(April 2014 ChE Licensure Examination)

I. Physical and Chemical Principles (100 items) 10.) 2 problems on analytical chemistry
a.) Back titration: Titrant: FeSO4
1.) What are the oxidation products of dopamine? b.) Solving for the pH of the solution, volume of the titrant at the start, at
equivalence point, at the end point
2.) In a cathode ray tube, a current is applied for a certain period of time.
How many electrons passed through? (2 - 3 items) 11.) 1 problem on physical chemistry
Ideal gas problem and Virial equation
3.) Wastewater treatment problems (5 - 7 items)
12.) What is the advantage of global warming in the North America?
d(m) = (Fi)(Ci) - (Fo)(Co) + (k)(C)(V) a.) Mosquitoes will die etc.
------- b.) Floods in deserts
d(t) c.) something to deal with crops
d.) All of the above
Given with the standard concentration of effluent, value of k, and
conditions of the ingoing and outgoing streams, at steady state, did the 13.) Given a 2gm sample of uranium where 0.27gm is found to be Lead. It is
effluent concentration passed within the standards? (Choices: yes; no; said that all the lead came from the degradation of uranium. Given that
yes with exception; none of the above) the half life of uranium is ##########yrs, what is the approximate age of
the earth?
4.) Color of a given wavelength 14.) 5 questions on balancing the chemical reaction
15.) Colligative Properties. Calculate the molecular weight of a certain solute
5.) Dodecane (question repeated twice) using benzene as the solvent.
a.) State (gas, liquid, solid)? (Answer: liquid) 16.) Breaking down of large isotopes into smaller isotopes? (Answer: nuclear
b.) Is it ignitable? (Answer: yes) fission)
c.) Soluble in water? (Answer: no) 17.) Location of ozone layer? (Answer: stratosphere)
d.) Soluble in hexane? (Answer: yes) 18.) Octet rule? (Choices: Fermi; Meitner; Bohr; Lewis)
19.) Isomer of methane
6.) Physics problems 20.) Hybridization
a.) Required: amount of fuel needed 21.) Contribution of Adolf von Baeyer (Answer: Barbiturate)
b.) Required: speed of electron? or number of electrons? 22.) 2 questions asking for the chemical formula of a given common name
c.) Given with initial velocity, final velocity, time, coefficient of kinetic
friction, how much is the work done 23.) Modified true or false
d.) Given with an initial velocity of an electron, time, find acceleration Statement: …
velocity? Reasoning: …

7.) Organic chemistry (question repeated twice) 24.) Periodic Trends (2 - 3 questions)
Given with 2 reagents, what are the products?
( 1-butanol added with (1) H2SO4 and water (2) K2Cr2O7 )

8.) Asking for the amount of A, G, C and T in the sample DNA of a sheep.
Given with percentages of A, G, C and T

9.) Product of 2 amino acids

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II. Chemical Engineering Principles (100 items) 4.) Chemical Engineering Kinetics
(CSTR; reversible reaction; feed concentration of reactants: A and B)
A. Terminologies (37 items) a.) What is the final concentration of B when the feed is mixed?
1.) What can be recovered by ion exchange? (Answer: Ammonia) b.) What is the concentration of A in the products?
2.) Thermocouple uses this effect to measure temperature. (Answer: c.) What is the flowrate of the feed at steady state?
Seebeck effect)
3.) Definition of white noise 5.) Fluidization Problem
4.) Definition of anticipatory control a.) Mass of solids
5.) Who coined the term 'Membrane Separation' (Answer: Lacey) b.) Pressure drop
6.) Program that is commonly used in process design c.) Minimum fluid velocity
7.) What type of programming is used in the scheduling of oil tanks
(Choices: linear programming; nonlinear programming; …; …) 6.) Filtration Using Plate and Frame (Constant Rate)
8.) Heat transfer is not dependent on? a.) Mass of cake
(Choices: temperature; area; feed rate; ...) b.) Thickness of cake
9.) Material used in making bulletproof vest (Answer: aromatic c.) Optimum thickness of cake at a new pressure drop
polyamide)
10.) Question about digital control system 7.) Gas Absorption Problem
11.) Purpose of Sodium Hexametaphosphate in boiler operations 97.3% H2SO4 is to be concentrated to 98% by absorption using a gas
12.) Ultrasonic flowmeter can measure the average velocity using the with 8% SO3 entering at 28 lbmol*hr^(-1). A certain % H2SO4 solutionn is
frequency shift from? (Answer: Doppler effect) used as make up H2SO4.
13.) Also known as earth wax (Answer: Carnauba Wax) a.) Amount of 97.3% H2SO4 in the feed
14.) What industry can provide energy to itself? b.) Amount of 98% H2SO4 produced
(Choices: biomass; sugar; petroleum; ...) c.) Amount of makeup H2SO4

B. Situational Problems (21 problems with 3 questions each)
1.) Drying Problem
a.) Drying rate during constant rate period
b.) Drying rate during falling rate period
c.) Total time of drying
8.) Enthalpy Problem
a.) Enthalpy of reactants from 600 deg C to 25 deg C
b.) Enthalpy of products from 25 deg C to a certain temperature
c.) Total heat needed
9.) Triple effect, countercurrent thickeners

2.) Sugar Industry Problem 10.) Chemical Engineering Calculation Problem on Distillation
a.) Amount of syrup
b.) Amount of cane 11.) Thermodynamics Problem
c.) Recovery in terms of abs EtOh (abs EtOH is given) a.) What is the final temperature? Given with entropy, initial pressure
and volume; then, compressed constantly at a certain pressure.
3.) Batch Distillation Problem b.) What is delta H
a.) amount of toluene in the distillate c.) What is delta U
b.) amount of the other component in the bottom
c.) percentage of the component in the distillate when 50% of the feed 12.) Adiabatic Compression Problem
is boiled off

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13.) Humidification Problem 11.) A question with the following choices: heroism; altruism; truism; self-
a.) Diameter of the tower sacrifice
b.) Liquid Flowrate 12.) RA 6969
c.) Overall gas coefficient 13.) An elliptical pool is to be made in a 40m by 20m lot with an allowance of
5m on each side, what is the equation of the ellipse?
14.) Ideal Gas Problems (2 problems) 14.) Energy exerted by pushing a 50kg refrigerator to a certain distance.
15.) Thermal expansion problem
15.) Fluid Mechanics Problems 16.) Shear stress problem on punching a hole into a slab
a.) Work required to deliver the fluid from point 1 to 2 17.) Solving for the coefficient of restitution
b.) Brake horsepower 18.) In how many ways can 4 French, 4 German, 3 Filipino, 2 American sit in
c.) Pressure drop in the pump a row where each race must sit together?
19.) Shear strain changes ____? (Choices: shape; area; volume; velocity)
16.) NaOH Production Using Soda Ash 20.) Normal strain changes ____? (Choices: shape, area, volume, velocity)
21.) Solving for deformation/elongation
17.) Chemical Process Industry Problem 22.) Age problems
23.) Time to drain water from a 0.61m cube tank with 2.54cm diameter hole
18.) From Coulson and Richardson, 4-13, compressible gas, mw 13. 24.) Power factor physics problem
Given with kinematic viscosity, 1 m^3 hr^-1 gas, length and diameter of 25.) Rectilinear motion problem
pipe. 26.) What is the probability that A or B could be chosen in a committee of 4
a.) Solve for the pressure drop from a group of 10 people.
b.) What is its Reynolds number 27.) Kidlat plays a lottery. He has 1 dollar to play. Each game costs 1 dollar.
c.) If velocity is doubled, what is the new Reynolds number If he wins a game he earns a dollar. He only plays 5 games whether he
wins or not. He only stops playing when he loses or wins 3 games. In how
III. General Engineering, Laws and Ethics (100 items) many ways can he play?
28.) Clock problem. How long will the long hand and short hand form 180
1.) Total distance traveled by a ball dropped from a height of 18m to the deg for the first time, if it is at 7pm? at 2pm?
ground when it bounces 2/3 of its previous height 29.) Momentum Problem. Given with mass and initial velocity of A and B,
2.) Electric Circuit Problem. Given with total voltage, conductance (with what is the velocity of B after inelastic collision?
power and resistance), inductance (with power and voltage) 30.) Double Declining Balance Problem
3.) Tension of the suspension cable at both ends 31.) Single Declining Balance Problem
4.) To what organization or institution will you go to if you want to report 32.) Salvage Value
someone who performs questionable chemical engineering 33.) A man at a walkalator, with a certain speed, walks at a certain rate. At a
practice (Choices: PRC, PICHE, Ombudsman, Sandigan Bayan) given length of the walkalator, how long will the man reach the end of the
5.) Limit of x^(1*x^(-1)) as x approaches infinity walkalator?
6.) Integration of a function (5 - 7 problems)
7.) Derivative of a function (5 - 7 problems)
8.) One bag contains 1 white and 7 black balls while another bag contains 4
white balls. One bag is randomly chosen. What is the probability that 1
black ball will be picked out?
9.) Chemical Engineering law
10.) RA 9275