Separations
Method used to separate solids from fluids by interposing a medium through which only the fluid can pass.
What is filtration?
This is defined as the lowest temperature at which a liquid gives off enough vapor to form an ignitable mixture with air.
What is the flash point?
This law is an expression of the fact that the enthalpy of a chemical process is independent of the path taken.
What is Hess’s law?
The idea that money available at the present time is worth more than the same amount in the future.
What is the time value of money?
The United States purchased Alaska from this country.
What is Russia?
This is used to separate components from a rising gas with the use of a falling liquid to trap the gas.
What is absorption? Or What is a scrubber?
This is defined as a rapid expansion of gases resulting in a rapidly moving pressure or shock wave.
What is an explosion?
This third law of thermodynamics specifies this property as zero for perfect crystalline substances at absolute zero temperature.
What is entropy?
This happens when vapor enters the suction of a pump.
What is cavitation?
This leader came to power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution.
Who was Fidel Castro?
This equipment uses centrifugal force to separate solids from a gas stream.
What is a cyclone?
The overpressure from explosions is commonly estimated by using an equivalent mass of this substance.
What is TNT?
Name of this equation: ln(Psat) = A – B/(T+C)
What is Antoine’s Equation?
This is the typical temperature approach used in the design of shell and tube heat exchangers.
What is 10ºF?
He was the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
In liquid extraction the two phases are commonly called the extract phase and the _______.
What is the raffinate phase?
This is the most common type of electrostatic discharge in industry.
What is a spark discharge?
Temperature at which a vapor mixture begins to condense at a fixed pressure.
What is the dew point temperature?
This transition metal is added to low-alloy steels to increase the strength of the steel at high temperatures.
What is molybdenum?
This country was ruled by Pol Pot until he was overthrown by the Vietnamese army in 1979.
What is Cambodia?
This plot, used in chromatography, shows the effect of velocity on plate height.
What is the van Deemter Plot?
This equipment, abbreviated ARSST, is commonly used to evaluate the reactive hazards.
What is the Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool?
Condition when a boiling liquid mixture produces a vapor of the same composition as it evaporates.
What is an azeotrope?
Nickel-copper alloys are known by this name, which is a trademark of the International Nickel Corporation.
What is Monel?
The Titanic sank this year.
What is 1912?