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