nd ed. by Regina M. Murphy

• Wikibook: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Processes

Screencasts

• LearnChemE (University of Colorado Boulder): More than 190 screencast videos for material and energy balances
• Mass balance and Energy Balance Playlists (Michigan Technological University)

Concept Questions, Tests, and Libraries

Multiple-choice conceptual questions for use in class with student response systems (clickers)

• LearnChemE (University of Colorado Boulder): More than 325 material and energy balance ConcepTests.
• AIChE Concept Warehouse (Tufts University)

Digital Tools

• Chemical Engineering AppSuite HD: A phone app that contains thermophysical property data, steam tables, a periodic table, units converters, and equation of state solvers. Available for $0.99 USD.
• Python tools from Professor Gill at Texas Tech
• Student selected YouTube videos related to material and energy balances (Trine University)
• Self-Study Modules (University of Colorado Boulder): 33 self-study modules that include screencasts, ConcepTests, interactive simulations.
• Encyclopedia of chemical engineering equipment (University of Michigan)
• Safety modules for MEB (University of Michigan)
• ChE and MEB tools on Github
• APEx: Analysis of Processes with Excel (University of Kentucky): spreadsheet add-in to use tabulated data to solve algebraic equations
• Virtual laboratories/Digital experiments (University of Colorado Boulder): 36 digital experiments
• Interactive simulations (University of Colorado Boulder): more than 55 interactive simulations, most of which play in browsers.
  

Material and Energy Balance Publications

• Chemical Engineering Education (CEE) Journal Papers on Material and Energy Balances (Various authors)
• ASEE Conference Proceeding Papers on Material and Energy Balances (Various authors)
• A Student-Centered Approach to Teaching: Material and Energy Balances (North Carolina State University): Part 1 Part 2
• Active Learning and Just-in-Time Teaching in a Material and Energy Balances Course (University of Toledo)
• Interactive MEB Textbook High Reading Rates (University of Toledo)
• Interactive MEB textbook reading across multiple cohorts (University of Toledo)

Updated and verified August 10, 2026

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