Pick out the wrong statement.
(A) In drying a solid containing moisture above the critical moisture content
the number of degrees of freedom is 2
(B) Sherwood number in mass transfer corresponds to Nusselt number in
heat transfer and Schmidt number to Prandtl number
(C) Forced convection is relatively more effective in increasing the rate of
mass transfer, if Schmidt number is larger
(D) Hot gases at moderate pressure are usually in the shell side of shell and
tube heat exchangers. At higher pressure, however, it is customary to put gas in
the tube side

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Answer :

(C) Forced convection is relatively more effective in increasing the rate of
mass transfer, if Schmidt number is larger

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