chemical engineering Mcqs
2151. Pick out the wrong statement ?
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A. Constant pressure distillation cannot separate an Azeotropic mixture

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C. Flash distillation is practised on wide spread scale in petroleum refinery

D. The relative volatility of a binary mixture at Azeotropic composition is unity

E. Relative volatility of a binary mixture changes appreciably with the minor change in
2152. Pick out the wrong statement?
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A. 1 Nm3 of dry air is lighter than 1Nm3 of humid air

B. The mass diffusivity, the thermal diffusivity and the eddy momentum diffusivity are the same

C. An Azeotropic mixture of two liquids has boiling point higher than either of them, when it

D. ws negative deviation from Raoults Law

E. fusivity

F. NSc = NPr= 1

2156. Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to leaching ?
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A. Very high temperature is not needed for the leaching of sugar beet

B. Door classifier can be used for leaching of coarse solids

C. Fine solids cannot be leached in a Pachuca tank

D. Vegetable seeds can be leached in either of Bollman extractor, Rotocel or Kennedy extractor

2159. Fenske equation for determining the minimum number of theoretical stages in distillation column holds good, when the_________________?
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A. Multi-component distillation is involved

B. Mixture (to be separated) shows positive deviation from ideality

C. Relative volatility is reasonably constant

D. Mixture (to be separated) shows negative deviation from ideality

2160. Priming in a distillation column_________________?
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A. Is desirable from point efficiency consideration

B. Reduces the overall pressure drop

C. Is characterised by the presence of foam throughout the space between trays

D. Results from very low gas velocity

2163. _______________ column is used in gas absorption process ?
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A. Packed

B. Wetted wall

C. Sieve/perforated tray

D. Bubble cap

2164. The amount of steam required per unit quantity of distillate in case of steam distillation will be reduced by __________________?
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A. Raising the temperature

B. Lowering the total pressure

C. Both A. and B.

D. Neither A. nor B.

2166. Batch tray dryers suffers from the disadvantage of______________________?
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A. Non-uniform & low production rate

B. High labour cost & low heat economy

C. High maintenance cost

D. All a, b & c

2167. The expression, ln(F/W) = ?xF xW [dx/y* x)] is_____________________?
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A. Differential distillation equation

B. For NtoG in absorption for dilute mixture

C. Slope of q-line in McCabe-Thiele method

D. For relative volatility

2170. Pick out the wrong statement ?
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A. A horizontal line on the humidity chart indicates the temperature changes at constant molal

B. idity

C. When water is cooled from 80 to 70C by exposure to the air with a wet bulb temperature of

D. C, then both the approach & the range would be 10C

E. For unsaturated air-water vapor mixture at atmospheric conditions, the wet bulb temperature

F. p; adiabatic cooling lines are the same

2171. Rate of leaching increases with increasing______________________?
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A. Pressure

B. Size of the solid

C. Temperature

D. Viscosity of solvent

2172. Stefans law describes the mass transfer by________________?
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A. Diffusion

B. Bulk flow

C. Both A. & B.

D. Neither A. nor B.

2173. For the same process conditions, the reflux ratio of an unlagged distillation column___________________?
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A. Decreases in winter

B. Increases in summer

C. None of these

D. Increases in winter
2174. The term cooling range in a cooling tower refers to the difference in the temperature of____________________?
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A. Cold water leaving the tower and the wet bulb temperature of the surrounding air

B. Hot water entering the tower and the cooled water leaving the tower

C. Hot water entering the tower and the wet bulb temperature of the surrounding air

D. None of these

2177. Which of the following equipments is not used for gas dispersion ?
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A. Bubble cap tray towers

B. Agitated vessels

C. Perforated sieve tray towers

D. Spray towers
2179. Small dia distillation column can be a _________________________?
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A. Sieve tray

B. Bubble cap

C. Packed column

D. Any of these

2180. Use of raschig rings in place of crushed stones as packing in packed beds (other things being same) ?
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A. Increases pressure drop, increases surface area

B. Decreases pressure drop, decreases surface area

C. Increases pressure drop, decreases surface area

D. Decreases pressure drop, increases surface area
2182. The caking of crystals can be prevented by _____________________?
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A. Maintaining high critical humidity

B. Maintaining low critical humidity

C. Coating the product with inert material

D. Both A. and C.
2187. In McCabe-Thiele method, at infinite reflux ratio________________?
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A. The overhead product is minimum

B. Both the operating lines coincide with diagonal

C. Both A. and B.

D. Neither A. nor B.

2189. Molecular sieves are porous____________________?
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A. Alumina

B. Synthetic zeolites crystals/metal alumino-silicates

C. Silica

D. None of these

2191. Under conditions of flooding in packed tower, the gas pressure drop___________________?
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A. Remain constant

B. Is maximum

C. Decreases rapidly

D. Increases rapidly

2193. In case of a desorber (stripper), the________________?
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A. Temperature remains unaffected

B. Temperature always increases

C. Operating line always lies below the equilibrium curve

D. Operating line always lies above the equilibrium curve

2194. What is the reflux ratio at total reflux ?
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A. Data insufficient

B. Unity

C. Zero

D. Infinity
2197. Which of these columns incurs the lowest pressure drop ?
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A. Bubble plate column

B. Pulse column

C. Packed column (with dumped packing)

D. Packed column (with stacked packing)
2198. Raoults law applies to the___________________?
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A. Solvents

B. Non-ideal solution only

C. All liquid solutions

D. Non-volatile solute

2199. On addition of solute in the solvent, the ______________ of the solution decreases ?
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A. Boiling point

B. Freezing point

C. Vapour pressure

D. Both B. and C.
2200. (NSh/NRe.NSc) is termed in mass transfer operation as the __________________________?
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A. Momentum diffusivity

B. Stanton number

C. Peclet number

D. Thermal diffusivity