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