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VOCABULARIO
Pronombres
Verbos irregulares
Estos verbos no siguen una regla determinada, por lo que hay que aprenderlos
de memoria. Al ser numerosos, entendemos que lo más práctico es irlos
estudiando poco a poco (algunos de ellos apenas se utilizan).
CHEMICAL PROCESS
In a scientific sense, a chemical process is a method or means of somehow
changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds. Such a chemical
process can occur by itself or be caused by an outside force, and involves a
chemical reaction of some sort. In an "engineering" sense, a chemical process is a
method intended to be used in manufacturing or on an industrial scale (see
Industrial process) to change the composition of chemical(s) or material(s), usually
using technology similar or related to that used in chemical plants or the chemical
industry.
Neither of these definitions are exact in the sense that one can always tell
definitively what is a chemical process and what is not; they are practical
definitions. There is also significant overlap in these two definition variations.
Because of the inexactness of the definition, chemists and other scientists use the
term "chemical process" only in a general sense or in the engineering sense.
However, in the "process (engineering)" sense, the term "chemical process" is
used extensively. The rest of the article will cover the engineering type of chemical
processes.
Although this type of chemical process may sometimes involve only one step, often
multiple steps, referred to as unit operations, are involved. In a plant, each of the
unit operations commonly occur in individual vessels or sections of the plant called
units. Often, one or more chemical reactions are involved, but other ways of
changing chemical (or material) composition may be used, such as mixing or
separation processes. The process steps may be sequential in time or sequential
in space along a stream of flowing or moving material; see Chemical plant. For a
given amount of a feed (input) material or product (output) material, an expected
amount of material can be determined at key steps in the process from empirical
data and material balance calculations. These amounts can be scaled up or down
to suit the desired capacity or operation of a particular chemical plant built for such
a process. More than one chemical plant may use the same chemical process,
each plant perhaps at differently scaled capacities. Chemical processes like
distillation and crystallization go back to alchemy in Alexandria, Egypt.
Oxidation
Reduction
Hydrogenation
Dehydrogenation
Hydrolysis
Hydration
Dehydration
Halogenation
Nitrification
Sulfonation