Chemical Processes
Name That Element
UIC Department
Thermodynamics
100

This process uses heat to separate liquids by their different boiling points.

What is distillation?

100

This element makes up the majority of the air we breathe.

What is nitrogen?

100

This is the name of the chemical engineering student organization.

What is AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)?

100

This is the SI unit for energy.

What is a Joule?

200

This process uses microorganisms like yeast or bacteria to break down sugars without oxygen

What is fermentation?

200

This element is found in all living things, forms diamonds and soot, and is the main ingredient in pencil “lead.”

What is Carbon?

200

This is the week that you will meet with your advisor.

What is week 10?

200

This is what Cp stands for.

What is the specific heat at constant pressure?

300

This process uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas

What is electrolysis?

300

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?

300

This is the name of the chemical engineering building.

What is the Engineering Innovation Building?

300

This is the equation of state for an ideal gas.

What is PV=nRT?

400

This process breaks down materials using heat without oxygen.

What is pyrolysis?

400

This element’s name comes from the Greek word for “sun,” and it’s used in solar panels.

What is helium?

400

This is the head of the Chemical Engineering Department.

Who is Vikas Berry?

400

This term describes a process with no heat exchange.

What is adiabatic?

500

This process makes fertilizer (ammonia) by combining nitrogen and hydrogen gas.

What is the Haber process?

500

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?

500

This is the function of the ChemE Cube (the problem statement of what they are trying to solve).

What is carbon capture?

500

The temperature and pressure where liquid and gas phases are indistinguishable.

What is the critical point?