Heat Transfer
This parameter is defined as the rate of heat transfer through a unit thickness of material per unit area per temperature difference.
What is thermal conductivity?
A popular graph-based simplification of binary distillation.
What is McCabe-Thiele?
This German-based chemical manufacturer is the largest chemical producer.
What is BASF?
This is the most common equation used to describe enzyme reaction kinetics.
What is the Michaelis-Menton equation?
The compressibility factor, Z, is equal to this for a gas that behaves ideally.
What is one?
This parameter is defined as the following.
alpha = k/(rho*Cp)
What is thermal diffusivity?
The ratio of actual efficiency to ideal efficiency on a plate.
What is Murphree efficiency?
This is the largest descendent of Standard Oil, formed in 1999 from the merger of two other petroleum companies.
What is Exxon-Mobil?
The creator of this adsorption model won the Nobel Prize in in 1932 for his work concerning surface chemistry.
What is the Langmuir (adsorption model)?
The Van der Waals equations of state includes a term a/V^2 which models this type of intermolecular force
What are attractive forces?
This law of radiation states that the emissivity and the absorptivity of a surface at a given temperature and wavelength are equal.
What is Kirchhoff's Law
In binary distillation the component with the lower _____ is the primary component in the distillate.
What is the Volatility?
Best known for its aspirin, this German company recently has begun a merger with Monsanto.
What is Bayer?
Although sounding like terminology from a cooking oil commercial, this behavior is characteristic of many catalytic reactions.
What is saturation kinetics?
The combination of Boyle’s law and Charles’s law eventually led to this new equation of state, first stated by Clapeyron in 1834.
What is the ideal gas law?
This is the boundary condition at a perfectly insulated surface.
What is dT/dx = 0 ?
A simplifying assumption that states that the liquid and vapor molar flow rates are constant in the rectifying section and that the liquid and vapor molar flow rates are constant ( but different) in the stripping section.
What is Constant Molal Overflow (or CMO)?
The largest Korean chemical producer, this was originally founded as a cosmetics manufacturer named Lucky Chemical Industrial Corporation.
What is LG Chem?
This dimensionless number becomes large when diffusion cannot keep up with reaction in a catalyst pellet.
What is the Thiele modulus?
This law states that different gases behave similarly when compared to their condition relative to the critical point.
What is the law of corresponding states?
Dimensionless number denoted by the following.
(h/ rho*Cp*V) = Nu/(ReL * Pr)
What is the Stanton number?
A device on a plate that promotes liquid & vapor mixing but also increases the pressure drop across the plate.
What is a Bubble Cup?
This French company was formed in 1902 and is known primarily for its production of industrial gases.
What is Air Liquide?
This seemingly common-sense ratio can exceed 100% for an exothermic reaction in a catalyst pellet.
What is the (catalyst pellet) effectiveness factor?
This equation of state is given by
(PV/RT) = 1 + B/V + C/V^2 + …
What is the virialequation of state?