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