Chemical Process Safety
This specific type of explosion occurs when a vessel containing a pressurized liquid above its boiling point catastrophically ruptures.
What is a BLEVE?
Mayonnaise and quicksand are industrial examples commonly modeled as this type of fluid, which exhibits a yield stress threshold before beginning to flow.
What is a Bingham plastic?
This specific term describes a catalyst that has lost its chemical activity due to the permanent chemical bonding of a foreign substance to its active sites.
What is a poisoned catalyst?
This type of capital represents the funds needed to pay for raw materials, initial operating supplies, and salaries during the startup phase before a plant begins generating sales revenue.
What is working capital?
This legendary green, backward-talking Jedi Master trained Luke Skywalker on the swamp planet of Dagobah.
Who is Yoda?
This type of combustion wave propagates through a flammable mixture at a velocity greater than the local speed of sound.
What is a detonation?
This pump metric represents the absolute measure of how close the liquid at a given suction point is to flashing into vapor.
What is available Net Positive Suction Head?
This dimensionless number relates the chemical reaction rate to the molecular mass transport rate within a system.
What is the Damkohler number?
This financial parameter is defined as the direct ratio between a plant's gross annual sales value and its fixed-capital investment.
What is the turnover ratio?
Released in 2008 and starring Robert Downey Jr., this blockbuster film officially launched the modern Marvel Cinematic Universe.
What is Iron Man?
These are the three essential components required to form a classic fire triangle.
What are fuel, oxidizer, and ignition source?
This limiting gas flow condition occurs in a pipe when the mass flow rate reaches a maximum and will not increase further despite lowering downstream pressure.
What is choked flow?
For a liquid-phase reaction with this specific reaction order, the required volume of a plug flow reactor is mathematically identical to the volume of a continuous stirred-tank reactor.
What is a zeroth-order reaction?
This specific federal or regional tax is levied by governments directly on the profits realized from selling physical plant capital assets.
What is capital gains tax?
In the animated classic The Little Mermaid, this Jamaican-accented crab serves as King Triton's advisor and sings the song Under the Sea.
Who is Sebastian?
Minimize, substitute, moderate, and simplify represent the four major strategies for achieving this type of design philosophy.
What is inherently safer design?
In fully turbulent flow regimes through rough pipes, this specific dimensionless resistance variable becomes completely independent of the Reynolds number.
What is the Fanning friction factor?
This specific reactor operating strategy involves loading initial reactants at the start, continuously adding more feed as time progresses, and emptying the tank only after completion.
What is a fed-batch reactor?
Due to its structural strength and low purchase cost, this material is selected for construction more than any other option in the chemical process industries.
What is carbon steel?
The long-running, iconic animated sitcom featuring Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie takes place in this fictional US city.
What is Springfield?
This hazardous event occurs when a large quantity of flammable vapor is released into the atmosphere, mixes with air, and is subsequently ignited in an unconfined space.
What is a vapor cloud explosion?
In a simple gravity-fed system with open tanks and no pump, the work term and the pressure change term can both be set to this value in the mechanical energy balance.
What is zero?
This double-reciprocal plot of 1/v versus 1/[S] is commonly used in biochemical engineering to determine enzyme kinetic parameters.
What is a Lineweaver-Burk plot?
Nonmanufacturing fixed-capital investments, such as engineering fees, contingency allocations, and legal costs, are collectively designated by this economic term
What are indirect costs?
This 1819 short story by Washington Irving tells the famous tale of a colonial man who falls asleep in the woods and wakes up twenty years later.
What is Rip Van Winkle?