Moisture contained by a substance in excess of the equilibrium moisture is called the __________ moisture.
A. Unbound
B. Free
C. Critical
D. Bound
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Moisture content of a substance when at equilibrium with a given partial pressure of the vapour is called the __________ moisture.
A. Free
B. Unbound
C. Equilibrium
D. Bound
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Moisture in a substance exerting an equilibrium vapour pressure less than that of pure liquid at the same temperature is called the __________ moisture.
A. Bound
B. Unbound
C. Critical
D. None of these
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Moisture in a solid exerting an equilibrium vapour pressure equal to that of the pure liquid at the same temperature is called the __________ moisture.
A. Unbound
B. Critical
C. Free
D. Bound
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Diameter of raschig rings used in packed tower in industry is normally around __________ inches.
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An example of elutioh is
A. Separation of uranium oxide from its ore by H2 SO4 in a Pachuca tank
B. Separation of sugar from sugar beet by hot water
C. Dissolution of tannin out of tree barks by water
D. Recovery of vegetable oils from seeds
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Pick out the correct statement.
A. Bound moisture is removed during constant rate drying period
B. Free moisture is removed during falling rate drying period
C. The sum of free moisture and equilibrium moisture in a solid is called the critical moisture
D. The driving force for mass transfer in a wet solid is its free moisture content
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Dry bulb temperature of unsaturated air is more than its __________ temperature.
A. Dew point
B. Wet bulb
C. Both A & B
D. Neither A nor B
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In a packed bed absorption column, the channelling will be noted by the
A. Increase in flow rate
B. Sharp drop in pressure drop
C. Sharp rise in pressure drop
D. None of these
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Condensation of a vapour-gas mixture just begins, when (where, p = partial pressure of the vapour, P = vapour pressure of the liquid)
A. p = P
B. p >> P
C. p < P
D. p << P
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Relative volatility does not change appreciably with the change in
A. Temperature
B. Vapour pressure of either component
C. Total pressure
D. None of these
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Leaching of sugar from sugar beets is done by
A. Hot water
B. Hexane
C. Dilute H2 SO4
D. Lime water
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In extraction, as the temperature increases, the area of hetrogeneity (area covered by binodal curve)
A. Decreases
B. Increases
C. Remains unchanged
D. None of these
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For the gas absorption, the height of a transfer unit, based on the gas phase is given by (G: superficial molar gas velocity, L: superficial molar liquid velocity, FG : mass transfer co-efficient, mols/m2 , a: in-terfacial area per unit volume of tower)
A. F G . a G
B. G .a F G
C. F G G .a
D. F G . G L
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In distillation column design, the McCabe-Thiele procedure is inadequate and a Ponchan-Savarit procedure is needed, when
A. Saturated feed is not used
B. An azeotrope forms
C. The latent heat of vaporisation of the more and less volatile components are greatly different
D. A total condenser is used
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Cox chart is useful in the design of
A. Distillation column
B. Evaporator
C. Dryer
D. Crystalliser
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The Schmidt number which is defined as, μ/ρ D, is the ratio of the
A. Momentum diffusivity to the mass dif-fusivity
B. Thermal diffusivity to the mass diffusivity
C. Momentum diffusivity to the thermal diffusivity
D. None of these
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In a packed tower, the value of HETP equals HTUOG , when the equilibrium and the operating lines are (where, HETP = height equivalant to a theoretical plate HTUOG = overall gas phase height of a transfer unit)
A. Straight
B. Parallel
C. Both A & B
D. Neither A nor B
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The film penetration model of mass transfer was enunciated by
A. Gilliland
B. Toor and Marchello
C. Stefan
D. Fick
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Penetration model (theory) for mass transfer was enunciated by
A. Danckwerts
B. Toor and Marchello
C. Higbie
D. Kissinevskii
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