OAJ B - Unit 7 - What is chemical engineering?

Unit 7.1. – What is chemical engineering?

• Highly sought-after – very popular, in great demand

• Besides that - moreover

• Crucial – fundamental, essential, vital, important

• Curriculum – syllabus

• Full-scale – in real-life size

• To replenish (doplnit) – to return into previous state

• Crops – plant that has being grow on fields

• To decompose – to rot, to decay

• Volatile (těkavý) – unstable

• To foresee – to predict

• Unit operation – basic step in a process

• To pulverize – to crush into powder/dust (rozdrtit, rozmělnit v prach)

• Conveyor belt – a continuous moving strip for transporting objects

• Plant -výrobní továrna, závod, strojní zařízení

• Subsequently – následovně

• Therefore – proto, tudíž

Unit 7.2 - Chemical engineering – jobs and processes

• Project - Temporary effort to create a unique product/service/result

• Project management - a process of steering a project from the start through its lifecycle. The main objective is to complete a project within the established goals of time, budget and quality.

  • It has 5 phases:

    1. Initiation - stakeholder approvals, documentation pertaining (vztahovat se k) to project needs, rough estimates of time and resources

    2. Planning - detailed project plan, budget baseline, project scheduling, scope document

    3. Execution (uskutečnění) - management of other resources (materials). Output of this phase are project DELIVERABLES

    4. monitoring and controlling - project progress reports

    5. closing – celebration and reflection

• Supplier – dodavatel

• Adherence - dodržování

• To span – zahrnovat, pokrývat

• Compliance – vyhovění, soulad

• Workforce – pracovní síla

• Deliverable – doručitelný, připravený k dodání

• Feedstock - material used for feeding animals/raw materials (similar to livestock)

• Viable/workable/feasible (životaschopný, realizovatelný) – able to work as intended or able to succeed

• Viability - the ability to work, function, live

• Scarce (vzácný, nedostatkový) - scarce resources – deficient/not plentiful

• A measure of profit – return on its investments

• Bankable – profitable

• Constrains – limitations

• Impact – a major effect

• Follow-up – a continuation, further examination of something