Dimensionless Numbers
Thermodynamics
Chemical Process Safety
Johnny
Heat Transport
100

This dimensionless number, also called the mass transfer Nusselt number, represents the ratio of the convective mass transfer rate to the diffusive mass transport rate.

What is the Sherwood number?

100

The transfer of energy from one object to a cooler object.

What is heat?

100

Issue statements or present information only in an ______ and _______ manner.

What are objective and truthful?

100

What was Johnny's role on ChemE Cube last year?

Business Lead (kind of)

100

This type of heat transfer involves higher energy molecules transferring energy to lower energy molecules.

What is conduction?

200

This dimensionless number is the ratio of convective to conductive heat transfer.

What is the Nusselt number?

200

The minimum ignition energy of hydrogen in air.

What is 0.018mJ?

200

This is the independent federal agency created under the Clean Air Amendments of 1990 is charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents.

What is the CSB? (Chemical Safety Board or U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board)?

200

What is my brother's name? (Hint: It rhymes with Johnny)

What is Tommy?

200

This parameter is defined as the rate of heat transfer through a unit thickness of material per unit area per temperature difference.

What is thermal conductivity?

300

This dimensionless number is the ratio of the reaction rate of A to the convective transport rate of A.

With is the Damkohler number?

300

The number of intrinsic properties needed to be determine to fully specify a two-phase single component system.

What is 1?

300

This type of overpressure hazard occurs when a pressurized liquid vessel is raised above its normal boiling point.

What is a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion)?

300

What strange food did I once eat in Italy (it's my AIChE fun fact)

Horse Diaphragm
300

This dimensionless number is the product of the Grashof number and Prandtl number.

What is the Rayleigh number?

400

This dimensionless number represents the ratio of buoyant to viscous forces and is commonly used in calculations regarding natural convection.

What is the Grashof number?

400

The point where the liquid phase and the vapor phase have identical properties.

What is the critical point?

400

The electrical classification for a process using flammable vapors under normal operation.

What is Class I Division I

400

Approximately how many linkedin connections does Johnny have?

What is ~300?

400

This law describes the power radiated from a black body in terms of its temperature.

What is the Stefan-Boltzmann Law?

500

This dimensionless number is used to determine the relative thickness of thermal and momentum boundary layers.

What is the Prandtl number?

500

The ratio of actual efficiency to ideal efficiency on a plate.

What is Murphree efficiency?

500

From the Greek word meaning "fire-bearing," this is the term for a compound that can ignite spontaneously in air.

What is pyrophoric?

500

How do you spell my last name?

What is  G u e r i g u i a n?

500

In most heat transfer coefficient (h) correlations for turbulent flow in pipes, h is proportional to the Reynolds number raised to this power.

What is 0.8?

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