Handling of ashes and similar materials can be done best by a __________ conveyor.
A. Flight
B. Drag or slat
C. Belt
D. Ribbon
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Bond crushing law
A. Calls for relatively less energy for the smaller product particles, than does the Rittinger law
B. Is less realistic in estimating the power requirements of commercial crushers
C. States that the work required to form particle of any size from very large feed is proportional to the square root of the volume to surface ratio of the product
D. States that the work required for the crushing is proportional to the new surface created
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Compressibility co-efficient for an absolutely compressible cake is
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Cake resistance is
A. Important in the beginning of filtration
B. Decreased with the time of filtration
C. Independent of pressure drop
D. None of these
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Helical screw agitator is used for
A. Mixing highly viscous pastes
B. Blending immiscible liquids
C. Mixing liquids at very high temperature (> 250 °C)
D. None of these
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In coal washeries, three products namely the valuable product (i.e. clean/washed coal), discarded product (i.e. mineral matter) and an additional concentrated product called __________ is produced.
A. Concentrate
B. Tailing
C. Middling
D. None of these
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Weber number is significant and is concerned with the
A. Solid-liquid mixing
B. Liquid-liquid mixing
C. Dispersion of liquid in liquid
D. Suspension of solid in liquid
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With increase in the pressure drop across the cake, the specific cake resistance for the compressible sludge
A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains constant
D. Increases linearly
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Chance process is used for the
A. Cleaning of coal
B. Concentration of iron ore
C. Concentration of pyrites
D. Water treatment
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What is the critical rotation speed in revolutions per second, for a ball mill of 1.2 m diameter charged with 70 mm dia balls?
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Particle size range in which dust catcher (gravity settling chamber) works most effectively and efficiently is __________ microns.
A. < 5
B. 10 to 25
C. < 74
D. > 1000
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Which of the following relationships between co-efficinet of friction (μ) between rock & roll and a (half of the angle of nip) of the particle to be crushed is correct ?
A. Μ > tan α
B. Μ ≥ tan α
C. Μ > tan 2α
D. Μ ≤ tan α
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Float and sink test determines the possibility of cleaning of coal by a process based on the
A. Gravity separation
B. Wettability
C. Particle shape
D. None of these
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Which of the following represents the plot of filtrate volume versus time for constant pressure filtration?
A. Parabola
B. Straight line
C. Hyperbola
D. Exponential curve
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Wet seiving is employed, when the product contains __________ materials.
A. Abrasive
B. Large quantity of very fine
C. Coarse
D. Non-sticky
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Pick out the correct statement.
A. Plastic chips are called non-cohesive solids
B. Kick's crushing law is, m P = K . ln ( D sb D sa )
C. Communition is a generic term for size enlargement operation
D. Energy required in kwh per ton of product, such that 80% of it passes through a 200 mesh screen, is called 'Work index'
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During filtration operation, the filtrate encounters the resistance of the
A. Filter medium
B. Cake
C. Channel carrying the slurry to the upstream side of the cake and filtrate away from the filter medium
D. All of the above
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Optimum ratio of operating speed to critical speed of a trommel is
A. 0.33-0.45
B. 1.33-1.45
C. 0.5-2
D. 1.5-2.5
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Energy requirement (per unit mass of material crushed/ground) is highest for
A. Jaw crusher
B. Rod mill
C. Ball mill
D. Fluid energy mill
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Which of the following crushers can be considered as a combination of a jaw crusher and a roller crusher?
A. Rod mill
B. Fluid energy mill
C. Gyratory crusher
D. Ball mill
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