TY - CHAP N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. SP - 1 A1 - Fraga, ES UR - http://www.rsc.org/ EP - 21 Y1 - 2016/09/16/ AV - public ED - Simons, SJR TI - Process Analysis -- The importance of mass and energy balances KW - process analysis KW - mass balance KW - energy balance KW - chemical engineering CY - Cambridge, UK T2 - Concepts of Chemical Engineering for Chemists PB - Royal Society of Chemistry ID - discovery10136916 N2 - Process engineering includes the generation, study and analysis of process designs. All processes must obey some fundamental laws of conservation. We can group these into conservation of matter and conservation of energy. Mass and energy balances are fundamental operations in the analysis of any process. This chapter describes some of their basic principles. ER -