Process Control and Design
Separations
Organic Chemistry
Kinetics and Reactor Design
100
This flow measuring detector applies a converging cone-shaped inlet section, usually measuring the pressure difference of a fluid
What is a venturi tube?
100
These large cylinders dominate the skyline of a Chemical Plant, and are usually equipped with a total condenser and partial reboiler
What is a Distillation Column?
100
This functional group contains a carbonyl, a carbon double-bonded to an oxygen
What is an aldehyde?
100
This is the slow step of any reaction and determines the overall rate of reaction
What is the rate-determining step?
200
This is the basic function of a process control system
What is to maintain a balanced energy or material input-to-output relationship?
200
Perhaps the most boring piece of Chemical Engineering equipment, this piece of equipment simply allows a two-phase liquid mixture to sit idly and phase-separate
What is a Settler/Decanter?
200
Organic chemists use this to predict the structure of a molecule made in the lab by looking at a graph of molecule's wavelength and observing peaks
What is spectroscopy? (IR and NMR)
200
According to collision theory, these two conditions must be met before a collision is deemed "effective"
What are "have sufficient kinetic energy" and "correct orientation of particles"?
300
A variable orifice that is used to regulate the flow of a process fluid according to the process requirements, it is an integral part of a control loop
What is a control valve?
300
A gas that must be rid of a hazardous impurity must be sent to one of these (beginning with the letter “s”) before being released to the environment
What is a Scrubber?
300
This reaction adds a halogen (using Br2 or Cl2 in the presence of light) to the Markovnikov (most substituted) position of an alkane
What is Halogenation?
300
This type of reactor has nutrients move continuously through it and can be characterized by the presence of lateral mixing, but not well mixing
What is a plug-flow reactor?
400
If the output from one device is not compatible with the input it supplies to another device, this must be applied
What is a transducer?
400
Also likely to be seen on an episode of CSI, this machine spins very quickly and separates components based on density. For goodness sakes though, be sure it is balanced before starting it!
What is a Centrifuge?
400
Benzoic acid contains these two functional groups
What is Aromatic and Carboxylic Acid?
400
This type of reactor is most suitable to use for an isothermal reaction
What is a CSTR? (Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor)
500
You should choose this control strategy if an accurate and stable continuous control is required for a large, complex system
What is a three-element control strategy?
500
To laypeople, smog appears to emerge from the top of this large tapered cylinder, but fear not! It is simply water vapor, and incorporating these into your process is actually quite environmentally friendly, since they allow you to recycle process water
What is a Cooling Tower?
500
This reaction is an interconversion between a ketone and its structural isomer, an enol
What is tautomerization?
500
Where A→U (desired product) and A→W (undesired product), the rate expressions shown on my laptop (1) because this silly website wants me to pay to upload images correspond to this type of reactor
What is a semi-batch reactor?