Thermodynamics
A cycle which consists of the following steps: adiabatic/isobaric/adiabatic/isochoric.
What is the Diesel Cycle?
Nickel-chromium alloys are known by this name, which is a trademark of the International Nickel Corporation.
What is Inconel?
This is the basic thermodynamic principle behind flash and staged distillation.
This is the basic thermodynamic principle behind flash and staged distillation.
This is the most commonly used mammalian cell line in the commercial production of recombinant proteins.
What are Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells?
This dimensionless number is used to determine the relative thickness of thermal and momentum boundary layers.
What is the Prandtl (Pr) number?
The molecules of an ideal gas are assumed to have no volume or ______.
What are intermolecular interactions?
The Laplace transform of the function e^-at
What is 1/(s+a)?
The sections above and below the feed stage in a distillation column as known as these.
What are the Rectifying and Stripping sections?
This dimensionless number is used to determine the required power in a mixing operation involving Newtonian fluids.
What is the Power Number?
This dimensionless number is the ratio between inertial and gravitational forces, and is used to determine the resistance of an object moving through a fluid.
What is the Froude (Fr) number?
Describes the partial pressure of each component in an ideal mixture. (P_A) = (X_a)(P*_A)
What is Raoult's Law?
These are the roots of the polynomial in the denominator of the closed-loop transfer function.
What are the poles?
This common method of achieving separation in analytical equipment is based on selective affinity to a stationary or mobile phase.
What is Chromatography?
This device is commonly used to count mammalian cells
What is a hemocytometer?
What dimensionless number represents the ratio of buoyant to viscous forces specifically for natural convection.
What is the Rayleigh number?
This number of intrinsic properties needed to be determined to fully specify a two-phase single component system.
What is 1?
This differential operator is given by the divergence of the gradient of a function on Euclidean space.
What is the Laplacian?
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?
These two molecules containing high reducing power are produced during the TCA cycle.
What are NADH
and FADH2?
Dimensionless number denoted by the following. (h)/(rhoC_pV) = (Nu)/(Re*Pr)
What is the Stanton number?
This is given by (dT/dP)_H
What is the Joule-Thomson Coefficient?
The maximum positive and negative change in the signal to the final control element that does not produce a measurable change to the flow rate in question.
What is valve deadband?
This is a process that utilizes materials with precisely sized pores to selectively adsorb molecules based on their size and shape.
What is molecular sieving?
Model used to describe the effect of substrate concentration on the specific growth rate.
What is the Monod equation?
What dimensionless number represents the ratio of thermal to mass diffusivity.
What is the Lewis number?