Chemical Reaction Engineering Miscellaneous
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PocketMouse on April 5, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What are the four groups of chemical products? | Commodity chemicals, semi-commodity chemicals, fine chemicals, ultrafine chemicals |
| price of commodity chemicals | ~ 1 $/kg |
| price of semi-commodity chemicals | ~ 10 $/kg |
| price of fine chemicals | ~ 100 $/kg |
| price of ultrafine chemicals | ~ 100,000 - 1,000,000 $/kg |
| What is the year energy consumption of the globe? | 17 Terawatts, almost all from hydrocarbons |
| average size of an oil refinery | 1,000,000 tons/year |
| average size of a chemical plant | 100,000 tons/year |
| balance point of cost of energy | ~ 12 $/GJ --> 10% of GDP |
| volume of one mol of air/ideal gas | 22.4 Liters |
| estimated gas phase reaction rate | ~ 1 mol/Liter*sec |
| C_p for a diatomic gas | 7/2 *R |
| conversion between kW and hp | .746 kW/hp |
| strength of a carbon-hydrogen bond | 4.1 eV |
| efficiency of internal combustion | 10-20 % |
| Inventor of the catalytic converter | Eugene Houdry |
| Inventor of cat-cracking | Eugene Houdry - get 25 gallons/barrel instead of 7 gallons/barrel |
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