Process design
[Final Jeopardy]
A term describing absorption that occurs when there is a signficant increase in the temperature of a liquid due to the heat released as a gas dissolves.
Final Jeopardy: What is non-isothermal [or adiabatic ] absorption?
La pregunta og era: What is the time-value of money?
Ea in the Arrhenius equation k= A exp(-Ea/RT)
What is the activation energy?
A portion of the condensate that is returned to the column to enrich the rising vapor with the most volatile component.
What is reflux?
For a molecule to be considered organic, it must contain this element.
What is carbon?
This Marvel superhero, whos alter ego is Peter Parker, gained his incredible powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider.
Who is Spiderman?
This visual economic tool uses a horizontal timeline and vertical arrows pointing up or down to track the magnitude and direction of a chemical plant's expenditures and revenues over time.
What is a Cash Flow diagram?
This plot is the FA0/-rA vs X
What is the Levenspiel plot?
The reverse process of absorption, in which a solute moves from the liquid phase to the gas phase, generally to recover the solute or regenerate solvent.
What is stripping / desorption / depletion?
A substance that can donate electrons to another substance.
What is a reducing agent?
This iconic black armor star wars villan tells Luke Skywalker that he is his father
Who is Darth Vader?
This operational metric is defined as the actual number of days a chemical plant operates in a year divided by 365, representing the plant's online reliability and availability.
What is the Stream Factor (SF)?
The probability distribution function describing the time a fluid element spends in a reactor
What is the residence time distribution?
Removal of water vapor from a gaseous mixture by cooling it below the dew point or by contact with a cold liquid.
What is dehumidification?
This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas mantained at constant pressure is directly proportional to the absolute temperature of the gas.
What is Charles's law?
This magical british boarding school is the setting for the "Boy who lived"
What is Hogwarts?
This transition metal is added to low-alloy steels to increase the strength of steels at high temperatures
What is molybdenum?
The Damkholer number is the ratio of reaction rate to this.
What is the mass transfer rate? (convective or diffusive)
A unit operation that separates solutes from a liquid solution through contact with another inmiscible or partially miscible solvent.
What is liquid-liquid extraction?
Properties of solutions that depend on the number of solute particles in solution and not on the nature of the solute properties.
What are colligative properties?
This young animated protagonist from Pallet Town traveled the world trying to catch them all alongside his partner Pikachu.
Who is Ash Ketchum?
This depreciation system is commonly denoted by its acronym MACRS
What is the Modified Accelerated Cost of Recovery System?
Substance introduced into a reaction system to cause chain.
What is an initiatior? (photoinitiator lol)
A process in which a sweeper is added to form a minimum-boiling point azeotrope with one or more components?
What is azeotropic distillation?
What is a Faraday?
This 1998 Nintendo 64 action adventure game is widely considered on of the greatest of all time and introduced the revolutionary Z-targeting mechanic.
What is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time?