Processes and Techniques
Thermodynamics
Dimension-less Numbers
Dimension-full Numbers
ChE Faculty
200
Oh no! There are volatile impurities in my ethanol! Better use this process that includes an enriching section
What is distillation?
200
In an adiabatic system, this first law term disappears
What is Q?
200
Laminar vs turbulent
What is Reynolds number(Re)?
200
What is kinetic energy?
200
Will tell you where coffee came from
Who is Woody?
400
This device is a handy way to save money on heat recycling
What is a heat exchanger?
400
Robert Frost would advise to go down this type of function less traveled
What is a path function?
400
A handy way of getting a fluids density
What is specific gravity?
400
What is mass flow rate? (mdot)
400
Ode45 wont run? Should have paid more attention in this ChE faculty's class.
Who is Dr. Utgikar?
600
Saddles are commonly used in absorbing and stripping columns to improve what
What is surface area?
600
'Forcing' this kind of heat transfer method may not be 'natural'
What is convection?
600
Used to calculate head loss in a pipe; Moody diagram
What is the friction factor(DW or Fanning)?
600
What is head loss?
600
You can buy this Che Faculty's future best seller for only 10 dollars from his office
Who is Dr. Aston?
800
This purity testing technique involves feeding a vaporized sample through a column that is commonly packed
What is gas chromatography/GC?
800
Alongside temperature and pressure, this must not be changing for thermodynamic equilibrium to be achieved
What is chemical equilibrium?
800
Your flow reactor doesn't have a good conversion if this number is low
What is Damköhler number(Da)
800
What is (CSTR) Volume?
800
Goldilocks and the three what? Ask this faculty member about his research for a refresher.
Who is Dr. Moberly?
1000
How to measure contact angle. Comes from the greek words for 'angle' and 'measure'
What is goniometry?
1000
Some might say its the tendency to escape, but frankly no one really knows
What is Fugacity?
1000
The ratio of buoyancy to viscous forces
What is Grashof Number(Gr)?
1000
Gc in imperial units (number and units)
what is 32.2(lbm ft)/(lbf s^2)?
1000
This ChE faculty has his Ph.D. in chemical engineering and nanotechnology from the University of Washington.
Who is Dr. Bernards?