You might be a Chemical Engineer if...!!!

• You have a favorite pump manufacturer.
• You are planning to install a scrubber on you kitchen chimney.
• Somebody mentions stimulation and you take it as simulation.
• You can size distillation column in head but need a pencil and paper to calculate tip for dinner.
• You associate word beautiful and sexy with a butterfly valve.
• While extinguishing a small fire using a CO2 cylinder you are thinking of the temperature drop due to Joule-Thomson effect.
• You see a good design and still have to change it.
• You know who invented Jell-O.
• You think "cuddling" is simply an unproductive application of heat exchange.
• You've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
• You have any of the following personalized items:
  • Hard hat
  • Safety goggles
  • Calculator case
  • Slide rule

• You know the direction the water swirls when you flush.
• You'd really like to have a T-shirt that says "Chemical Engineers Do It In Fluidised   Beds"
• You think the value of a book is directly proportionate to the amount of tables, charts and graphs it contains.
• Your three-year-old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory.
• You have a psychrometric chart on the side table next to your bed
• While washing your face in your bathroom you holler to your wife that today the water flow is "laminar".
• You find your wife getting late for the party and you start lecturing her on "Mean Time Between Failure".
• Every time while drinking a bottled beverage you try read the composition of the beverage from the beverage label.
• You refer to your children as your "pilot units".
• You think of the Carnot cycle everytime you turn on your AC unit.
• When you look at objects in the distance and think of mean free path.
• You explain surface tension to your 10 year old when they ask why you are adding oil to boiling spaghetti.
• You make your own shampoo!
• You read this page for the first time on a Saturday night.
• You try to explain entropy to strangers at your table during casual dinner conversation.

You know you are chemical engineer if you really have read this from top to bottom.

Books for Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering is a very vast field of study. A lot choices of courses are available and with each course there are hundreds of book to choose from. Today we will talk about some books that can be consulted for basic understanding of chemical engineering - 

• Transport Phenomena by Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot - Good book for grasping fundamental knowledge of mass and momentum transfer. 
• Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering by H. Scott Fogler - A very good book for CRE. You can also consult CRE by Levenspiel. 
• Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by Mccabe, Smith and Harriot - Covers topic on unit operations. 
• Mass Transfer Operation by Robert Treybal - Although somewhat difficult to follow but has more than enough content about mass transfer operations. 
• Process Heat Transfer by D Q Kern - Covers elementary topics on heat transfer and heat exchangers. 
• Chemical Process Control by George Stephanopoulos - Good book written in lucid style and covers process dynamics and control. 

These are basic books and covers introductory material on chemical engineering. There are many other good books available. You should consult your professor for which book to follow. 

Some of best unknown Harry Potter facts

Love Harry Potter? Now with our some unknown facts you are going to love it even more. 

• At the the end of the 4th part, a line in the credits read-
  "No Dragons were harmed in the making of this film"

• Natalie McDonald, who appears on page 159 of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, was a real person.

• She was a young Canadian fan of the novels with a terminal illness, leukemia. A friend of her mother's wrote to J. K. Rowling to ask her to write to Natalie. J.K. Rowling did not receive the letter  until after a holiday, and though she admits to fearing it was "too  late", wrote back, telling Natalie what happens to each of the main  characters, only to find out from Natalie's mother that she had passed  away. The two women began a friendship, and Natalie was thus added to  the books (into Gryffindor, the house of bravery), as a tribute. Her  mother kept the contents of the letter secret until her other two  children finished reading The Deathly Hallows. 

Harry Potter and J K Rowling share the same birthday (July 31).

J.K. Rowling slightly based 11-year-old Hermione on herself at the same age. She even made Hermione’s patronus her favorite animal, an otter.

40 versions of Salazar Slytherin’s infamous locket had to be created to accommodate Harry and Ron’s failed attempts to destroy it during the filming.

The actress who played Moaning Myrtle (Shirley Henderson) was 37 years old during the second film.

Daniel Radcliffe went through roughly 160 pair of glasses.

Harry Potter’s lighting bolt scar has been applied by makeup teams approximately 5,800 times.

Hedwig was played by three male owls in the movies.

Daniel Radcliffe (who plays Harry Potter) was payed 80 times more for the last Potter film than the first.

What is Chemical Engineering?

A chemical engineer is someone who knows enough physics/mechanics to confuse a chemist, enough chemistry to confuse a physicist/mechanical engineer and enough mathematics to confuse himself.

In Layman's term, Chemical Engineer is a guy that helps in production of things at a large level. He is one who studies processes, design a plant and equipment and also runs the plant.  

Suppose you have a secret Lemonade recipe which is admired by everyone. Now you want to commercialize it i.e. you want to sold it at a very large level. Now the process will involve many steps like taking juice out of lemons, mixing that juice with water, mixing sugar and your secret ingredient etc. You obviously has no idea how to do it? So a chemical or process engineer will come to your rescue. It will design a process  i.e. he/she will tell you that first crushing of Lemons will take place then juice will be mixed in a agitator tank etc. After that he/she will design equipment for this process. When plant is setup, he/she will also help to run it. 

Thus Chemical engineering is most exciting field to major in. It beautifully blends physics, chemistry and mathematics. A chemical engineer is somewhat between mechanical engineer and chemist having a sound knowledge of mathematics. 

Chemical engineers SCALE UP the chemical reactions performed in laboratory to produce the desired chemical on a industrial scale (in a economical way). Now to do this one has to have a understanding of - micro, meso and macro scale processes, which is taught during the course. 

Interestingly a lot of mathematics is involved, than one would normally think, while studying chemical engineering. People generally think that Chemical engineering involves a lot of chemistry but it is not so. Thermodynamics and Kinetics are covered extensively. Reaction engineering (which is covered kinetics) makes it different from other branches of engineering. 

Broadly Chemical Engineering can be classified into 2 groups - 

• Designing, manufacturing and operating plants and related machinery and processes - Chemical Process Engineers.  
• Development of new or adapted substances for products ranging from pharma industry to automobiles to cosmetic industry - Chemical Product Engineers. 

Chemical engineers basically study mass,heat and momentum balance. There are wide array of subjects which a chemical engineer studies during his undergrad. The wide spectrum of specialization makes this a very promising field in term of careers.  They usually specializes in one of the following subjects - 

• Process Modelling and Simulation
• Computer Aided Design
• Reaction Engineering
• Control and Optimization
• Safety and Hazard Analysis
• Computational Fluid dynamics, Rheology, Fluid Mechanics
• Separation Processes
• Thermodynamics
• Bioprocess and food engineering
• Pollution and control
• Nanotechnology
• Material Science
• Bio-engineering
• Transport Phenomena
• Catalysis 
• Energy Studies

Thus chemical engineer touch everyone's life right from start of the day till night. So if you want to make new products and help mankind chemical engineering is right for you. 

Game of Thrones memes, jokes,funny images, rage comics etc.

The fever of Game of Thrones is getting high day by day. The internet is filled with lot of funny images and memes of GOT. We have explored a little- 

Some memorable Game of Throne quotes

Game of Thrones is most popular TV series nowadays. The show is known for its excellent story. Today we bring you some original quotes from Game of Throne characters - 

                       When you play Game of Thrones , You WIN or You DIE

Never Forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength.Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you - Tyrion Lannister

What do we say to the God of death? NOT TODAY

Can a man be brave if He's afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave. 

Power is a curious thing. Three great men. A king, a priest and a rich man. Between them stands a common sellsword. Each great man bids the sellsword kill theother two. Who lives, who dies? Power resides where man believe it resides; its a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow. 

Always keep your foes confused.If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are lie to do next - Peter Baelish. 

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” 

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.” 

“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.” 

Interesting One-Liners on India

They say India is a land where even exceptions run into millions. Dedicated to this country are many one-liners which are not only funny but also reveals true side of India. 

• The only country where people fight to be termed 'backward'.

• A country where on the streets, everyone seems to be in a hurry but no one is ever on time.

• India: Here people wear helmets to save their pockets, not life.

• Being one in a million in India means that there are 1241 Indians just like you!

• In India, you don't cast your vote, you vote your caste.

• China grows because of its government, India grows despite it.

• India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one, in an advanced state of decay.

• The frustrating thing about India is that whatever you can say rightly about India, the opposite is also true.

• IRCTC-> The only place where you won't find reservations.

• An incredible country where Actors are playing cricket, Cricketers are playing politics, Politicians are watching porn and Porn stars are becoming actors.

• If someone asks for a Dirty Cloth to clean something , you are in India.

• One billion people, Two billion faces.

• The funny thing is that in a land of more than a billion people, the topic of sex is still taboo.

• A Tantra Shirt reads "Come to India, a billion people can't be wrong".

• Sarcasm is like electricity, half of India doesn't get it.

• When it comes to taking a stand on world issues, India is like a girl giving mixed signals.

• In India two things never leave you - your caste and your highschool marks.

• India is an Epic Paradox. India, a Rich country with poor people.