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Chemical process engineering

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power station
facility generating electric power
thermal power station
facility where heat is converted to electric power
Exhaust gas recirculation
NOx reduction technique used in gasoline and diesel engines
molecular sieve
filter material with homogeneously sized pores in the nanometer range
process control
automation systems using control theory and physical industrial control systems to maintain the output of a specific process within a desired range
chemical plant
industrial process plant that manufactures chemicals
thermal runaway
loss of control of an exothermic process due to reactivity increasing with temperature
countercurrent exchange
mechanism occurring in nature and mimicked in industry and engineering
process flow diagram
diagram indicating general flow of plant processes and equipment; typically used to show major relationships in chemical and process engineering
mass balance
application of conservation of mass to the analysis of physical systems
process simulation
model-based representation of processes
Pinch analysis
methodology for minimising energy consumption of chemical processes
boiler feedwater
water supplied to a boiler
downstream
sector of the oil and gas industry concerned with refining, processing and purifying, marketing and distribution
transient state
system when a process variable or variables have been changed and the system has not yet reached a steady state
descaling agent
chemical substance used to remove limescale
Ergun equation
Relation between friction factor and Reynolds number
steam-electric power station
power plant, wherein the thermal energy is exploited by steam in a steam turbine
Chemical process modeling
Cascade
term in chemical engineering
Feedwater heater
power plant component