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Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. ^[e]

Chemical engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products ^[e]
Thermodynamics [r]: The statistical description of the properties of molecular systems ^[e]

Enthalpy [r]: Energy function of thermodynamic system equal to internal energy plus pV (pressure times volume). ^[e]
Entropy (thermodynamics) [r]: Thermodynamic variable S appearing in the second law of thermodynamics. ^[e]
Flash evaporation [r]: The partial vaporization that occurs when a saturated liquid stream undergoes a reduction in pressure by passing through a throttling valve or other throttling device. ^[e]
Gas [r]: One of the major states of matter (i.e., gas, liquid, solid and plasma). ^[e]
Gas compressor [r]: A machine that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. ^[e]
Isentropic process [r]: Thermodynamic process without change of entropy. ^[e]
Isenthalpic process [r]: Add brief definition or description
Joule-Thomson effect [r]: The increase or decrease in the temperature of a real gas (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is allowed to expand freely at constant enthalpy (meaning that no heat is transferred to or from the gas, and no external work is extracted from the gas). ^[e]
Rankine cycle [r]: Add brief definition or description
Steam turbine [r]: Add brief definition or description
Vapor-compression refrigeration [r]: One of the many available refrigeration systems and very probably the most widely used system. ^[e]