Chemical Reaction Engineering
Unit Operations
Chemical Process Safety
Differential Equations
Thermodynamics
100
The temperature dependence of a chemical reaction is commonly described through the use of this equation.
What is the Arrhenius equation?
100
This process equipment is used to transfer energy between process streams.
What is a heat exchanger?
100
This is defined as a chemical or physical condition that has the potential for causing damage to people, property or the environment.
What is a hazard?
100
A graphical representation of the solutions of a first-order differential equation
What is a slope field?
100
This chart contains the dry bulb temperature, the humidity ratio, the wet bulb temperature, relative humidity, saturation temperature, and the enthalpy of dry air.
What is a psychrometric chart?
200
The optimal (i.e. smallest total reactor volume) order of two ideal reactors in series to achieve 80% conversion for the kinetics denoted here.
What is a CSTR followed by a PFR?
200
This process involves vaporizing a portion of a liquid feed. The vapor contains a concentration of the more volatile component.
What is distillation?
200
This is defined as a rapid expansion of gases resulting in a rapidly moving pressure or shock wave.
What is an explosion?
200
What is Bernoulli's differential equation equal to?
What is dy/dx + P(x)y = f(x)y^n?
200
This is equal to H - TS
What is Gibbs Free Energy?
300
Enzyme kinetics described by the following equation:
-rs=Vmax(S)/Km+(S)
What are Michaelis-Menten Kinetics?
300
In this process, components of a fluid phase are transferred to the surface of a solid phase.
What is adsoprtion?
300
This type of spring-loaded relief valve is used when high backpressures are present
What is a balanced bellows?
300
What is the LaPlace transform of f(x)=sin(kx)?
What is k/(a^2+k^2)?
300
This factor is used to account for deviations from ideal behavior in a liquid mixture of chemical substances.
What is an activity coefficient?
400
This dimensionless number, given by 𝜏k for a first-order reaction, provides an estimate of the conversion in a CSTR.
What is the Damköhler number?
400
A simplified version of this unit operation is making coffee from ground beans. A component is removed from a solid by a liquid solvent.
What is leaching?
400
The deflagration index for gases and dusts is calculated by multiplying (dP/dt)max by the volume (V) raised to this power.
What is 1/3?
400
A differential of the form df=M(x,y)dx + N(x,y)dy is defined as ______, if the integral of df is path independent.
What is exact?
400
This law states that as the temperature approaches 0 K, the entropy of the system approaches a minimum value.
What is the third law of thermodynamics?
500
This modulus (as shown below) is useful in predicting reactor behavior when solid catalyst particles are used.
L*(k’’’/Deff)^1/2
What is the Thiele Modulus?
500
This process equipment uses a drum to continuously separate solids from a slurry.
What is a rotary drum filter?
500
This equipment, abbreviated ARSST, is commonly used to evaluate reactive hazards.
What is the Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool?
500
A partial differential equation of elliptic type that can describe the potential field caused by a given charge or mass density distribution; with the potential field known, one can then calculate gravitational or electrostatic field.
What is the Poisson equation?
500
This is the most common engine cycle that does not use a spark.
What is a diesel engine?