Unit Operations
A mixture of two liquids or a liquid and vapor can be separated by passing it to a ______ ____ at a fixed temperature and pressure.
What is a flash drum?
Any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water ruptures one or more chemical bonds
What is hydrolysis?
Thermal conductivity of a conducting solid material depends upon these two factors.
What are temperature and porosity?
An expression of the form F(x, y)dx+G(x, y)dy
What is first order differential form?
The effect in which a difference in the elapsed time measured by two clocks occurs, either due to them having a velocity relative to each other, or by there being a gravitational potential difference between their locations.
What is the Urashima effect? (time dilation)
An essential item used in distillation of liquid mixtures so as to separate the mixture into its component parts, or fractions, based on the differences in volatilities
What is a Fractionating column?
A reaction in which the oxidiation states of atoms are changed. Used in industry for the production of cleaning products.
What is oxidation (redox)?
The equivalent diameter for pressure drop is __________ that for heat transfer..
What is smaller than?
An expansion of a periodic function in terms of an infinite sum of sines and cosines.
What is a Fourier series?
A pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles
What is a Feynman diagram?
The purification of substances by taking advantage of changes in solubility with respect to temperature
What is Recrystallization?
The transfer of an alkyl group from one molecule to another. Used in the refinement of crude oil.
What is alkylation?
Air is best heated with steam in a heat exchanger of this certain pipe type.
What is double pipe type with fin on air side?
A transform equal to ∫f(t)e^(-st)dt (integrated from 0 to infinity)
What is a LaPlace transform?
A process in which the exact state of an atom or photon can be transmitted exactly from one location to another with the help of classical communication and previously shared quantum entanglement between the sending and receiving locations.
What is quantum teleportation?
In essence, a CSTR which has been filled with catalyst.
What is a fluidized bed reactor? (FBs)
A process that produces aldehydes from alkenes.
What is Hydroformylation? (oxo process)
A grey body's adsorptivity is the ratio of these energies.
What is the amount of energy absorbed by the body to the amount of energy absorbed by a black body at the same temperature?
States that y=x * f(dy/dx)+g(dy/dx)
What is d'Alembert's Equation? (also Lagrange's equation)
Truncations of the Taylor series for the basic trigonometric functions to a second-order approximation.
What are the small-angle approximations?
The two ways a tubular heat exchanger can be set up.
What are co-current and counter-current?
Part of the process to produce nylon; a process that produces Hydroxylamine
What is the Raschig process?
Crystal size in a continuous crystalliser depends upon these three factors.
What are rate of heat transfer, degree of turbulence, and degree of supersaturation?
The equation of motion for damped simple harmonic motion
What is x^.. + βx^. + ω^2 * x =0
This replaces the classical notion of a single, unique classical trajectory for a system with a sum over an infinite amount of quantum-mechanically possible trajectories to compute a quantum amplitude.
What is a path integral formulation?