Material Balance Calculator Skill

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Material and energy balance calculation skill for process design and troubleshooting

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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Material Balance Calculator Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/specializations/domains/science/chemical-engineering/skills/material-balance-calculator/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

The Material Balance Calculator Skill performs material and energy balance calculations for process design, optimization, and troubleshooting applications.

Capabilities

Steady-state material balances
Component balances
Energy balances
Recycle stream calculations
Purge stream optimization
Data reconciliation
Gross error detection
Balance closure verification
Heat integration calculations

Usage Guidelines

When to Use

Developing process designs
Troubleshooting processes
Optimizing operations
Reconciling plant data

Prerequisites

Stream compositions known
Flow rates measured/estimated
Reaction stoichiometry defined
Physical properties available

Best Practices

Close balances properly
Identify measurement errors
Document assumptions
Validate against plant data

Process Integration

This skill integrates with:

Process Flow Diagram Development
Process Simulation Model Development
Performance Testing and Validation

Configuration

material-balance-calculator:
  balance-types:
    - overall
    - component
    - element
  methods:
    - sequential-modular
    - equation-oriented
    - data-reconciliation

Output Artifacts

Material balance tables
Energy balance tables
Stream summaries
Reconciliation reports
Heat duty calculations

Signals

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Forks: 112
Last commit: Sep 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: material-balance-calculator
Source: github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter

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