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Chemical Engineering Fundamentals
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1
Question
What is a measure of how much of a desired product is formed during a reaction?
Answer
Yield
2
Question
What term best fits the definition of a measure of desired product formation in a reaction?
Answer
Yield
3
Question
Which is not a measure of desired product formed during a reaction: single pass conversion, overall conversion, or yield?
Answer
Yield
4
Question
What do all chemical plants make as the same product?
Answer
Money
5
Question
According to the material, what is the universal product of all chemical plants?
Answer
Money
6
Question
What process has values like flow and temperature that do not change over time?
Answer
Steady State
7
Question
Select the term for a process where process variables remain constant over time.
Answer
Steady State
8
Question
What is a process where material or energy crosses the system boundary constantly, not necessarily steady state?
Answer
Continuous
9
Question
Which term describes a process with constant material/energy crossing the boundary?
Answer
Continuous
10
Question
What is a basic step in a process involving physical or chemical changes like separation, crystallization, evaporation, filtration, or reaction?
Answer
Unit Operation
11
Question
Define a unit operation based on the given description.
Answer
A basic step typically involving physical or chemical transformation such as separation, crystallization, evaporation, filtration, or reaction.
12
Question
What measures how much of one reactant is consumed in a reactor?
Answer
Single Pass Conversion
13
Question
Distinguish single pass conversion from yield or overall conversion.
Answer
Single Pass Conversion
14
Question
What process adds material all at once, allows time to pass, then removes material?
Answer
Batch Process
15
Question
Which is not continuous or semi-batch: material added all at once then removed after time?
Answer
Batch Process
16
Question
What condition has a solute dissolved in a solvent to its solubility limit?
Answer
Saturated
17
Question
When is a solution saturated according to the definition?
Answer
When a solute is dissolved to its solubility limit - no more could possibly be in solution.
18
Question
When heating a liquid mixture at constant pressure, first bubble of vapor forms at what?
Answer
Bubble Point Temperature
19
Question
What has the liquid mixture reached when first vapor bubble forms at constant pressure?
Answer
Bubble point temperature
20
Question
For a vapor mixture compressed at constant temperature, first drop of liquid forms at what?
Answer
Dew Point Pressure
21
Question
What is reached when compressing vapor at constant T and first liquid drop forms?
Answer
Dew point pressure
22
Question
In an adiabatic system, what will be zero?
Answer
Q (heat transfer)
23
Question
What process or operation has no temperature change?
Answer
Isothermal
24
Question
Select the term for a process with no temperature change occurring.
Answer
Isothermal
25
Question
What is a process where process values change over time?
Answer
Transient
26
Question
Opposite of steady state in processes?
Answer
Transient
27
Question
A mathematical model relating pressure, temperature, and molar volume of matter?
Answer
Equation of State
28
Question
Which is an equation of state example from first principles or empirical data?
Answer
Equation of State
29
Question
Substance at T and P above critical point, no distinct liquid/gas phases, but below pressure to solidify?
Answer
Supercritical
30
Question
What describes a substance above its critical temperature and pressure?
Answer
Supercritical