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