Chemical Engineering Accidents
The February 3, 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio resulted in the release of this hazardous chemical.
What is Vinyl Chloride?
This principle states that the weight of the fluid displaced by an object is equal to the buoyant force.
What is Archimedes Principle?
Assumption made when the Biot Number is less than 0.1.
What is the lumped solution assumption? (Uniform temperature throughout body during transient heat transfer).
The Current AICHE president
Who is Anne O'Neil?
She wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Who was Harper Lee?
Location (city and state/country) of an accident described as “an ammonium nitrate explosion that occurred at a storage facility in April 2013.”
Where is West, Texas?
This type of fluid flow, also known as creeping flow or creeping motion, where inertial forces are small compared to viscous forces, bears the same name as the CGS unit of kinematic viscosity.
What is Stokes flow?
A physical constant used in radiation heat transfer calculations, with dimensions of power per area per temperature raised to the 4th power.
What is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant?
Location (city and state) of the 2026 annual national conference.
Where is Minneapolis, Minnesota?
He wrote “The Little Mermaid.”
Who was Hans Christian Andersen?
The company at which an accident described as “a refinery fire in Richmond, California in August 2013 triggered by a leaking old pipe” occurred.
What is Chevron?
This layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a surface has significant viscosity effects.
What is the boundary layer?
In most heat transfer coefficient (h) correlations for turbulent flow in pipes, h is proportional to the Reynolds number raised to this power.
What is 0.8?
2025 President of AICHE
Who is Joseph D. Smith?
Name of Washington Irving’s 1819 short story about a man that fell asleep in the woods for 20 years.
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
Location (city and state/country) of an accident described as “a huge explosion at a sugar refinery in February 2008 that resulted in 14 deaths.”
Where is Port Wentworth, Georgia?
The Fanning friction factor is usually a function of these two dimensionless parameters.
What are the Reynolds number and the relative roughness?
This is the boundary condition at a perfectly insulated surface.
What is dT/dx = 0?
The city and year of the first AIChE Annual Conference.
What are Philadelphia and 1908?
Sherlock Holmes played this instrument.
What is the violin?
Release and ignition of this chemical was involved in the June 1974 Flixborough, England disaster.
What is Cyclohexane?
These additional restraints provide closure to differential equations describing a finite domain.
What are boundary conditions?
This dimensionless parameter is the ratio of the heat conduction rate to the rate of thermal energy storage.
What is the Fourier Modulus?
This AIChE organization, denoted by the acronym DIERS, was formed in 1976 as a consortium of 29 companies.
What is the Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems?
This book is the best-selling individual non-religious book ever published.
What is "A Tale of Two Cites?"