Chemical Reaction Engineering
The Damköhler number (Da) is the ratio of reaction rate to this.
Da = (reaction rate/?)
What is the mass transfer rate? (convective or diffusive)
A process in which volume is held constant.
What is Isochoric?
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What is BASF?
A rise in this measurement of average molecular velocity often results in a rise in solubility.
What is the temperature?
This thermodynamic quantity that is related to chemical potential and activity has units of pressure.
What is fugacity?
Ea in the Arrhenius equation.
A exp(−Ea/RT)
What is the activation energy?
An enthalpy-entropy diagram is commonly called this in recognition of its creator.
What is a Mollier diagram?
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What is Dow?
A solvent will dissolve no more solute once the solution has reached this point.
What is saturation?
The laboratory handling of volatile compounds should be done inside one of these ventilation devices.
What is a fume hood?
Order of the reaction that results in the following solution of the rate equation.
1/CA − 1/CAo = kt
What is second order?
Equation of state given by
P = RT/(V - b) - a/(V^2 + 2bV - b^2)
What is the Peng-Robinson Equation of State?
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What is Sinopec?
This law is used to quantify the solubility of gases in solvents.
What is Henry’s Law?
Yeast and mushrooms are inhabitants of this kingdom of eukaryotes.
What are fungi?
The probability distribution function describing the time a fluid element spends in a reactor.
What is the residence time distribution?
A cycle which consists of the following steps: isothermal/isochoric/isothermal/isochoric.
What is the Stirling cycle?
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What is LG Chem?
This rule that rhymes with earring states that a linear relationship exists between the temperatures at which two solutions exert the same vapor pressure.
What is Dühring's rule?
This aromatic five-membered ring has the molecular formula C4H4O.
What is furan?
Methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MCMT) produced during the 2007 T2 Laboratories explosion in Jacksonville, Florida is used as an additive to this widely used material.
What is gasoline?
Parameter given by 1/V (∂V/∂P)|T
What is the (isothermal) compressibility (κ)?
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What is Linde?
This parameter provides a numerical estimate of the degree of interaction between molecules and can be a good indication of solubility, particularly for many polymers.
What is the Hildebrand Solubility Parameter?
A buckyball is a spherical one of these hollow carbon molecules.
What is a fullerene?