Chemical Processes
This process uses heat to separate liquids by their different boiling points.
What is distillation?
In this type of reaction, two compounds “swap partners” to form new compounds.
What is a double displacement reaction?
This element makes up the majority of the air we breathe (around 78%).
What is nitrogen?
This is the name of the chemical engineering student organization.
What is AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)?
This is the SI unit for energy.
What is a Joule?
This process uses microorganisms like yeast or bacteria to break down sugars without oxygen
What is fermentation?
When one compound breaks down into two or more simpler substances, it’s this kind of reaction.
What is a decomposition reaction?
This element is found in all living things, forms diamonds and soot, and is the main ingredient in pencil “lead.”
What is Carbon?
This is the week that you will meet with your advisor.
What is week 10?
This is what Cp stands for.
What is the specific heat at constant pressure?
This process uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas
What is electrolysis?
When two or more substances combine to make one new substance, it’s this kind of reaction.
What is a synthesis (combination) reaction
This element is the lightest metal and is used in rechargeable batteries, but it can also burst into flames if exposed to air or water.
What is lithium?
This is the name of the chemical engineering building.
What is the Engineering Innovation Building?
This is the equation of state for an ideal gas.
What is PV=nRT?
This process breaks down materials using heat without oxygen.
What is pyrolysis?
When a fuel reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and heat, it’s this type of reaction.
What is a combustion reaction?
This element’s name comes from the Greek word for “sun,” and it’s used in solar panels.
What is helium?
This is the head of the Chemical Engineering Department.
Who is Vikas Berry?
This term describes a process with no heat exchange.
What is adiabatic?
This process makes fertilizer (ammonia) by combining nitrogen and hydrogen gas.
What is the Haber process?
When an acid and a base mix to make a salt and water it's this type of reaction.
What is neutralization?
This element’s symbol comes from the word “kalium,” and is a soft, silvery metal that reacts violently with water to produce lilac flames.
What is potassium?
This is the function of the ChemE Cube (the problem statement of what they are trying to solve).
What is carbon capture?
A mixture that boils at a constant temperature and composition, behaving like a single substance.
What is an azeotrope?