Chemical Reaction Engineering
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Thermodynamics
Chemical Process Safety
Fictional Minerals
100
The temperature dependence of a chemical reaction is commonly described through the use of this equation.
What is the Arrhenius equation?
100
This geometric entity, having both magnitude and direction, motivated a villain in the comedy film Despicable Me.
What is a vector?
100
This process equipment is used to transfer energy between process streams.
What is a heat exchanger?
100
This chart contains the dry bulb temperature, the humidity ratio, the wet bulb temperature, relative humidity, saturation temperature, and the enthalpy of dry air.
What is psychrometric chart?
100
This is defined as a chemical or physical condition that has the potential for causing damage to people, property or the environment.
What is a hazard?
100
This causes superman to lose his super powers.
What is kryptonite?
200
The Optimal (i.e., smallest total reactor volume) order of 2 ideal reactors in series to achieve 80% conversion for the kinetics denoted here.
What is a CSTR followed by a PFR?
200
Given the lengths of 2 sides of a triangle and the corresponding angle in between, this law will provide the length of the 3rd side.
What is the Law of Cosines?
200
This process involves vaporizing a portion of a liquid feed. The vapor contains a concentration of the more volatile component.
What is distillation?
200
This is equal to H – TS.
What is Gibbs Free Energy (G)?
200
This is defined as a rapid expansion of gases resulting in a rapidly moving pressure or shock wave.
What is an explosion?
200
Used to control the power of the warp drive system of starships on Star Trek.
What are dilithium crystals?
300
Enzyme kinetics described by the following equation:
What are Michaelis-Menten Kinetics?
300
In differential calculus, this famous rule uses derivatives to evaluate limits involving indeterminate forms.
What is L’Hôspital’s rule?
300
In this process, components of a fluid phase are transferred to the surface of a solid phase.
What is adsorption?
300
This factor is used to account for deviations from ideal behavior in a liquid mixture of chemical substances.
What is an activity coefficient?
300
This type of spring-loaded relief valve is used when high backpressures are present.
What is a balanced bellows?
300
Provided the means for Professor Brainard’s car to fly in the 1961 movie The Absent-Minded Professor.
What is flubber?
400
This dimensionless number, given by 𝜏k for a first-order reaction, provides an estimate of the conversion in a CSTR.
What is the Damköhler number?
400
In 1637, Descartes published La Géométrie, which contained the first written form of this famous equation used to find roots of a second-order polynomial.
What is quadratic formula?
400
A simplified version of this unit operation is making coffee from ground beans. A component is removed from a solid by a liquid solvent.
What is leaching?
400
This law states that as the temperature approaches 0 K, the entropy of the system approaches a minimum value.
What is the third law of thermodynamics?
400
The deflagration index for gases and dusts is calculated by multiplying (dP/dt)max by the volume (V) raised to this power.
What is 1/3?
400
Used to fuel Martian reactors in The War of the Worlds.
What is Heavy Elements?
500
This modulus (as shown below) is useful in predicting reactor behavior when solid catalyst particles are used.
What is the Thiele Modulus?
500
This famous identity states that eiπ + 1 = 0.
What is Euler’s Identity?
500
This process equipment uses a drum to continuously separate solids from a slurry. The cake is continuously removed by a knife.
What is a rotary drum filter?
500
This is the most common engine cycle that does not use a spark.
What is a diesel engine?
500
This equipment, abbreviated ARSST, is commonly used to evaluate reactive hazards.
What is the Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool?
500
This mysterious substance was accidently used by Professor Utonium when he created the Powerpuff Girls, thereby giving them superpowers.
What is Chemical X? (or What is a can of Whoopass?)