Chemical Reaction Engineering
Radioactive decay is the order of this reaction.
What is First Order?
Cp – Cv equals this for an ideal gas.
What is R (the gas constant)?
What is 25-50 million people? (in Europe, but numbers could be as high as 200 million. )
This is the ratio of the moles of CO2 produced to moles of O2 utilized.
What is the respiratory quotient (RQ)?
This dimensionless parameter is given by h(V/A)/k
What is the Biot Number?
This parameter is equal to (# of days plant operates per year/365)
What is the Stream Factor (SF)?
A variable that is independent of the path between two states.
What is a state variable?
These are the four development stages of Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons.
What are Tropical Disturbances, Tropical Depressions, Tropical Storms, Hurricanes/Cyclones/Typhoons?.
This was the first commercially produced recombinant protein product.
What is insulin?
The ratio of thermal diffusivity and mass diffusivity is designated by this dimensionless number.
What is the Lewis number?
This is the probability distribution function that describes the ages a fluid element spends in the exit stream.
What is the residence time distribution?
The third law of thermodynamics specifies this property as zero for perfect crystalline substances at absolute zero temperature
What is entropy?
This many people have died in space.
What is 20 people? (14 astronauts lost in the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters, three astronauts in the Apollo 1 fire during training, and three cosmonauts who died in the Soyuz 11 mission due to a depressurization event.)
This occurs in a chemostat when the dilution rate (D) exceeds the maximum specific growth rate (µm).
What is washout?
The electrical device that transfer electrical energy between two or more circuits through electromagnetic induction.
What is a transformer?
The Ergun equation is used to calculate this in a packed bed reactor.
What is pressure drop?
The minimum ignition energy of hydrogen in air.
What is 0.018mJ?
This is the biggest earthquake ever recorded.
What is the Valdivia earthquake in Chile on May 22, 1960? (It registered a magnitude of 9.5.)
N-linked glycans are linked to this amino acid in naturally occurring glycoproteins.
What is asparagine?
This is the study of a body’s motion independent of the forces acting on the body.
What is Kinematics?
What is poisoned? (poisoning, catalytic poisoning)
A cycle which consists of the following steps: Adiabatic/isochoric/adiabatic/ isochoric.
What is the Otto cycle?
This percentage of the world coral reefs have been lost in the last decade.
This commonly used technique utilizes electrophoresis and antibodies to detect and analyze proteins.
What is a western blot?
This is given by (dT/dP)_H
What is the Joule-Thomson Coefficient?