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Engineering and GATE · Chemical Engineering · question 300

Q300

A suspension of glass beads in ethylene glycol has a hindered settling velocity of 1.7 mm/s, while the terminal settling velocity of a single glass bead in ethylene glycol is 17 mm/s. If the Richardson-Zaki hindered settling index is 4.5, the volume fraction of solids in the suspension is

A.
0.1
B.
0.4
C.
0.6
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
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