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