As a chemical engineer I know
The streamlines of fluid flow
The laws of mass and energy
And the reactions behind chemistry
Material balances begin the journey
Accounting mass even from chimney
Energy balances complete the basic design
The feasibility is ready to sign or resign
I admire the catalyst's art
Making slow reactions go fast
I control process with care
Keeping plant safe while flare.
Heat transfer helps conserve energy
And thermodynamics improving exergy
Mass Transfer improving separation
With high quality appreciation
Distillation, Mixing, and Reactors too,
Are essential tools for all I do.
From oil and gas to food and glass
Chemical engineers make products high class
From desalination to cleaner air
I engineer solutions everywhere
Protecting people, the land, and the ocean
Through safe chemical plant operation
And last but not the least
Economics is a major beast
No matter a chemical process large or small
Behind it chemical engineers stand tall
508.
Learn Natural Science!
Learn Natural Science! It has lots of branches
Distinguish them from Pseudo-Sciences
In Life Sciences, we study Human Biology
As well as Zoology & Botany
Through Earth Sciences, we learn earth's wonders
Its systems & forms on lands & waters
Physical Science is of course about Physics
But it also includes Chemistry & Thermodynamics
Technology amazes us with human inventions
From past to present from different nations!
-09/05/2016
(Dumarao)
*GEN Poems
Someone would rather not speak the truth
After weighing the cons and pros
They're exquisite egoists
Someone dares to bet the causes
Inspectors weighing the pros and cons
Restrict viewers or ban the speakers
Since then, no truth matters
Only compliment words or praise heard
This is how a law of thermodynamics
Works for all communities
If a system dissipates and disintegrates
As it loosened balance, so does
An interest- congested community cease
The inveracity beauty is on the surface
While leaving bugs inside numerous
Thermal air currents in physics are primarily explained by the Second Law of Thermodynamics which states that heat always flows from a hotter to a colder region, causing the warmer air to rise and cooler air to sink, creating convection currents.
A murmuration
Gliding along on thermals
Starlings ascending
I
Think of a huge pond or lake. It's been raining. While ripples fall and send their concentric circles further and further, you no longer see individual ripples and circles. Although it's now a confusing criss-cross of space and time, you can track back to the individual raindrop that started each ripple - backwards in time. That's the way to understand what was before each Big Bang.
II
Why would there be only One Big Bang? One singular event that altered the thermal equilibrium? Especially since we have the Second Law of thermodynamics implies the universe becoming more and more random from where it began. So, going backwards in time we get to:
a. No randomness
b. No time ( the universe forgets both time/speed and even how big it is).
c. The analogy of raindrops hitting the lake surface ( space-time canvas?) may now replace the raindrops with BLACK HOLES. The black hole in our Milky Way will collide with the ripples of another black hole in an expanding universe, where the "ripples" also keep going out further and further. But so are the other "ripples" in the universe. Hence, big Bangs.
It was another grey stone winter.
Menacing Queen Beira terrorized the countryside.
We traveled the winding cobblestone way,
the grey stone winter way.
We believed in anything to get us through the murk,
anything to overlook our disintegration.
We sought patterns, convictions, decrees within the chaos
until all our candles blew out.
We believed in believing and we thought it worked,
so it must have.
When the Queen ended her wrath, we felt the warm balm
of spring restoring our faith in life and order
but the second law of thermodynamics was not reversible.
Our animated order of life expended more energy,
By delaying decay we paradoxically tended toward it,
Like snakes, we shed our skins,
transforming, reforming until death.
The impressions lingering from our consciousness
seek new venues,
we know not the dimensions of these new spectral landscapes.
Not created, not destroyed, our energy transcends
only by the menacing queen.
I do not want to light this candle this night
yet I must light this candle
I light this candle with a heavy heart
and wish this candle was brighter
as I wish everything was
as I hold this candle for you
it feels so heavy
but looking at it
makes everything brighter
even for just an instant
that instant we all have and need
as I watch this candle go out
I know that while I can no longer
see the flame of life
I feel like I have lost its light
and yet I know that flame
that eternal energy
Is still somewhere
(if you need proof, please see the the first law of thermodynamics and study entropy
I leave you now with this because I have to pee)
Wasted Energy
Darkness descends like a ribbon unfurling
As astronauts in space orbit the churning Earth
And observe the lit orb that is the world below.
Likened to a planet on fire in sulphurous yellow,
Though impressive to see, it is a waste of energy
To watch as photons flow at the flick of a switch
In the night when people should be sleeping.
Light pollution! Conservation is sorely lacking.
(The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy is constant;
it is neither created nor destroyed but can be converted.)
Dams constructed flood lands to create reservoirs;
Waterfalls are shut down, and rivers diverted,
Destroying land use and animal habitat.
Fossil fuel stations and nuclear reactors are built,
Which pollute the air and swell waste dump sites
With radioactive and other toxic materials.
Fields are littered with windmills, solar panels, and mirrors
Consuming yield acreage and resources and killing birds
To generate electricity so that humans can live comfortably
In an electronic, surreal, guiltless, controlled environment.
thermodynamics
fixed our furnace perfectly
and last night the same
thermodynamics
kept the room perfectly warm
such that later dreams
of said encounter
between the present and now
in which now did win
with respect to what
momentary thoughts
of a present might
symbolize
with regards experience...
photo shop thoughts
do sell the now short
but now being the present
thermodynamic
memories of you
will stay with me forever
as present as now
stan sand
WASTELAND?
‘Waste not!’ is an admonition
Scribed on wood, stone and ceramics
Made an impossible mission
By the second law of thermodynamics
“Things Go From Bad To Worse”
the Second Law of Thermodynamics
“Spirit Is Not A Thing”
—the First Law of Eternal Life
Listening To David Berlinski: April, 2018
Standing tough, no matter the outcome. Sister Jean's 98, good to be backed and a school like Loyola Chicago, well they got some talented players, and now they are going into the final four.
Fight the good fight, stand up for the little guy, all this and more.
This kind of salutary, we come we go, they came they've gone; like an awakening in sleepy town, like a moonshot, we made it to the moon, someone took a picture of Earth, just what it
looks like from space.
I rubbed up against the butt of dog high upon the heavens and flipped the Earth's polarity
so there was this rise and shine with nothing else to say, it's always the same, it's all gone mad
until you believe, what is it you believe
Thermodynamics: I wear this tight fitting spandex under my clothes, to help me run, like thermal underwear I would wear as a kid on the coldest of days.
Did you ever notice that when you wear thermal underwear underneath, that if you stand near anything, it reflects your own bodies warmth.
Peace!
I, Davis, am the founding father of Chemical Engineering
It is something that many new scientists find endearing
The American Institute of Chemical Engineering started
When jobs, which I helped create, came and imparted
Unit operations is the Chemical Engineer’s key
To what we are truly desiring and meant to be
Other offsprings of the field are coming nowadays
Process Systems Engineering is one that stays
Bioengineering is another area at which I brought
So many offshoots did I create just by my thought
Chemical thermodynamics sounds hard to do
That is just another thing that I did venture into
This field is growing which I knew it would go
I put everything into it, all that I could know
Have kept an eye out for the difficulty factor
But I have never left this field, I’m not a defector
Russell Sivey
Chemical Engineering is a fluid field to get into
The new advances do yield an interesting view
American Institute of Chemical Engineering started
When the jobs came into fruition and imparted
Unit operations is the Chemical Engineer’s key
Davis is the founding father who coined the lead
Other offsprings of the field are coming nowadays
Process Systems Engineering is one that stays
So does Bioengineering with courses I would enjoy
Some did I venture into, when I was just a boy
Chemical thermodynamics sounds hard to do
That another thing that people must get into
This field sounds difficult, but one I wanted to view
Never did I think it would help create my brew
Russell Sivey
Intoned and on automatic –
almost entirely dialed…
then ordered into sudden
silence.
Inaudible sigh.
Quietly, I rest – for now.
I’ll use the downtime to build up my strength.
Stubborn, how I resent
being put down and willfully ignored.
(Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
Immobile: yet how moving?
A little manipulator
evoking the first law of thermodynamics
(it’s true, even in love)
in my application, to get to work:
“Your emotions aren’t going to evaporate,
you know. Just make the call.”
I love bearing witness to the fight in her.
She loses it just a little every single day.
Sometimes, she throws me.
Maybe I’m astonished, but I don’t break easily.
And, I think, I will, eventually, win.
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