Raw materials and Costs & Efficiency

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  • Created on: 29-04-14 15:54
Raw materials are...?
The materials from which feedstocks are made.
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Solids are ___ to handle so are often ___ and maintained as __ __ to reduce ___ costs?
Expensive, melted, hot liquids, transportation
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Alternatively solids can be mixed with liquids to form a ___?
Slurry
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To go from natural gases to alkanes you use ___ ___ and to go from alkanes to alkenes you use ___ ___?
Fractional distillation, Steam distillation
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As the rate at which the product is produced so does the rate at which any ____s are produced?
Co-products
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By-products are formed when...?
An unwanted side reaction occurs.
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What are fixed costs?
Those incurred by the company irrespective of how much product they produce.
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What are capital costs?
Cocts incurred to establish the plant, buildings and infrastructures around which manufacture is based.
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What are variable costs?
Costs relating specifically to the unit of production.
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Green chemistry aims to reduce the use of ___ to a minimum, recycle unused ____ and ___ and reduce ___ ___ to a minimum?
Feedstocks, reactants, solvents, energy consumption
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The further the position of equilibrium to the right, the greater the...?
Percentage conversion to products
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To recycle unreacted materials, any unreacted ___ needs to be separated from the reaction mixture? This may involve some of the reaction mixture being __ __ at intervals?
Feedstock. Bled off
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When a reaction releases thermal energy, this can be conserved by __ __ and by using ___ ___? Energy from the exothermic parts can be used to supply energy to the ___ parts by raising the temperature of the ___?
Lagging pipes, heat exchangers. Endothermic, reactants
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Solids are ___ to handle so are often ___ and maintained as __ __ to reduce ___ costs?

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Expensive, melted, hot liquids, transportation

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Alternatively solids can be mixed with liquids to form a ___?

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To go from natural gases to alkanes you use ___ ___ and to go from alkanes to alkenes you use ___ ___?

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As the rate at which the product is produced so does the rate at which any ____s are produced?

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