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A<br />

AASHTO, automobile pavement design, 141<br />

AC circuits, 169<br />

AC machines, 172<br />

Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS), 93<br />

acids, 77<br />

acids and bases, 78<br />

activated carbon adsorption, 161<br />

activated sludge, 159<br />

activity coefficients, 103<br />

addition, 6<br />

adiabatic process, 60<br />

aerobic digestion design, 160<br />

air refrigeration cycle, 217<br />

air stripping, 161<br />

air-to-cloth ratio, 147<br />

alcohols, 101<br />

aldehydes, 101<br />

algebra <strong>of</strong> complex numbers, 169<br />

amorphous materials and glasses, 86<br />

analysis <strong>of</strong> variance for 2 n factorial designs, 193<br />

anion, 78<br />

anode, 78<br />

anode reaction (oxidation), 82<br />

anthropometric measurements, 200<br />

approximations, 190<br />

Archimedes principle and buoyancy, 45<br />

area formulas for surveying, 142<br />

arithmetic progression, 7<br />

Arrhenius function, 104<br />

ASHRAE psychrometric chart No. 1, 65<br />

ASTM, 203<br />

ASTM grain size, 84<br />

atmospheric dispersion modeling, 143<br />

atomic bonding, 82<br />

atomic number, 78<br />

automobile pavement design, 141<br />

average and range charts, 189<br />

average value, 169<br />

Avogadro's number, 78<br />

B<br />

backwash, 164<br />

baghouse filters, 147<br />

balanced three-phase systems, 171<br />

ball/roller bearing selection, 204<br />

bases, 77<br />

basic cycles, 58<br />

batch reactor, 105<br />

batch reactor constant T and V, 104<br />

beam design, steel (LRFD, ASD), 122<br />

allowable moments curves (ASD), 135<br />

design moments curves (LRFD), 135<br />

beam fixed-end moment formulas, 114<br />

beam-columns, steel, 124<br />

bearing strength, 125<br />

bed expansion, 164<br />

belt friction, 25<br />

benefit-cost analysis, 93<br />

binary phase diagrams, 59<br />

binomial distribution, 16<br />

bioconcentration factor, 149<br />

biodegradation <strong>of</strong> glucose with no product, 76<br />

biomechanics <strong>of</strong> the human body, 194<br />

INDEX<br />

219<br />

biotower, 160<br />

bipolar junction transistor (BJT), 182, 183<br />

BOD, 148<br />

BOD exertion, 148<br />

boilers, condensers, evaporators, one side in a heat exchanger, 57<br />

boiling point elevation, 78<br />

bolted and riveted joints loaded in shear, 205<br />

bonds, 93<br />

book value, 93<br />

brake power, 212<br />

brake thermal efficiency, 212<br />

Brayton cycle (steady-flow cycle), 213<br />

break-even analysis, 92<br />

break-through time for leachate to penetrate a clay liner, 150<br />

C<br />

cancer slope factor, 155<br />

canonical product <strong>of</strong> sums (POS), 188<br />

canonical sum <strong>of</strong> products (SOP), 188<br />

capacitors and inductors, 168<br />

capacitors and inductors in parallel and series, 168<br />

capatalized costs, 93<br />

carbon balance, 76<br />

carboxylic acids, 101<br />

Carmen-Kozeny equation, 163<br />

Carnot Cycle, 58<br />

catalyst, 78<br />

cathode, 78<br />

cation, 78<br />

cellular biology, 74<br />

centroids and moments <strong>of</strong> inertia, 12<br />

centroids <strong>of</strong> masses, areas, lengths, and volumes, 24<br />

chemical<br />

reaction <strong>engineering</strong>, 104<br />

reaction equilibrium, 103<br />

thermodynamics, 103<br />

chemical names, 102<br />

chemical process safety, 109<br />

circle, 4<br />

circular sector, 10<br />

circular segment, 10<br />

clarification, 162<br />

clarifier, 162<br />

classification <strong>of</strong> polymers, 86<br />

Clausius' statement <strong>of</strong> second law, 60<br />

closed thermodynamic system, 56<br />

closed-system availability, 60<br />

column design, steel, 123<br />

allowable stress table (ASD), 134<br />

column effective length KL, 123<br />

K-values and alignment chart, 130<br />

columns<br />

Euler's formula, 42<br />

steel design, 123<br />

combustion<br />

in air, 59<br />

in excess air, 59<br />

incomplete, 59<br />

processes, 59<br />

common metallic crystal structures, 82<br />

common names and molecular formulas <strong>of</strong> some industrial (inorganic<br />

and organic) chemicals, 102<br />

common thermodynamic cycles, 61<br />

complex numbers, 5, 169<br />

complex power, 171<br />

composite materials, 85

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