FALL 2022 – CHE 206

QUIZ # 1 key

(1) List three chemical engineering equipment that can be used to increase or reduce
pressure, and three chemical engineering equipment that can be used to increase or
reduce temperature. (3 points)

For pressure:
Compressor, Turbine, Pump
For temperature:
Heater, cooler, heat exchanger (e.g.: co-current concentric tube heat exchanger,
counter-current concentric tube heat exchanger, shell-and-tube heat exchanger)

(2) What is the name of the equipment show below? Label the two shown types. (3
points)

(3) List three types of reactors and mention a process where each type is used. (3 points)

a) Batch reactor: drugs and medicines manufacturing

b) Continuously stirred tank reactor: fermenters

c) Plug flow reactor: oil cracking

(4) Batch chemical operations are more efficient for producing large quantities of
chemicals. True or false? (1 points)

a. True
b. False