This highly combustible powder can be made from a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium.
What is thermite?
100
This commonly used pressure instrument measures in mm Hg or in H2O.
What is a manometer?
100
UC Alumnus Michael Graves designed this building to resemble a 4-cylinder engine.
What is Engineering Research Center (ERC)?
100
This type of reboiler only vaporizes part of the liquid in the column base and provides an extra ideal stage.
What is a partial reboiler?
100
This professor received their PhD from Princeton. His/her research includes platinum catalysts and restriction of water accumulation in hydrogen fuel cells. This professor also worked for IBM.
Who is Dr. Angelopoulos?
200
Mixing these common household ingredients results in the production of hydrochloric gas.
What is bleach and ammonia?
200
In this heat exchanger setup, the fluids travel roughly perpendicular to one another through the exchanger.
What is counter-current/counter-flow?
200
This UC football fullback of the 1914 season helped create the name of UC's current mascot.
Who is Teddy Baehr?
200
S=(mG)/L
What is the Stripping Factor?
200
This professor's undergraduate and graduate research on digital integration of organic chemistry formulations brought him/her to the United States. He/she has strong experience with the science and business of chemical production industry.
Who is Dr. Govind?
300
This drug is enantiomeric. One enantiomer is a psychostimulant. The other is a common cold medicine.
What is methamphetamine?
300
The purpose of this type of process stream is to enable essentially all of the feed material to be converted to products by a reactor which can achieve less than 100% conversion by recombining with the feed at an earlier point.
What is recycle stream?
300
This parent of the College of Applied Science was founded in 1828 as a private educational institution and the first school west of the Alleghenies dedicated to technical education.
What is The Ohio Mechanics Institute (OMI)?
300
This equation is used for determining the actual number of stages required for a given separation.
What is the Murphree efficiency?
300
This professor spent a great deal of time in industry before coming to academia. He/she continues to advise to the chemical process industry. His/her name is also oddly similar to one of the names in a graphical method for analyzing vapor-liquid equilibrium of binary distillations.
Who is Dr. Thiel?
400
Morphine is treated with this organic compound to create heroin.
What is acetic anhydride?
400
Derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship, this equation describes the relation between vapor pressure and temperature for pure components.
What is the Antoine equation?
400
In 1858, when this man died of pneumonia, he allocated $1 million to the City of Cincinnati to found a university.
Who is Charles McMicken?
400
These two MIT graduate students developed a graphical technique for describing binary distillation now taught in almost every distillation course.
Who is McCabe and Thiele?
400
This professor's research includes sorbent development for vapor-phase mercury emissions control for coal fired power plants, as well as carbon capture and sequestration from flue gas. He/she also received his/her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
Who is Dr. Lee?
500
This is used to create crack or “free base” cocaine from standard cocaine.
What is sodium bicarbonate?
500
When a part of a process stream is fed forward into a later stage of the process, the stream is said to be this.
What is bypassed/bypass stream?
500
“Five more yards to go – then drop.” Jimmy Nippert was the grandson of this co-founder of a highly successful consumer goods company synonymous with Cincinnati.
Who is James Gamble?
500
Use a form of this equation to define the removal of a component B in a liquid feed by stripping with air in which there is no component B in the incoming air.
What is the Kremser Equation?
500
This professor was recognized by the United States Army in 2000 for his/her research in photocatalytic breakdown of residual chemical warfare agents. His/her research has also included the breakdown of NOx into nitrogen gas from coal burning.