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Chemical Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An electron given off during decay
solar - wind - hydro electrical - geothermal - and tidal
Beta particle
Chemical Engineer
underground
2. What are the 3 types of decay?
Prevention
alpha - beta - and gamma
Petroleum (crude oil)
Prevention
3. Nuclear engineers work at nuclear plants to _______ - ________ - ______ - ___ ______ the reactor's efficiency and safe operation.
design - run - observe - and improve
Remediation
disposal
used in nuclear weapons
4. Maintains the flow of petroleum in a safe and reliable manner Exploration of crude oil - Removal of the oil - Transporting the oil
Petroleum Engineer
Remediation
Gamma Decay
societal use
5. What are three nuclear engineering divisions?
electricity production - propulsion systems - waste disposal - and radiation applications
energy - radiation - beneficial
Power - Fusion Energy - and Reactor Physics
Petroleum Engineer
6. What was environmental engineering formally known as?
large- scale production facilities
Sanitary Engineering
Transmutation
design - develop - operate
7. Three areas under Environmental Engineering?
Petroleum (crude oil) - Natural Gas - Coal
radioactive decay
safe
disposal - remediation - and prevention
8. Environmental Engineering applies science in the pursuit of making the world a safer place for _____ ___ ______.
humans and animals
fundamental engineering principles
Petroleum - Environmental - and Nuclear
AIChe
9. Nuclear engineers are concerned mostly with...
electricity production - propulsion systems - waste disposal - and radiation applications
AIChe
Natural Gas
Beta Decay
10. Work at nuclear plants to design - run - observe - and improve the reactor's efficiency and safe operation
Gamma Decay
Beta particle
chemical engineering
Nuclear engineers
11. Study nuclear energy and radiation and their beneficial uses
Nuclear Engineers
AIChe
Fission
Refining the oil
12. Applies science in the pursuit of making the world a safer place for humans and animals
designs - develops - and operates
chemical products
disposal - remediation - and prevention
Environmental Engineering
13. What are the 3 types of fossil used today?
Petroleum (crude oil) - Natural Gas - Coal
2 out of 3
Refining the oil
radioactive decay
14. Chemical engineers take what chemists do in the lab and apply ________ _______ _______ to it for societal use.
fundamental engineering principles
Prevention
energy - radiation - beneficial
Nuclear Engineers
15. The process of splitting a nucleus into two smaller masses
electricity production - propulsion systems - waste disposal - and radiation applications
Fusion
Fission
reactor's efficiency and safe operation
16. How many chemical engineers work for a manufacturing industry?
Environmental Engineering
The Sun
2 out of 3
used in nuclear weapons
17. A Petroleum Engineer ____ - _____ - and ______ the equipment to process the petroleum into the end product
designs - develops - and operates
Chemical Engineer
thermonuclear fusion
Petroleum (crude oil) - Natural Gas - Coal
18. Nuclear reactors use controlled _____ _____ to convert nuclear energy into electrical energy.
Prevention
chain reactions
disposal
Remediation
19. Design process to reduce or eliminate harmful waste (most common area of Environmental)
used in nuclear weapons
underground
Prevention
humans and animals
20. Chemical engineers work with process to ensure ____ handling of reliable chemical products.
underground
Petroleum (crude oil)
safe
humans and animals
21. Petroleum Engineers are involved in...
disposal
Petroleum - Environmental - and Nuclear
chain reactions
Refining the oil
22. Petroleum (crude oil) is a flammable fluid produced from decaying animals in ___ _____ and ____ over a long period of time.
nuclear energy into electrical energy
Nuclear Engineers
Beta particle
high pressure - temperature
23. Most penetrating form of radiation
Gamma Decay
AIChe
Nuclear reactors
disposal - remediation - and prevention
24. Similar to Civil
disposal
2 out of 3
Chemical Engineer
disposal - remediation - and prevention
25. All fossil fuels are mined ____.
underground
Nuclear Engineers
Fission
The Sun
26. Disposal and processing of industrial and residential waste (similar to Civil)
fundamental engineering principles
2 protons and 2 neutrons
Power - Fusion Energy - and Reactor Physics
disposal
27. A flammable fluid produced from decaying animals in high pressure and temperature over a long period of time
design - run - observe - and improve
Petroleum (crude oil)
nuclear energy into electrical energy
Fission
28. Chemical engineers take what chemists do in the lab and apply fundamental engineering principles to it for ____ ____.
reactor's efficiency and safe operation
societal use
Power - Fusion Energy - and Reactor Physics
Gamma Decay
29. The process of combining two smaller masses into one larger nucleus
energy - radiation - beneficial
chemical products
Fusion
Coal
30. Chemical engineers ______ - ______ - and _____ large- scale production facilities (2 out of 3 work for manufacturing industry)
design - develop - operate
fundamental engineering principles
solar - wind - hydro electrical - geothermal - and tidal
Nuclear engineers
31. The sun uses ______ _____to radiate energy outwards.
alpha - beta - and gamma
disposal
Nuclear reactors
thermonuclear fusion
32. A brittle solid produced from decaying plants in high pressure and temperature over a long period of time
designs - develops - and operates
Coal
Remediation
Environmental Engineering
33. The process when one element becomes another through radioactive decay
AIChe
Transmutation
underground
Fusion
34. What is the highest paid engineer?
disposal - remediation - and prevention
Nuclear reactors
Chemical Engineer
solar - wind - hydro electrical - geothermal - and tidal
35. Emphasis on chemistry and the chemical nature of products and processes
Petroleum (crude oil)
chemical engineering
design - develop - operate
reactor's efficiency and safe operation
36. Disposal engineers dispose and process _____ and _____ waste
Gamma Decay
industrial - residential
Prevention
Beta particle
37. Loses a neutron and gains a proton
Beta Decay
large- scale production facilities
electricity production - propulsion systems - waste disposal - and radiation applications
2 protons and 2 neutrons
38. Chemical engineers design - develop - and operate _____-_____ ________ ________.
Remediation
large- scale production facilities
used in nuclear weapons
2 out of 3
39. Uses thermonuclear fusion to radiate energy outwards.
used in nuclear weapons
reactor's efficiency and safe operation
design - run - observe - and improve
The Sun
40. Fission
societal use
chemical engineering
Transmutation
used in nuclear weapons
41. American Institute of Chemical Engineers acronym!
fundamental engineering principles
Nuclear engineers
AIChe
industrial - residential
42. What are the 5 renewable sources of energy?
disposal
solar - wind - hydro electrical - geothermal - and tidal
high pressure - temperature
Chemical Engineer
43. Three branches - recognized by AIChE - of Chemical Engineering
Petroleum - Environmental - and Nuclear
chain reactions
Natural Gas
Prevention
44. Chemical engineers work with process to ensure safe handling of reliable _________ ________.
disposal
AIChe
chemical products
Petroleum (crude oil)
45. The sun uses thermonuclear fusion to ____ ____ _____.
radiate energy outwards
design - develop - operate
industrial - residential
Transmutation
46. Transmutation is the process when one element becomes another through _____ _____.
AIChe
radiate energy outwards
underground
radioactive decay
47. Use controlled chain reactions to convert nuclear energy into electrical energy
disposal
The Sun
Coal
Nuclear reactors
48. Cleaning up of a contaminated site
Remediation
disposal - remediation - and prevention
Nuclear engineers
fundamental engineering principles
49. What is always found with petroleum?
radiate energy outwards
natural gas
Fission
Coal
50. Nuclear reactors use controlled chain reactions to convert...
Prevention
Beta Decay
designs - develops - and operates
nuclear energy into electrical energy