chemical engineering Mcqs
8351. Co-efficient of Performance (COP) of a refrigerator is the ratio of the ______________________?
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A. Higher to lower temperature

B. Work required to refrigeration obtained

C. Refrigeration obtained to the work required

D. Lower to higher temperature

8353. Maxwells relation corresponding to the identity, dH = dS = Vdp + ??i dni is_____________________?
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A. (?S/?P)T, ni = (?V/?T)P, ni

B. (?T/?V)S, ni = -(?P/?S)V, ni

C. (?S/?V)T, ni = (?P/?T)V, ni

D. (?T/?P)S, ni = (?V/?S)P, ni
8354. Compressibility factor (i.e., the ratio of actual volume of gas to the volume predicted by ideal gas law) for all gases are_______________?
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A. Always greater than one

B. Same at the same reduced temperature

C. Same at the same reduced pressure

D. Both B. & C
8355. All gases above its inversion temperature, in a throttling process will show__________________?
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A. Either A. or (C)

B. No change in temperature

C. A cooling effect

D. A heating effect
8356. Chemical potential is a/an_____________________?
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A. Extensive property

B. Intensive property

C. Force which drives the chemical system to equilibrium

D. Both B. and C
8358. (?H/?T)P is the mathematical expression for____________________?
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A. Gibbs free energy

B. None of these

C. CV

D. Entropy change

8361. Gibbs-Duhem equation_____________________?
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A. States that n1d?1 + n2d?2 + .njd?j = 0, for a system of definite composition at constant

B. perature and pressure</strong>

C. Finds no application in gas-liquid equilibria involved in distillation

D. None of these

E. Applies only to binary systems

8362. For organic compounds, group contribution method can be used for the estimation of _____________________?
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A. Thermal conductivity

B. Specific gravity

C. Specific volume

D. Critical properties
8365. The expression for entropy change given by, ?S = nR ln (P2/P1), holds good for___________________?
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A. Cooling of a real gas

B. Reversible isothermal volume change

C. Expansion of a real gas

D. Heating of an ideal gas

8366. Work done is a____________________?
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A. Property of the system

B. State description of a system

C. Point function

D. Path function
8368. The principle applied in liquefaction of gases is_____________________?
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A. Adiabatic expansion

B. Joule-Thomson effect

C. Both A. and B

D. Neither A. nor B

8370. Which is not constant for an ideal gas ?
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A. (?V/?T)P

B. (?P/?V)V

C. All (A), B. & (C)

D. (?P/?V)T
8371. The necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium between two phases is_________________?
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A. The chemical potential of each component should be same in the two phases

B. The pressure should be same in the two phases

C. The concentration of each component should be same in the two phases

D. The temperature of each phase should be same

8373. Entropy of the system decreases, when_______________?
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A. Snow melts into water

B. A gas expands spontaneously from high pressure to low pressure

C. Water is converted into ice

D. Both B. & C
8379. Which of the following processes cannot be made reversible even under ideal condition of operation ?
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A. Compression of air in a compressor

B. Expansion of steam in a turbine

C. All (A), B. & (C)

D. Free expansion of a gas
8380. Pick out the undesirable property for a good refrigerant ?
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A. High viscosity

B. Large latent heat of vaporisation

C. Low freezing point

D. High thermal conductivity

8383. Partial molar free energy of an element A in solution is same as its__________________?
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A. Chemical potential

B. Activity co-efficient

C. Fugacity

D. Activity

8385. Which of the following has the minimum value of COP for a given refrigeration effect ?
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A. Vapour-compression process with a reversible expansion engine

B. Air refrigeration cycle

C. Reverse Carnot cycle

D. Ordinary vapour-compression cycle

8386. (?E/?T)V is the mathematical expression for____________________?
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A. None of these

B. CV

C. Enthalpy change

D. Free energy change

8387. In a turbine, the fluid expands almost_________________?
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A. Isothermally

B. None of these

C. Isobarically

D. Adiabatically
8395. In case of a solution (not of a solid in a liquid), whose total volume is more than the sum of volumes of its components in their pure states, solubility is__________________?
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A. Unchanged by the pressure change

B. Independent of the temperature

C. Decreased with the increase in pressure

D. Increased with the increase in pressure

8396. Pick out the correct statement?
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A. A process is irreversible as long as ? S for the system is greater than zero

B. mation of the compound from its reactants</strong>

C. If an insoluble gas is passed through a volatile liquid placed in a perfectly insulated container,

D. The mechanical work done by a system is always equal to?P.dV

E. temperature of the liquid will increase

F. The heat of formation of a compound is defined as the heat of reaction leading to the
8400. dW and dq are not the exact differential, because q and W are__________________?
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A. State functions

B. Path functions

C. Intensive properties

D. Extensive properties