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Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the technology of large-scale chemical production and the manufacture of products through chemical processes. Today, the field of chemical engineering is a diverse one, covering areas from biotechnology and nanotechnology to mineral processing.

1,464 Questions

Name two types of carbohydrates?

*Sucrose (fructose, glucose) *Maltose (glucose, glucose) *Lactose (galactose, glucose)

* = disaccharides

()= monosaccharides

All are sugars which equal carbohydrates

other examples are corn syrup, sorbitol, glycerol, dextrin, starch...

How can you make electricity without a battery?

You can make your own battery, or you can use a generator of some sort.

To make a battery, you need an electrolyte of some sort and electrodes from opposite ends of the period table. You would likely use zinc for one of the electrodes and copper or carbon for the other. You could use citrus fruit or potatoes for the electrolyte medium, and place the electrodes into them.

For a generator, you would need to create moving magnetic fields inside of coils of wire. You would have to create the movement at a steady rate, and use circuits to regulate the voltage and current produced.

Can silver be used to make electrical wires?

Silver is used as a low resistance conductive material. Contactors and relays contact points are made of copper and are silver plated to obtain the lowest resistance between the moving contact faces.

How do you design distillation column?

Assuming you have binary components the McCabe Thiele Method should be used. Otherwise a process simulator such as Aspen, Pro/II, and/or KGTower should be used.

How does a refinery functions?

Well.. Its a small n initeresting question but the answer is too lengthy for this.. I will try briefing on it. Crude oil procured contains many impurities like salts, metals which need to be taken off. Its been taken to desalters and then to the main crude column. In fractionator, the components get separated depending on their boiling points. The bottmom of the fractionator is taken to vaccum column. The vacuum maintained will be approx 15- 20 mmHg at the bottom of the column. Lighters generated in main column are aondensed and used as naptha. The different cuts like kerosene and diesel are routed to respective hydro treaters. The heavier portion (higher C-H) are considered for either hydro cracking or hydro treater. In hydrotreater the main reactant is Hydrogen which is used at very high pressure and temperature which helps in denitrification and desulfurisation respectively.

Is brass biodegradable?

No, brass is a metal that will stay for thousands of years in landfills and rubbish dumps without breaking down.

What is the role of a bioprocess engineer in botechnology industry?

Process engineering helps obtain the specifics of a certain industrial process. In the biotech industry, the quality of the final product has a huge bearing on the right physical and chemical conditions being maintained.

Therefore, the industrial process has to be engineered in order to obtain product starting from raw material.

What is the main difference between thermosetting plastic and thermoplastic?

thermosetting plastic becomes hard when heated and deteriorates by excessive cross linking and thermoplastic becomes soft and can be moulded into any shape.

What is tetra chloro fluoro methane?

I know it is an additive used in gasoline and some other petroleum products. Do a google search on it. The above answer is incorrect. It was a refrigerant and aerosol spray propellant until its manufacture was discontinued in 1995. It was usually sold under the brand name Freon-12.

Is lead biodegradable?

Yes, in olden times, when cars used lead net in the smoke valve of the cars, at that time, it released a lot of smoke into the air. If one wanted to dispose it, he needed a lot of effort to do so. So, lead vapour is a non- biodegradable pollutant. Now a days too burning lead is poisonous thing and is a hateful thing to do to the workers. It releases CO2 in the air also.

How would you separate dissolved sugar from water?

By evaporating the water out, which precipitates the sugar back into its crystalline form.

What is the order of efficiency of venturi meter orifice meter and rotoameter?

  1. The orifice plate can easily be changed to accomodate widely different flow rates, whereas the throat diameter of a venturi is fixed, so that its range of flow rates is circumscribed by the practical limits of Dp.
  2. The orifice meter has a large permanent loss of pressure because of the presence of eddies on the downstream side of the orifice-plate; the shape of the venturi meter prevents the formation OS these eddies and greatly reduces the permanent loss.
  3. The orifice is cheap and easy to install. The venturi meter is expensive, as it must be carefully proportioned and fabricated. A home made orifice is often entirely satisfactory, whereas a venturi meter is practically always purchased from an instrument dealer.
  4. On the other hand, the head lost in the orifice for the same conditions as in the venturi is many times greater. The power lost is proportionally greater, and, when an orifice is inserted in a line carrying fluid continuously over long periods of time, the cost of the power may be out of all proportion to the saving in first cost. Orifices are therefore best used for testing purposes or other cases where the power lost is not a factor, as in steam lines.
  5. However, in spite of considerations of power loss, orifices are widely used, partly because of their greater flexibility, because installing a new orifice plate with a different opening is a simpler matter. The venturi meter can not be so altered. Venturi meters are used only for permanent installations.
  6. It should be noted that for a given pipe diameter and a given diameter of orifice opening or venturi throat, the reading of the venturi meter for a given velocity is to the reading of the orifice as (0.61/0.98)2, or 1:2.58.(i.e. orifice meter will show higher manometer reading for a given velocity than venturi meter).

How coring of alloys during solidification be prevented?

By proper composition of metal & by slow cooling & by uniform distribution of metal

What is gas absorption?

GAS ABSORPTION: The process of wholly taking in one substance into other through the pores or interstices is called gas absorption. EXAMPLE:When hydrogen chloride gas is passed through water it gets absorped to form hydrochloric acid ans by m.fahim

Is potassium aurocyanide used as an electrolyte in electroplating of gold?

A common electrolyte bath will normally contain either a potassium-cyanide solution or a cyanide-free solution based on sulfites or chlorides.

Is tin a pure substance or a mixture?

Pure Tin is a metallic element with the symbol Sn.

Tin is always pure. Tin is not a mixture, but it may be a part of a mixture, like in bronze

What is the melting point of petrol and diesel?

These data depends strongly on the chemical composition.

For gasoline: the freezing point is from -40 0C to -60 0C

For Diesel fuel: the freezing point is from -6 0C to -20 0C

Why is the glass transition temperature of polystyrene greater than of polypropylene?

Higher the glass transition temperature of the polystyrene can be attributed to the fact that sterically rigid bulky aromatic moieties like benzene in the styrene compared to that of aliphatic polypropylene

How does alloying help to reduce corrosion?

Corrosion is a chemical reaction that weakens a metal. It is a redox reaction, to be exact. By creating an alloy, new atoms (or different rations of atoms) are added in the metal being made, which changes the structure of the metal. This can form stronger bonds, which can be resistant to the redox corrosion reaction.

Note: Alloys can be made that have a worse resistance to such reactions, but there is no market for them, so they are not sold.

How does an Endoscope workWhat is it made of?

An endoscope is a type of medical equipment used in hospitals to look into other peoples bodies before they have an operation. It is made out of fibre optics and so would also make it easier in an hospital for emergency calls because you use the fibre optic stuff in phone calls.

(by the way i am only 13 and if anything is wrong please correct it)

Correction

I am a second year veterinary nursing student and I was searching for information on endoscopes for a report I'm having to write and thought this was a rather cute answer.

Just thought I'd post up what I found elsewhere and I hope it helps you :)

Fibre optics are small pieces of glass that have the ability to transmit light. They are ideal for use in an endoscope as they can act as both a light source and a camera. They are also small and flexible, meaning that an endoscope can be guided inside the body easily and without causing the patient any pain.

Surgical instruments can also be passed down the tube of an endoscope, such as a tiny blade, which can be used to remove tissue during a biopsy. Pulses of heat and electricity can also be sent down the endoscope, which can be used to destroy unwanted tissue or growths, such as small tumours or gallstones.

Here's the link http://www.nhs.UK/Conditions/Endoscopy/Pages/How-does-it-work.aspx

Who invented the rubber chicken?

The Rubber man in the rubber tv show......Not!

Is naptha a volatile liquid?

Naptha is a common name for the industrial solvent Petroleum Ether. Other names include benzine, X-4, or Lingroin. Chemically, naptha is a mixture of straight chained hydrocarbon-ethers, straight chained alkanes, as well as some aromatic hydrocarbons. The actual composition of the naptha will depend on its boiling point (indicative of the distillation temperature). Naphtha is a product of crude oil distillation in an atmospheric distillation unit. The refineries often produce a light naphta blend and a heavier naphtha which is can be used as a gasoline additive. Naptha is also extremely effective at solvating non-polar compounds and is used frequently in organic chemistry.

What are the symbols of chemical engineering equipment?

See in http://engstandards.lanl.gov/index.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_flow_diagram

What is grain boundary scattering?

Grain boundary scattering refers to the magnetism that copper holds. By using grain boundary scattering, copper is more resistant to a magnetic pull.