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