Chemical Safety Process
This is the OSHA equivalent of the Threshold Limit Value – Ceiling (TLV-C).
What is Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH)?
The strict definition of this is “an anaerobic process used for producing products.”
What is a fermentation?
This analog to Newton’s law of viscosity relates the diffusive flux to the concentration under the assumption of steady state.
What is Fick’s Law?
This is given by the following P=(RT/V-b)+a/V^2
What is the Van der Waal’s Equation of State?
The red area on the NFPA diamond given here represents the level of this hazard.
What is fire? or What is flammability?
This cellular metabolic pathway converts glucose to pyruvate.
What is the glycolytic pathway?
This accumulation of unwanted material on solid surfaces of a heat exchanger is detrimental to its function.
What is fouling?
The temperature at which a vapor mixture begins to condense at a fixed pressure
What is the Dew Point Temperature?
This 1976 legislation regulates the introduction of new or already existing chemical in the United States.
What is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976?
These eukaryotic organelles are basically membranous bags of hydrolytic enzymes.
What are Lysosomes?
This dimensionless number, also called the mass transfer Nusselt number, represents the ratio of the convective mass transfer rate to the diffusive mass transport rate.
What is the Sherwood Number?
this is given by (dT/dP)H
What is the Joule-Thomson Coefficient?
For industrial operations where flammable vapors may be present, any charge accumulation exceeding this energy level is considered dangerous.
What is 0.1 mJ?
This type of immunity is also known as antibody-mediated immunity.
What is Humoral Immunity?
This dimensionless number is defined as the ratio of the advective transport rate of a physical quantity to the diffusive transport rate of the same quantity.
What is the Péclet number?
A cycle which consists of the following steps: adiabatic/isobaric/adiabatic/isochoric.
What is the Diesel Cycle?