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AIChE Trivia
Unit Operations
Thermo
Odds and Ends
100
Mass cannot be created nor destroyed
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
100
AIChE was founded in this year.
What is 1908?
100
This separation process is based on different boiling points.
What is distillation?
100
A process in which volume is held constant.
What is Isochoric?
100
This thermodynamic quantity that is related to chemical potential and activity has units of pressure.
What is fugacity?
200
PV=nRT
What is Ideal Gas Law?
200
AIChE’s headquarters is located in this city.
What is New York City?
200
This unit operation removes solid particles from a gas stream.
What is filtration?
200
An enthalpy-entropy diagram is commonly called this in recognition of its creator.
What is a Mollier diagram?
200
The laboratory handling of volatile compounds should be done inside one of these ventilation devices.
What is a fume hood?
300
What is Daltons Law?
300
This AIChE annual competition challenges students to build a small-scale car powered by chemical reactions.
What is the Chem-E-Car competition?
300
This rotating device converts fluid energy into mechanical work.
What is a turbine?
300
Equation of state given by
What is the Peng-Robinson Equation of State?
300
This German company is the world’s largest chemical producer with $74.5 billion in 2023 chemical sales
What is BASF?
400
N'a=-D(dCa/dy)
What is Fick's Law?
400
The AIChE Student Conference is held during this major event.
What is the AIChE Annual Meeting?
400
This device is used to convert vapor into liquid by removing heat.
What is a condenser?
400
A cycle which consists of the following steps: isothermal/isochoric/isothermal/isochoric.
What is the Stirling cycle?
400
This aromatic five-membered ring has the molecular formula C4H4O.
What is furan?
500
What is Ergun's equation?
500
AIChE recognizes outstanding professional contributions with this prestigious award.
What is the Founders Award?
500
This process transfers a component from a gas phase into a liquid phase, often using a column.
What is absorption?
500
The Clapeyron equation relates these two phase equilibrium properties.
A: What are pressure and temperature?
500
A buckyball is a spherical one of these hollow carbon molecules.
What is a fullerene?