Very tall packed towers are divided into series of beds to
(A) Reduce the overall pressure drop
(B) Avoid channelling
(C) Reduce liquid hold-up
(D) Avoid flooding
Description : The main reason for dividing a tall packed tower into series of small towers is to (A) Minimise the overall pressure drop (B) Avoid flooding (C) Reduce liquid hold up (D) Avoid channelling
Last Answer : (D) Avoid channelling
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) Packed towers are preferred for vacuum operation, because the pressure drop through the packing is less and they (packings) also lessen the ... of liquid, problem of channelling, loading & flooding is generally encountered in packed towers
Last Answer : (C) Diameter of randomly packed tower is normally more than 1.2 metres
Description : Plate towers are preferred to packed towers, when large temperature changes are involved, because of the reason that the (A) Packing may be crushed due to thermal expansion/contraction of the ... C) Viscosity variation of the fluids may cause channelling/flooding (D) None of these
Last Answer : (A) Packing may be crushed due to thermal expansion/contraction of the components of the equipments
Description : Pick out the correct statement. (A) For identical gas flow rates, less pressure drop occurs through a plate tower than through a packed tower (B) Plate column can handle greater liquid loads without flooding than packed ... duty, plate columns weigh less than packed columns (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Last Answer : (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Channelling in a packed tower results from the (A) High pressure drop (B) Maldistribution of liquid (C) Non-uniformity of packing (D) Both (B) and (C)
Last Answer : (D) Both (B) and (C)
Description : 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
Last Answer : (A) In towers packed with stacked packing
Description : The reason for preferring packed towers over plate towers in distillation practice is that the packed tower operation gives (A) Low pressure drop and high hold up (B) High pressure drop and low hold ... C) Low pressure drop and low hold up (D) High pressure drop and high hold up
Last Answer : (C) Low pressure drop and low hold up
Description : 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
Last Answer : (B) Sharp drop in pressure drop
Description : Minimum possible diameter of a packed column is decided mainly bythe (A) Flooding (B) Gas viscosity (C) Liquid density (D) Liquid hold up
Last Answer : (A) Flooding
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) With decrease in feed temperature, the number of plates required for binary distillation decreases for a given L/V' ratio (B) The extraction per unit ... and its crosssection is wider at the bottom (D) Vander wall adsorption is also called chemisorption
Last Answer : (D) Vander wall adsorption is also called chemisorption
Description : Flooding in a distillation column is detected by a sharp (A) Increase in Murphree plate efficiency (B) Decrease in pressure drop (C) Decrease in liquid hold up in the column (D) Increase in pressure drop
Last Answer : (D) Increase in pressure drop
Description : Under conditions of flooding in packed tower, the gas pressure drop (A) Decreases rapidly (B) Increases rapidly (C) Remain constant (D) Is maximum
Last Answer : (D) Is maximum
Description : Use of raschig rings in place of crushed stones as packing in packed beds (other things being same) (A) Increases pressure drop, increases surface area (B) Increases pressure drop, decreases ... (C) Decreases pressure drop, increases surface area (D) Decreases pressure drop, decreases surface area
Last Answer : (C) Decreases pressure drop, increases surface area
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) Critical moisture content is not a property of the material itself (B) A sharp increase in pressure drop gives an indication of the flooding in a ... unity (D) Dehydration of ethyl alcohol is most economically done by molecular distillation at very high vacuum
Last Answer : (D) Dehydration of ethyl alcohol is most economically done by molecular distillation at very high vacuum
Description : Flooding in a vapor-liquid contacting equipment occurs in a tray, when the pressure drop through a tray is __________ the liquid head available in the downcomer. (A) Less than (B) More than (C) Same as (D) Very much less
Last Answer : (B) More than
Description : In a moderately sized packed absorption tower, channelling (which is most severe with stacked packings) can be minimised by taking the ratio of tower diameter to packing diameter (A) > 4 :1 (B) < 8 : 1 (C) > 8:1 (D) < 6:1
Last Answer : (C) > 8:1
Description : For a packed bed reactor; the presence of a long tail in the residence time distribution curve is an indication of: (A) Ideal plug flow (B) Bypass (C) Dead zone (D) Channelling
Last Answer : (C) Dead zone
Description : Which of the following equipments is not used in liquid-liquid extraction? (A) Pachuka tank (B) Agitated vessels (C) Centrifugal extractors (D) Packed towers
Last Answer : (A) Pachuka tank
Description : Which of the following equipments is not used for liquid dispersion? (A) Wetted wall towers (B) Packed towers (C) Venturi scrubbers (D) Agitated vessels
Last Answer : (D) Agitated vessels
Description : Which one of the following devices is not used for both the absorption as well as the liquid-liquid extraction processes? (A) Packed towers (B) Plate towers (C) Spray towers (D) Wetted wall columns
Last Answer : (D) Wetted wall columns
Description : Flooding in a column results due to (A) High pressure drop (B) Low pressure drop (C) Low velocity of the liquid (D) High temperature
Last Answer : (A) High pressure drop
Description : Pick out the wrong statement: (A) Change in barometric pressure does not affect the relative humidity (B) In case of a packed tower, the operating velocity is about half of the ... (D) The equilibrium moisture content of the solid can be reduced by increasing the absolute humidity
Last Answer : (D) The equilibrium moisture content of the solid can be reduced by increasing the absolute humidity
Description : Pick out the correct statement. (A) Ponchan-Savarit method is more accurate than McCabe-Thiele method to determine the number of theoretical stages required for the separation of ... Flash distillation is suitable for separating components which have very close boiling temperature
Last Answer : (A) Ponchan-Savarit method is more accurate than McCabe-Thiele method to determine the number of theoretical stages required for the separation of nonideal binary system by distillation
Description : Out of the following gas-liquid contacting devices, for a given set of operating conditions, gas pressure drop is the least in __________ tower. (A) Wetted wall (B) Bubble cap (C) Perforated tray (D) Packed
Last Answer : (A) Wetted wall
Description : At the same gas flow rate, the pressure drop in a packed tower being irrigated with liquid __________ that in dry packed tower. (A) Is greater than (B) Is lower than (C) Is same as (D) Cannot be predicted as data are insufficient
Last Answer : (A) Is greater than
Description : With increase in the liquid flow rate at a fixed gas velocity in a randomly packed counter current gas-liquid absorption column, the gas pressure drop (A) Decreases (B) Remains unchanged (C) Increases (D) Decreases exponentially
Last Answer : (C) Increases
Description : Use of packed towers for distillation is generally limited to the (A) Small sizes (B) Multi-component distillation (C) High pressure operation (D) Vacuum distillation
Last Answer : (A) Small sizes
Description : Even though bubble cap towers are very effective for humidification operation, they are not used commonly in industries, because of the (A) High evaporation losses of water (B) High pressure drop of the gas (C) Difficulty in its fabrication (D) None of these
Last Answer : (B) High pressure drop of the gas
Description : Operating velocity in a packed tower is usually __________ the flooding velocity. (A) Half (B) Twice (C) Equal to (D) More than
Last Answer : (A) Half
Description : . __________ column is preferred to be used, when a high liquid hold up is required in a reactor for gas-liquid reaction. (A) Packed (B) Bubble (C) Spray (D) Tray
Last Answer : (B) Bubble
Description : When a high liquid hold up is required in a reactor for gas liquid reaction, use __________ column. (A) Packed (B) Spray (C) Tray (D) Bubble
Last Answer : (D) Bubble
Description : Priming in a distillation column (A) Results from very low gas velocity (B) Is desirable from point efficiency consideration (C) Is characterised by the presence of foam throughout the space between trays (D) Reduces the overall pressure drop
Last Answer : (C) Is characterised by the presence of foam throughout the space between trays
Description : Low viscosity absorbent is preferred for reasons of (A) Rapid absorption rates and good heat transfer characteristics (B) Improved flooding characteristics (C) Low pressure drop on pumping (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Slugging in a fluidised bed can be avoided by using (A) Tall narrow vessel (B) Deep bed of solids (C) Shallow beds of solids and proper choice of particle size (D) Very large particles
Last Answer : (C) Shallow beds of solids and proper choice of particle size
Description : Which of the following same diameter columns gives lowest pressure drop per unit height? (A) Bubble-cap column (B) Sieve-plate column (C) Packed column (stacked)
Last Answer : (C) Packed column (stacked)
Description : Which of these columns incurs the lowest pressure drop? (A) Packed column (with stacked packing) (B) Packed column (with dumped packing) (C) Bubble plate column (D) Pulse column
Last Answer : (A) Packed column (with stacked packing)
Description : A packed tower compared to a plate tower for a particular mass transfer operation (A) Incurs smaller pressure drop (B) Allows installation of cooling coils (C) Is less costly when built in large sizes/diameters (D) Is more suitable, if suspended solids are present in fluid stream
Last Answer : (A) Incurs smaller pressure drop
Description : Pressure drop through plate tower as compared to that through packed tower, for the same duty will be (A) Less (B) More (C) Equal (D) Either (A) or (B); depends on the packing height
Last Answer : (B) More
Description : A gas (density = 1.5 kg/m3 , viscosity = 2 10 -5 kg/m.s) flowing through a packed bed (particle size = 0.5 cm, porosity = 0.5) at a superficial velocity of 2 m/s causes a pressure drop of 8400 Pa/m. The ... flowing at 3 m/s will be (A) 8400 Pa/m (B) 12600 Pa/m (C) 18900 Pa/m (D) 16800 Pa/m
Last Answer : (B) 12600 Pa/m
Description : For flow of fluids through packed bed, the superficial velocity is (A) Less than the average velocity through channels (B) More than the average velocity through channels (C) Dependent on the pressure drop across the bed (D) Same as the average velocity through channels
Last Answer : (A) Less than the average velocity through channels
Description : Pressure drop in a packed bed for laminar flow is given by the __________ equation. (A) Kozeny-Carman (B) Blake-Plummer (C) Leva's (D) Fanning friction factor
Last Answer : (A) Kozeny-Carman
Description : In a dry packed bed, the pressure drop will be changed by increasing the flow rate as (A) V1.8 (B) V-0.8 (C) V (D) V-1
Last Answer : (A) V1.8
Description : For laminar flow of a fluid through a packed bed of spheres of diameter d, the pressure drop per unit length of bed depends upon the sphere diameter as (A) d (B) d 2 (C) d 4 (D) d
Last Answer : (D) d
Description : Pressure drop in packed bed for turbulent flow is given by the __________ equation. (A) Kozeny-Carman (B) Blake-Plummer (C) Leva's (D) Hagen-Poiseuille’s
Last Answer : (B) Blake-Plummer
Description : Pressure drop in a fluidised bed reactor is __________ that in a similar packed bed reactor. (A) Less than (B) Greater than (C) Same as (D) None of these
Last Answer : (B) Greater than
Description : Cooling towers vary in size from small roof-top units to very large hyperboloid structures that can be up to ____meters tall and _____ meters in diameter, or rectangular structures that can be over 40 meters tall and 80 meters long. a. 200&100 b. 100&50 c. 200&50 d. 200 &150
Last Answer : 200&100
Description : Cooling towers vary in size from small roof-top units to very large hyperboloid structures that can be up to ____ meters tall and _____ meters in diameter, or rectangular structures that can be over 40 meters tall and 80 meters long. a. 200&100 b. 100&50 c. 200&50 d. 200 &150
Last Answer : a. 200&100
Description : In a packed tower, the value of HETP equals HTUOG, when the equilibrium and the operating lines are (where, HETP = height equivalent 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
Last Answer : (C) Both (A) & (B)
Description : Height of liquid in agitation tank is normally maintained equal to the tank diameter. However, if the tank is too tall and a large liquid hold up is desired, then two or more impellers mounted on the same shaft may be used. The ... where, D = impeller diameter) (A) 0.5 D (B) D (C) 1.5 D (D) 2 D
Last Answer : (B) D
Description : The specific cake resistance for compressible sludges is a function of the pressure drop (A) Over cake (B) Over medium (C) Overall (D) None of these
Last Answer : (A) Over cake