All Industrial processes articles – Page 4
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ResourceChallenging Plants: Fertilisers - Practicals
Nutrients essential for plant growth are obtained naturally from soil or other growing media. However, supplies become depleted and fertilisers are needed to increase the availability of nutrients to plants. An understanding of chemical changes is used to making fertilisers, often designed to meet specific requirements such as particular nutrient ...
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ResourceMaking Medicines
An interactive resource from ABPI covering the process of making of medicines from research and development to to manufacture.
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ResourceChallenging Medicines: Making Medicines - Practicals and PPT
These resources show the extent to which everyday medicines can be made in the classroom. Using straightforward processes milk of magnesia and ear drops can all be made.
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ResourceWind power challenge
A link to Practical Action’s wind power challenge and its related resources, where students are tasked with designing and testing a wind power machine that is cable of lifting weighted objects,
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ResourceThermochromic materials
A hidden use of chemistry in everyday life includes thermochromic materials that change colour when exposed to heat or cold
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ResourceNuclear decommissioning: turning waste into wealth
This context/problem-based learning (C/PBL) resource is part of a collection we have commissioned for you to use with your undergraduate students. This 5 credit module is based on the following scenario:Your students will consider the management of a nuclear decommissioning project with a focus on adding value by re-purposing the ...
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ResourceA sticky situation
Use this context-based learning module, based around the chemistry of lubricants, with undergraduate students
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ResourceWaste to wealth videos: Brian Handy
This resource forms part of a collection of videos that aims to provide undergraduate students with insights into what it is like to work in the nuclear industry.In these videos Brian Handy explains what it is like to work in the nuclear industry. He describes some of the challenges, including ...
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ResourceWaste to wealth videos: Peter Ivanov
This resource forms part of a collection of videos that aims to provide undergraduate students with insights into what it is like to work in the nuclear industry.In these videos Peter Ivanov explains what it is like to work as a radiochemist. He describes the role of solvent extraction in ...
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ResourceWaste to wealth videos: Martin Freer
This resource forms part of a collection of videos that aims to provide undergraduate students with insights into what it is like to work in the nuclear industry.In these videos Martin Freer explains what it is like to work in the nuclear industry. He describes some of the issues in ...
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ResourceThermodynamics and equilibria of the Solvay process
A worksheet with questions on the thermodynamics and acid-base aspects of the Solvay process and the uses of the products. This resource is part of the ‘Sodium carbonate – a versatile material’ resources collection, which presents learning material based on the manufacture and uses of sodium carbonate made by the ...
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ResourceManufacturing sodium carbonate by the Solvay process
An account of the Solvay process. This resource is part of the ‘Sodium carbonate – a versatile material’ resources collection, which presents learning material based on the manufacture and uses of sodium carbonate made by the Solvay (ammonia-soda) process.
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ResourceManufacturing sodium carbonate – an overview
An overview for teachers of sodium carbonate and sodium hydrogencarbonate manufacture (especially by the Solvay process) and of the uses of these products. This resource is part of the ‘Sodium carbonate – a versatile material’ resources collection, which presents learning material based on the manufacture and uses of sodium carbonate ...
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ResourceManufacturing sodium carbonate
A worksheet with an account of the Solvay process and questions on the process and raw materials. This resource is part of the ‘Sodium carbonate – a versatile material’ resources collection, which presents learning material based on the manufacture and uses of sodium carbonate made by the Solvay (ammonia-soda) process.
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ResourceMaking biodiesel │16–18 years
Practical work on making a biodiesel, as well as worksheets covering alkenes, infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, calculations on biodiesel yields, ester/biodiesel production and thermochemistry
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ResourceMaking biodiesel │14–16 years
Practical work on a) making a biodiesel and b) comparing it to fossil diesel, as well as a comprehension exercise, and a team exercise
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ResourceThe isolation of the platinum group metals │16–18 years
A comprehension exercise on the solvent extraction of platinum, supported by a demonstration of the partition of iodine between two solvents
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ResourceAspects of the platinum group metals │16–18 years
A teaching and comprehension exercise based on the principles by which the platinum group metals are extracted and separated
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ResourceThe platinum story │14–16 years
A broad picture of how platinum – and other associated rare metals – are mined and refined