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General Sciences and Math
Chemical Engineering 101
UMaine Professors
Heat and Mass Transfer
Separation Processes
100

This is the third derivative of the position function of an object, or the rate of change of acceleration.

What is jerk?


100

This is the process by which ammonia is synthesized.

What is the Haber-Bosch process?

100
Professor that is married to a Professor in the chemistry department.

Who is Prof. Walton?


100
These are the three major mods of heat transfer.
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
100

The name of the stream that comes out of the top of a distillation column.

What is the distillate?

200

This is a representation of a function as an infinite sum of terms that are calculated from the values of the function's derivatives at a single point.

What is a Taylor Series?

200
This is the SI unit for amount of substance.
What is the mole?
200

This professor teaches cycling class.

Who is Prof. Hwalek?

200
These common devices are often used to recover waste heat from industrial processes.
What are heat exchangers?
200

The ratio of liquid returned to the column vs. distillate removed from the top of the column

What is reflux ratio?

300

This quantity is equal to the dot product of force and displacement.

What is work?

300
These are three conserved quantities.
What is mass, energy, momentum, charge?
300
Professor that earned more money as a grocery store manager than as an engineer.

Who is Prof. Wheeler?

300
This is the name of the equation that is used to model the rate of mass diffusion.
What is Fick's Law?
300

Equation for slope of the q line.

What is: 1. (1-psi)/psi 2. (1-(V/F))/(V/F) 3. L/V

400

This property is defined as gram moles of solute divided by kilograms of solvent.

What is molality?

400

This equation is the fundamental equation of chemical engineering.

What is acc = in-out+generation-consumption?

400

Prof. that loves old cars?

Who is Prof. Neivandt?

400
This dimensionless number represents the dimensionless temperature gradient at the surface.
What is the Nusselt Number?
400

This separation technique utilizes adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules of gas, liquid, or dissolved solids to a surface.

What is adsorption?

500

He is generally acknowledged as the “father” of the modern periodic table.

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?

500

This is the process by which ammonia is synthesized and Dr. Bond's favorite chemical process.

What is the Haber-Bosch process?

500

The faculty liaison to UMaine Men's Basketball Team?

Who is Prof. Desisto?

500

The name for the constant of proportionality for radiative heat transfer.

What is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant?

500

This is a measure comparing the vapor pressures of the components in a liquid mixture of chemicals. It is usually denoted as the variable alpha.

What is relative volatility?