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