If a two phase system is in physical equilibrium; then it means that, the
A. Escaping tendency of each component from the liquid phase to the vapor phase is exactly equal to that from vapor phase to liquid phase
B. Temperature of the liquid phase is equal to that of the vapor phase
C. Total pressure throughout the liquid phase is equal to that throughout the vapor phase
D. All of the above
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Mass transfer co-efficient is directly proportional to DAB 0.5 , according to __________ theory.
A. Penetration
B. Surface renewal
C. Film
D. None of these
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Which of the following provides maximum contact surface for a liquid-vapour system?
A. Packed tower
B. Bubble-cap plate column
C. Seive-plate column
D. Wetted wall column
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In distillation where q is defined as the moles of liquid flow in the stripping section per mole of feed introduced, for saturated liquid feed
A. q > 1
B. q < 1
C. q = 1
D. q = 0
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Pick out the wrong statement.
A. Different solids have different equilibrium moisture curves
B. Total condenser or reboiler is considered equivalent to one theoretical plate in McCabe-Thiele method of theoretical plate calculation for distillation column
C. Heat removal load on cooler remains constant, even with increase of the reflux ratio in a distillation column
D. Even a forced draft cooling tower can not cool water below the wet bulb temperature
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A slurry is to be dried to produce flaky solid. Which dryer would you recommend?
A. Spray dryer
B. Drum dryer
C. Rotary dryer
D. Dielectric dryer
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Channelling is most severe
A. In towers packed with stacked packing
B. In towers packed randomly with crushed solids
C. In dumped packing of regular units
D. At very high liquid flow rate
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CO2 can be absorbed by
A. Hot cupric oxide
B. Heated charcoal
C. Cold Ca(OH)2
D. Alumina
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Pick out the correct statement.
A. The slope of the stripping line is always less than unity
B. For a given separation in a binary distillation column, with increase in reflux ratio (above the minimum reflux ratio), the fixed cost of the distillation column first increases and then decreases
C. In Ponchon-Savarit method of no. of theoretical plate determination, the stripping and rectifying operating lines are vertical at total reflux
D. Kremsor-Brown-Souder's equation is used to calculate the efficiency of a plate tower
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Diffusion in concentrated solutins differs from that in dilute solutions, because of the change in the __________ with the concentration of the solution.
A. Degree of ideality
B. Viscosity
C. Both A & B
D. Neither A nor B
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Only small amount of evaporation of water produces large cooling effects because of its
A. Large latent heat
B. Low viscosity
C. Small latent heat
D. None of these
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For the same system, if the same liquid used in an absorber is decreased, the tower height will
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Remain unaffected
D. Decrease or increase ; depends on the type of liquid
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In extractive distillation, solvent is
A. Added to alter the relative volatility of the mixture
B. Of high volatility
C. Present in overhead stream
D. Of high viscosity to give high tray efficiency
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Absorption accompanied by heat evolution results in
A. Increased capacity of the absorber
B. Increase in equilibrium solubility
C. Decrease in equilibrium solubility
D. None of these
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Molecular seives are regenerated by heating to __________ °C.
A. < 150
B. 200-330
C. > 500
D. > 1000
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The rate of solid-liquid extraction is limited by the
A. Phase change of the solute as it dissolves in the solvent
B. Diffusion of the solute through the solvent in the pores to the outside of the particle
C. Diffusion of the solute from the solution in contact with the particle to the main bulk of the solution
D. All of the above
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For a single component absorber, the operating line is straight only when plotted in term of __________ units.
A. Partial pressure
B. Mole ratio
C. Mole fraction
D. None of these
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The binary diffusivity in gases and liquids vary respectively as
A. T 2 3 and T
B. T and T 2 3
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The operation involved when the soluble material is largely on the surface of an insoluble solid and is merely washed off by the solvent is called
A. Decoction
B. Percolation
C. Elutriation or elution
D. None of these
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Sides of equilateral-triangular co-ordinates (on which ternary liquid system is plotted) represent
A. A pure component
B. A binary mixture
C. A ternary mixture
D. Partially miscible ternary system
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