Process Safety
The blue section on the NFPA diamond
What is health hazard?
This dimensionless number, named after a French engineer, characterizes flow regimes and determines whether the flow is laminar or turbulent.
What is Reynold's number?
The most common form of separation in industry
What is distillation?
The animal that Britney Spears carried around her neck during her 2001 VMAs performance
What is a snake?
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This type of safety device is designed to release pressure from a vessel to prevent overpressure.
What is a pressure relief valve?
This equation, named after a Swiss scientist, relates the pressure, velocity, and height of an incompressible fluid.
What is Bernoulli's Equation?
This ideal reactor is not well mixed.
What is a PFR?
This artist made over one billion dollars in her tour titled 'Eras'
Who is Taylor Swift?
The first division formed within AIChE
What is Nuclear Engineering Division?
This analysis method is used to identify potential hazards and operability problems in chemical processes.
What is HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Study)?
The resistance of a fluid to flow; a measure of the thickness of a liquid.
What is viscosity?
This type of reactor contains a solid catalyst and is frequently used in industry for its high conversion rate per catalyst weight.
What is a packed bed reactor
What modern-day item made a cameo in the final season of Game of Thrones
What is a Starbucks cup (coffee cup)?
Who is Joseph Smith?
This principle involves designing processes to minimize the use and production of hazardous substances.
What is Inherently Safer Design?
This device is used to measure the pressure of a fluid or gas, typically relative to atmospheric pressure
What is a manometer?
In this process, components of a fluid phase are transferred to the surface of a solid phase
What is adsorption?
This singer renamed herself "Sasha Fierce" for a 2008 double album.
Who is Beyonce?
AIChE formed the center for chemical process safety in this year.
What is 1985?
The four major methods for achieving Inherently Safer Design.
What are minimize, substitute, moderate, and simplify?
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
A diverse group of air pollution control devices that can be used to remove some particulates and/or gases from industrial exhaust streams.
What is a scrubber?
Who is Lauryn Hill?
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