All things Chemaculty
Fundamentals and Math
Transport and Thermodynamics
Process Operations and Design
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100

What is the first name of Professor Gerry Fuller’s wife?

Who is Mary?
100

Give the dimensions of force.

What is MLT-2?

100

This law describes how molecules move from high to low concentration areas.

Fick’s Law of diffusion

100

The fertilizer industry produces ammonia using this process.

What is the Haber Bosch Process?

100

Which fruit has the nickname as “king of fruits” known for its distinct smell and flavor?

What is a durian?

200

This professor is well known for his work on turning human waste into fertilizer.

Who is Professor Tarpeh?

200

This assumption allows us to designate accumulation to be 0.

What is steady state?

200

What does the Reynolds number signify?

What is the inertial/viscous forces of fluids?

200

The liver is an example of this type of reactor.

What is a CSTR?

200

This mammal is the only one in the world that can’t jump.

What is an elephant?

300

Professor Zhenan Bao recently gained fame for developing an "electronic" version of this human organ, sensitive enough to feel a butterfly.

What is skin?

300

This quantity is calculated by capacity of system/rate of inflow/outflow.

What is residence time?

300

This law states that the rate of heat transfer through a material is proportional to the negative gradient of the temperature and to the area through which the heat flows.

What is Fourier’s Law of Heat Conduction?

300

Known by the acronym 'HAZOP,' this systematic examination of a process design is used to identify potential safety risks before the plant is ever built.

What is a Hazard and Operability Study?

300

Located in the Peloponnese, this Greek town is the namesake of a famous purple-hued, meaty fruit.

What is Kalamata?

400

What are the first names of the donors of Shriram?

Who are Kavitark "Ram" and Vijay?

400

Name one difference between the langmuir and freundlich model.

LANGMUIR: Fixed number of sites, sites have equal affinities for adsorbate, there exists a maximum q. 

FREUNDLICH: infinite number of sites, varying affinities, there is no maximum q

400

In thermodynamics, this state function represents the "maximum useful work" that can be extracted from a system at constant temperature and pressure.

What is Gibb's Free Energy?

400

This piece of equipment uses counter-current flow to increase the efficiency of separating components based on volatility.

What is a distillation column?

400

What is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. State name?

What is Q?

500

Doctor Katarina Guzman was lead author (with Khosla as a co-author) for what type of tool to study assembly-line polyketide synthases?

What are fragment antigen binding domains (Fabs)?

500

This phenomenon describes the adhesion of atoms, ions, or molecules from a gas, liquid, or dissolved solid onto the surface of a solid or liquid, forming a thin film.

What is adsorption?

500

This type of heat exchanger has two hotter streams entering from the same side.

What is co-current / parallel flow?

500

This point on a phase diagram represents the specific temperature and pressure where the liquid and vapor phases of a pure substance become indistinguishable.

What is the critical point?

500

What is the fear of long words called? (The irony is real)

What is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?