Chemical Engineering
Acronyms
Words From Elements
Thermodynamics
Begins With 'F'
100
A system in which the conditions (temperature, pressure, etc.) remain constant with time.
What is steady state?
100
AIChE
What is the American Institute of Chemical Engineers?
100
This country is known for Celtic music, potatoes, and St. Patrick's Day. (Iodine Rhenium Lanthanum Neodymium)
What is IReLaNd?
100
An adiabatic process is a process is which none of this is lost.
What is heat?
100
The splitting of an atom.
What is fission?
200
In this type of process, no material enters or leaves during operation.
What is batch?
200
CSTR
What is a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor?
200
When keeping score in baseball, the number two represents this position. (Calcium Technetium Hydrogen Erblum)
What is CaTcHEr?
200
This states that the state of entropy of the entire universe, as a closed isolated system, will always increase over time.
What is Newton's Second Law of Thermodynamics?
200
The merging together of nuclei.
What is fusion?
300
This separation method is based on differences in volatility.
What is distillation?
300
THF
What is tetrahydrofuran?
300
This musical artist's album, The Fame, won the Grammy for best electronic/dance album in 2010. (Lanthanum Dysprosium Gallium Gallium)
Who is LaDy GaGa?
300
This temperature value is identical in both the Celsius and Fahrenheit systems.
What is -40?
300
This element, number 87, is the most unstable of the naturally occurring elements.
What is Francium?
400
These conditions are the basis of IUPAC standard conditions (also known as STP).
What is 1 bar and 0 degrees Celcius?
400
OSHA
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
400
Amethyst is this month's birth stone. (Iron Boron Ruthenium Argon Yttrium)
What is February?
400
The change is Gibbs Free Energy must be this for a reaction to be spontaneous.
What is negative?
400
The number of wave crests which pass a given point in one second.
What is frequency?
500
This Chemical Engineer, important to the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, received his PhD at the University of Michigan and is credited with more than 150 US patents and 350 papers which included topics such as theory and practice of distillation.
Who is Donald Othmer?
500
IUPAC
What is the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry?
500
The first name of the current Secretary of Defense. (Carbon Hydrogen Uranium Carbon Potassium)
What is CHUCK?
500
This process follows these steps. 1. Isothermal expansion 2. Isentropic expansion 3. Isothermal compression (reversible) 4. Isentropic compression
What is the Carnot Cycle?
500
This halogen, when combined with Uranium, makes a volatile compound used as fuel in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
What is Fluorine?
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