Registration Hell
CHE 319
Transport Phenomena
The vapor pressure of a liquid in a closed container meets the kitchen appliance your mom used to make beans in 30 minutes.
What is a Vapor Pressure Cooker?
Flow in a pipe is usually considered laminar when this dimensionless number is below about 2,100.
Reynold's Number
1
Edison
1
210
CHE 348
Numerical Methods
Social influence from your friends meets the loss in fluid pressure across a pipe or packed bed.
What is Peer Pressure Drop?
Lumped capacitance analysis is valid when this dimensionless number, comparing internal conduction resistance to surface convection resistance, is less than 0.1.
Biot Number
2
Badgewell
2
Transport
CHE 372
Reactor Analysis and Design
The minimum energy needed for reactants to form products meets a Red Bull or Monster.
Activation Energy Drink
This equation relates a reaction’s rate constant to temperature using activation energy.
Arrhenius equation
3
Keitz
3
Thermo
CH 328N
Organic Chemistry 2
A vessel where a liquid is partially vaporized by a sudden pressure drop meets the percussion section of a marching band.
What is a Flash Drum Line?
For a positive-order reaction at the same conversion, this reactor type needs less volume than a CSTR.
Plug flow reactor (PFR)
4
Sanoja
4
Materials
CH 153K
The temperature at which water vapor begins to condense meets the 1991 surfer-bank-robber movie with Keanu Reeves
Dew Point Break
This dimensionless number compares momentum diffusivity to thermal diffusivity, and it’s about 0.7 for air and about 7 for water at room temperature.
Prandtl number
5
Lynd
5
Senior Lab