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🦫Intro to Chemical Engineering
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339 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Chemical Engineering exam

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A

Absorption factor (a)
Acidification Potential
Activated carbon
Activated sludge process
Activity Coefficients
Adiabatic wall
Administrative controls
Adsorption
Advanced Materials
Agitator
Agricultural chemicals
Air-lift pump
Alcohol production
Anaerobic digestion
Aqueous phase
Arrhenius Equation
Atom economy
Atomic Force Microscopy
Axial Compressor

B

Balancing chemical equations
Batch distillation
Batch Process Balance
Biofertilizers
Biopesticides

C

Capacitance Probe
Capital cost
Capital cost reduction
Carbon nanotubes
Carnot Cycle
Catalyst deactivation
Catalytic activity
Catalytic cracking
Catastrophic failure
Cell culture
Cellulosic ethanol
Center of Pressure
Chemical Reactors
Chemistry
Coatings
Colburn j-factor
Complete combustion
Component mass basis
Composition measurement
Compressed hydrogen gas storage
Compressible fluid
Compressor efficiency
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computer-aided design (CAD)
Concentration profile
Conductivity Sensor
Continuous distillation
Control Volume
Control Volume Analysis
Conversion Rate
Cooling Systems
Coriolis flowmeter
Cost analysis
Coulombic Efficiency
Countercurrent
Cross-current

D

Dalton's Law
Dehydrogenation
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Diffusion in porous media
Diffusion through membranes
Dimensionless Numbers
Dirichlet Boundary Condition
Distillation Column
Distributed production
Distribution Coefficient
Divided Wall Columns (DWCs)
Downstream processing
Driving Force
Dynamic compressor

E

Electrolysis