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