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Cooling Tower

A simple device that performs two functions in a process system. It removes heat from water and it provides cool water to remove heat from process.

Centrifugal Compressors

Accelerate the gas giving the gas energy.

Respirators

Air Suplying Air Purifying

Check Valves are designed to?

Allow fluid flow in one direction only

__________ is a measurement of the chemical or physical properties of a substance.

Analytical

Why must condensate be removed from steam systems?

Because slugs of condensate can cause "water hammer" a damaging condition

The Clean Water Act in 1972 Adopted the _____________________________ strategy for all cleanups.

Best available technology (BAT)

What are 3 main ways to measure pressure?

Bourdon Tubes Bellows Manometers

4 Furnace Designs

Box "A" Frame Cylindrical Cabin

A ________ is a material that can increase or decrease a Reaction without becoming a part of it.

Catalyst

Catalytic cracking uses ________ to separate mixtures.

Catalyst

What are the most common pumps in industry?

Centrifugal Pumps are used 80% of the time while the other 20% are positive-displacement pumps

Industrial technicians ________ , organize, and _______ data.

Collect Analyze

Who took and old steam engine and adopted it to fit a drill in 1859?

Colonel Edwin L. Drake

What ways do Heat transfer?

Conduction, Convection, Radiation

What does a transducer do?

Converts one signal to another signal (Pneumatic to Electric and Electric to Pneumatic)

The primary purpose of the cooling tower is to?

Cool water

2 types of bonds

Covalent and Ionic

Separation is determined by?

Density

What are Compressors?

Device used to move gasses at a certain pressure and flow rate

Name 6 products derived from crude oil.

Diesel fuel Gasoline Cosmetics Lube oil Aspirin Plastics Tar

Level is measured or sensed by what main device?

Differential Pressure Transmitters

Furnaces are classified as?

Direct fired and indirect fired

Fractional columns operate using what principle?

Distillation Daltons Law

List 2 gurus who changed the principles of quality.

Dr. W. Edwards Deming Joesph M. Juran

What are the most common drivers in industry?

Electric Motors

OSHA and EPA believe that the key to preventing catastrophic emergencies inside the chemical processing industry is _____________________.

Employee Training

What does EPA stand for?

Environmental Protection Agency

The primary method a cooling tower uses to transfer heat is?

Evaporation

The primary methods of heat transfer include?

Evaporation Sensible

William Aaron Hart is best known for?

First natural gas well.

C1 - C4 C4 - C12 C10 - C14 C12 - C20 C20 - C36 C36 +

Gases Gasoline Kerosine Heating Oil Lube Oil Tar Asphalt

What valve is the most commonly used in the industry?

Gate Valve

Exothermic Reaction does what?

Gives off heat

List 3 permits found at every plant.

Hot Work Permit Cold Work Permit Unplugging Permit

Heat is transferred from

Hot to Cold

Crude oil is a mixture of ?

Hydrocarbons

4 Ways Chemicals Can Enter the Body

Inhalation Absorption Ingestion Injection

2 inventions that changed the direction of modern chemical processing?

Lightbulb Automobile

4 Draft (air-flow) Designs

Natural Draft Induced Draft Forced Draft Balanced Draft

What 3 agencies are responsible for the administration of the Occupational Safety and Health Act?

OSHA OSHRC NIOSH

Name three vessels.

Open Top Tank - Heat Exchanger High Pressure Tank - Cooling Tower Covered Top Tank - Boiler

Fire Triangle

Oxygen Fuel Heat

The lifeblood of modern society is?

Petroleum Products

The 4 types of Heat Exchangers are?

Plate Air Cooled Direct Contact Shell and Tube

Control Loop

Primary Elements and Sensors Final Control Elements Transmitters Transducers Controllers

Steam generators, sometimes called boilers are used to?

Produce Steam

How do pumps work?

Pumps add pressure energy to a system

2 main ways temperature is measured are?

RTD's Thermocouple

Purpose of Bearings

Radial Bearings are designed to prevent vertical (up-down) and horizontal (side-side) movements of the rotating shaft. Axial Bearings are designed to prevent back and forth movement of the shaft. Also designed to enhance low friction, low wear rotary movement and also stabilize the shaft in its position.

What do Steam Traps do?

Remove condensate from steam systems

Distillation is a process that ?

Separates various components in a mixture by boiling points.

Globe Valves are designed to?

Start and stop flow

Boilers are also called what?

Steam Generators

Endothermic Reaction does what?

Takes in heat

Ways we control process variables are

Temperature Flow Level Pressure

Reboilers have two basic designs.

Thermal Radiant

What was the purpose of RCRA?

To protect human health and the environment.

What are valves used for?

To start, stop, redirect, and control the flow of fluids.

Safety Valves are

Used in gas/vapor service

Relief Valves are

Used in liquid service

Electrical motors include all basic components except?

Volute Impeller

The big rollover was best described as what?

When global oil production peaks, and begins to decline.

HAZCOM is frequently referred to as the what?

Workers Right To Know Act

What is Delta P?

A force generated inside a casting

Sensible heat transfer accounts for ________ in a cooling tower.

10-20%

Early manufacturers were able to extract ___ barrels of gasoline from every 100 barrels of crude oil.

11

When was the first oil refinery built by W. Abbott and W. Barnsdall?

1860

What year was the OSHA Act passed?

1970

The year before OSHA was enacted there were ____ disabling injuries and _______ deaths linked to safety and health violations.

2.5 million 14,000

Modern manufacturers can extract ___ barrels of gasoline from 100 barrels of crude oil.

45

Kettle Reboilers have __ connections.

5

Evaporation accounts for __________ of the heat transfer in a cooler tower?

80%-90%

What is a transmitter?

A device designed to convert a measurement into a signal

Furnace

A device used primarily to heat large quantities of hydrocarbons.

What is a pump?

A device used to move a liquid through a system


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