the birth of ChE

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age of the chemical engineering profession

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less than 100 years old

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heritage dates

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from the fermentation and evaporation processes operated by
early civilizations

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who are in charge before chemical engineers were born

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mechanical engineers

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why are the mechanical engineers responsible for the operation of chemical plants?

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because they have good knowledge of industrial chemistry

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what is the challenge that could not be met by the traditional chemist or mechanical engineer

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demand for plants capable of operating physical separation processes
continuously at high levels of efficiency

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what is the reason why chemical engineering became an established discipline

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role in the development of the petroleum industry

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In which development did the modern chemical engineering emerged

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development of large-scale,
chemical-manufacturing operations in the second half of the 19th century

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when did the term chemical engineer was in general use

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1900

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where is chemical engineering has been directed

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toward solving problems of designing and operating large
plants for continuous production

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where is the focus of chemical engineering in the early days

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individual technologies and not on unification of principles

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the students are trained in

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the manufacture of a particular chemical but
would not have basic concepts to solve problems arising in another industry the students trained in

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a chemical engineer should have

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good fundamental understanding of the various processes occurring in a plant

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who isnthe father of chemical engineering

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George E. Davis

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Where did George E. Davis studied

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Slough Mechanics
Institute and the Royal School of
Mines in London (now a part of
Imperial College, London)

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where did George E. Davis worked

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chemical industries around
Manchester

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before david became a consultant, what was his job?

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inspector for the Alkali Act of 1863

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early piece of environmental legislation

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Alkali Act of 1863

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what is one thing that the Alkali Act of 1863 required?

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required soda
manufacturers to reduce the amount of hydrochloric acid gas vented into the atmosphere from their factories

Question 19

What was Davis comprehensive study was all about?

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different processes of plants and highlighted the fundamental principles on which these processes were based

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how many lectures did George Davis had, when and where was it?

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12 lectures in 1887 at the Manchester School of Technology

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what was the basis of the handbook of chemical engineering?

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David’s lectures

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what was the handbook of chemical engineering was all about?

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basic operations common
to many industries—transporting solids, liquids, and gases; distillation; crystallization; and evaporation, to name a few

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when was the first textbook was published

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1901

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what was the concentration of the first textbook or what was it all about?

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design of plant items for specific operations

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notion of a processing plant encompassing a number of operations, such as mixing, evaporation, and filtration, and of these operations being essentially similar, whatever the product

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concept of unit operations

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who enunciated the unit operations and when

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American chemical engineer Arthur D. Little in 1915

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formed the basis for a classification of chemical engineering that dominated the subject for the next 40 years

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American chemical engineer Arthur D. Little

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building blocks of a chemical plant

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unit operations

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fundamental similarity in the different processes in the various plants

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introduction of the concept of unit operations

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provides a scientific basis and a unified approach for understanding the behavior of processes in the various units; reactors, separators, etc. in apparently different chemical plants

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concept of unit operations

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helps us in providing a unified framework for understanding and describing processes operating on similar principles

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unit operations

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unit operations shifted the emphasis from what to what?

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from a technology-based approach to a science-based approach

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groups of chemical reactions involved in the process industries (e.g., polymerizations, esterifications, and nitrations)

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unit processes

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examples of unit processes

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polymerizations, esterifications, and nitrations

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brought rationalization to the study of process engineering

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classification into unit processes

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fundamental phenomena involved in the various unit operations has shown these is dependent to

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basic laws of mass transfer, heat transfer, and fluid flow

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what is the result of teh development of chemical engineering

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many applications have been found in fields outside the traditional chemical industry

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what is one of the progress in the chemical engineering field?

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necessitated their description in mathematical form and has led to more sophisticated mathematical techniques

Question 39

This has allowed laborious design calculations to be performed rapidly

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digital computers

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this opens the way to accurate optimization of industrial processes

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digital computer

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what is needed to be predicted accurately and quickly so that the best combination can be chosen?

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Variations due to different parameters, such as energy source used, plant layout, and environmental factors

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sotech vision

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To be a lead institution in food, environment and engineering, complementary to the mandate of the University of the Philippines Visayas

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sotech mission

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1. Produce globally-competitive leaders and innovators; 2. Generate and transfer environment-friendly and ridge-to-reef appropriate technologies; and 3. Advocate for and contribute to sustainable development.