Thermodynamics
A quantity with units of pressure that is the same in all phases of a system at equilibrium.
What is fugacity?
What chemical compound is found in alcoholic beverages?
What is ethanol?
This is the basic thermodynamic principle behind flash and staged distillation.
What is VLE?
what is the damkohler number?
This is the most commonly used mammalian cell line in the commercial production of recombinant proteins.
What are Chinese Hamster Ovary cells?
This law states that different gases behave similarly when compared to their condition relative to the critical point.
What is the law of corresponding states?
This was an illegal bar during prohibition?
What is a speakeasy?
This common method of achieving separation in analytical equipment is based on selective affinity to a stationary affinity to a stationary or mobile phase.
What is chromatography?
This dimensionless number is also called the mass transfer Nusselt number.
What is the Sherwood number?
An adult human has this many pairs of ribs?
What are 12?
This is given by (dT/dP)_H
What is the joule-thompson coefficient?
What is the alcohol content for an 80 proof drink?
What is 40%
This is the phenomenon where an increase in fluid velocity in a packed bed results in a constant pressure drop and an increasing bed height.
What is fluidization?
What is the Peclet number?
Pyrosis is the technical term for which common complaint?
What is heartburn?
This number of intrinsic properties need to be determine to fully specify a two-phase single component system.
What is 1?
What amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the United States.
This process utilizes materials with precisely sized pores to selectively adsorb molecules based on their size and shape.
What is molecular sieving?
This dimensionless number is the relative thickness of thermal and momentum boundary layers.
What is the prandtl number?
During exponential growth, this is defined as 1/X[dX/dt] where X is the biomass concentration and t is time.
What is the specific growth rate?
This is given by the following: P=(RT)/(V-b) +(a)(V^2)
What is the van der waal's equation of state?
What is fermented to make vodka?
What are potatoes?
The sections above and below the feed stage in a distillation are know as:
What are the rectifying and stripping sections?
The ratio between inertial and gravitational forces.
What is the Froude number?
This enzyme is used to convert glucose to fructose in High fructose corn syrup.
What is glucose isomerase?