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