Description : Heat sensitive materials with very high latent heat of vaporisation may be economically separated using (A) Liquid extraction (B) Distillation (C) Evaporation (D) Absorption
Last Answer : (A) Liquid extraction
Description : The recovery of penicillin from the acidified fermentation broth is done by (A) Distillation (B) Evaporation (C) Absorption (D) Liquid extraction
Last Answer : (D) Liquid extraction
Description : Acetic acid will be most economically separated from a dilute solution of acetic acid in water by (A) Solvent extraction (B) Continuous distillation (C) Evaporation (D) Absorption
Last Answer : (A) Solvent extraction
Description : Solvent extraction is the terminology applied to the liquid-liquid extraction, which is preferred for the separation of the components of liquids, when (A) Extracting solvent is cheaply & abundantly available ... very high (D) One of the liquid components has very high affinity towards the solvent
Last Answer : (D) One of the liquid components has very high affinity towards the solvent
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 : Which of the following pair of isomers can not be separated by fractional crystallisation or fractional distillation:
Last Answer : Which of the following pair of isomers can not be separated by fractional crystallisation or fractional ... )-lactic acid and (-) -lactic acid
Description : Impure camphor is purified by (1) sublimation (2) fractional crystallisation (3) fractional distillation (4) steam distillation
Last Answer : sublimation
Description : Unit operation involved in the prilling of urea is (A) Evaporation (B) Drying (C) Crystallisation (D) Both (B) and (C)
Last Answer : (D) Both (B) and (C)
Description : Duhring’s rule is important in solving problems on (A) Distillation (B) Crystallisation (C) Evaporation (D) Humidification
Last Answer : (C) Evaporation
Description : If the solubilities of different components (in a liquid-liquid extraction system) increase with rise in temperature, then the temperature above which they dissolve completely is known as the critical solution ... On heating, a vapor phase will appear; while on cooling, a solid phase will appear
Last Answer : (D) On heating, a vapor phase will appear; while on cooling, a solid phase will appear
Description : Black liquor is converted into white liquor by (A) Evaporation and burning the concentrate followed by causticisation of products (B) Multi-effect evaporation only (C) Selective liquid extraction (D) Extractive distillation
Last Answer : (A) Evaporation and burning the concentrate followed by causticisation of products
Description : Glycerine is recovered from lye by (A) Evaporation followed by vacuum distillation (B) Liquid extraction technique (C) Extractive distillation technique (D) None of these
Last Answer : (A) Evaporation followed by vacuum distillation
Description : The most important application of distribution law is in (A) Evaporation (B) Liquid extraction (C) Drying (D) Distillation
Last Answer : (B) Liquid extraction
Description : What is crystallisation? Where is it used? Why is this better than simple evaporation technique? -Science
Last Answer : crystallisation is a process that separates a pure solid in the form of its crystals from a solution. Crystallisation is better than evaporation because during Evaporation. Some solids decompose or some, ... charred on heating to dryness. ... In such cases, the crystallisation technique is applied.
Description : Common salt is obtained from sea water by the process of (a) sublimation (b) evaporation (c) crystallisation (d) filtration
Last Answer : Ans:(b)
Description : Pick out the correct statement. (A) Higher hold up of the solid in the rotary dryer results in better exposure of the solids to the gas (B) The 'Hatta number' is ... reflux in case of distillation operation requires infinite number of plates for a binary system separation
Last Answer : (C) For a non-reacting binary mixture of ideal gases, the partial pressure distribution of both components is linear in the case of steady state equimolal counter-diffusion
Description : Pick out the correct statement. (A) In case of liquid-liquid extraction, no separation is possible, if the selectivity of the solvent used is unity (B) With increase in temperature, the selectivity of the solvent used ... in solvent extraction is unity at the plait point (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Last Answer : (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : In liquid extraction, if the selectivity is unity, then (A) Separation of the constituents is the most effective (B) No separation will occur (C) Amount of solvent required will be minimum (D) Solvent flow rate should be very low
Last Answer : (B) No separation will occur
Description : ADDUCTS' and 'CLATHRATES' are used in case of (A) Extractive distillation (B) Crystallisation (C) Absorption (D) None of these
Last Answer : (B) Crystallisation
Description : Consider the following statements: 1. Carbyne is an allotrope of carbon. 2. Gasoline, used as a fuel in motor vehicles is a mixture of petrol and alcohol. 3. Petroleum is also known as 'liquid gold'. 4. The various components of crude ... (b) 1, 3 and 4 only (c) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3 only
Description : Separation of a mixture of two gases by absorption in the liquid solvent depends upon the difference in their (A) Viscosity (B) Density (C) Solubility (D) Relative volatility
Last Answer : (C) Solubility
Description : Steady state equimolal counter diffusion is encountered in (A) Separation of a binary mixture by distillation (B) Absorption of NH3 from air by water (C) All liquid-liquid diffusion systems (D) All liquid-solid diffusion systems
Last Answer : (A) Separation of a binary mixture by distillation
Description : Which of the following unit operations makes use of Thiele-Geddes equation? (A) Liquid-liquid extraction (B) Solid-liquid extraction (C) Multi-component absorption with chemical reaction (D) Multi-component distillation
Last Answer : (D) Multi-component distillation
Description : Steady state equimolal counter diffusion occurs in case of (A) Leaching (B) Absorption (C) Binary phase distillation (D) Liquid-liquid extraction
Last Answer : (C) Binary phase distillation
Description : Tea percolation employs (A) Liquid-liquid extraction (B) Leaching (C) Absorption (D) None of these
Last Answer : (B) Leaching
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 : Fractional solvent extraction (A) Employs only one solvent (B) Employs two solvents (C) Results in low interfacial tension (D) None of these
Last Answer : (B) Employs two solvents
Description : Consider the following processes: 1. Evaporation 2. Fractional distillation 3. Distillation 4. Filtration The process(es) involved in the refining of crude oil is/ are: (a) 3 only (b) 2 and 3 (c) 3 only (d) 1 only
Description : Sea water can be purified by the process of – (1) distillation (2) evaporation (3) filtration (4) fractional distillation
Last Answer : (1) distillation Explanation: The traditional process used in desalination operations is vacuum distillation- essentially the boiling of water at less than atmospheric pressure and thus a much ... when the vapor pressure equals the ambient pressure and vapor pressure increases with temperature.
Description : Sea water can be purified by the process of (1) distillation (2) evaporation (3) filtration (4) fractional distillation
Last Answer : distillation
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) The operating line always lies above the equilibrium solubility curve in case of a single component absorber (B) The operating line always lies below the equilibrium ... (D) The solubility of a particular gas in ideal solution in any solvent is always the same
Last Answer : (C) The operating pressure in solvent extraction system should be below vapor pressures of all components
Description : In case of a super-cooled solution, which is on the verge of crystallisation, the free energy of the solution as compared to that of the solid is (A) More (B) Less (C) Same (D) More or less; depends on the nature of solution
Last Answer : (A) More
Description : During crystallisation, formation of crystal can occur in __________ solution only. (A) Saturated (B) Supersaturated (C) Under-saturated (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Last Answer : (B) Supersaturated
Description : Crystallisation of solids from a homogeneous solution is a/an __________ process. (A) Exothermic (B) Mildly endothermic (C) Highly endothermic (D) None of these
Last Answer : (A) Exothermic
Description : The driving potential for the crystal growth during crystallisation is the __________ of the solution. (A) Concentration (B) Viscosity (C) Super-saturation (D) Density
Last Answer : (C) Super-saturation
Description : Leidenfrost point is a term concerned with the (A) Condensation of the saturated vapor on a cold surface (B) Concentration of a corrosive solution by evaporation (C) Heat transfer between two highly viscous liquids (D) Boiling of a liquid on a hot surface
Last Answer : (D) Boiling of a liquid on a hot surface
Description : In case of evaporators, liquid entrainment results primarily due to (A) High vacuum in the evaporator (B) High evaporation rate (C) Foaming of the solution (D) High heat transfer rate
Last Answer : (C) Foaming of the solution
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) The value of hydrostatic head increases with increase in vacuum in the effect in a multiple effect evaporator system (B) Entering velocity of the liquid in ... a multiple effect evaporation system, the number of effects is limited by the total boiling point rise
Last Answer : (C) Duhring's plot is used for calculating the concentration of solution
Description : The phenomenon occuring during pumping of a liquid solution containing dissolved gases, which may come out of the solution giving rise to gas pockets, is termed as (A) Evaporation (B) Cavitation (C) Sublimation (D) Stripping
Last Answer : (B) Cavitation
Description : Pick out the wrong statement about cavitation. (A) Sudden reduction of pressure in a fluid flow system caused by flow separation, vortex formation or abrupt closing of valve leads to cavitation ... (D) Large scale cavitation cannot damage pipeline, restrict fluid flow and damage steam turbine blades
Last Answer : (D) Large scale cavitation cannot damage pipeline, restrict fluid flow and damage steam turbine blades
Description : In a liquid-liquid extraction, 10 kg of a solution containing 2 kg of solute C and 8 kg of solvent A is brought into contact with 10 kg of solvent B. Solvent A and B are completely immiscible in each other whereas ... (C) Less than 1 kg of C is transferred to B (D) No amount of C is transferred to B
Last Answer : (A) The entire amount of C is transferred to solvent B
Description : The solvent used in liquid extraction should not have high latent heat of vaporisation, because (A) The pressure drop and hence the pumping cost will be very high (B) It cannot ... by distillation may be prohibitively high (D) It will decompose while recovering by distillation
Last Answer : (C) Its recovery cost by distillation may be prohibitively high
Description : Pick out the wrong statement: (A) Reboiler is not used in open steam distillation (B) The separation of solutes of different molecular sizes in a liquid solution by use of a ... is used for calculating theoretical number of plates in a distillation column at normal operating reflux condition
Last Answer : (D) Fenske-Underwood equation is used for calculating theoretical number of plates in a distillation column at normal operating reflux condition
Description : 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) ... contact with the particle to the main bulk of the solution (D) All 'a', 'b' & 'c'
Last Answer : (D) All 'a', 'b' & 'c'
Description : Compound A is extracted from a solution of A + B into a pure solvent S. A Co-current unit is used for the liquid-liquid extraction. The inlet rate of the solution containing A is 200 moles of B/hr.m2 and the ... extraction achieved in the unit is (A) 25% (B) 50% (C) 70% (D) 90%
Last Answer : (B) 50%
Description : Separation of the isotopes of helium for scientific investigations is done by (A) Reverse osmosis (B) Thermal diffusion (C) Leaching (D) Solvent extraction
Last Answer : (B) Thermal diffusion
Description : Crude oil is separated into its components by: w) chemical reaction x) simple distillation y) fractional distillation z) settling
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION
Description : The order of a chemical reaction (A) Can be determined only experimentally (B) Can be determined from the stoichiometry of the reaction (C) Cannot be zero (D) Can be fractional
Last Answer : (B) Can be determined from the stoichiometry of the reaction (C) Cannot be zero
Description : The overall mass transfer co-efficient for the absorption of SO2 in air with dilute NaOH solution can be increased substantially by (A) Increasing the gas film co-efficient (B) Increasing the liquid film co-efficient (C) Increasing the total pressure (D) Decreasing the total pressure
Last Answer : (A) Increasing the gas film co-efficient
Description : The interfacial area per unit volume of dispersion, in a gas-liquid contactor, for fractional hold up of gas = 0.1 and gas bubble diameter = 0.5 mm is given by (in m2 /m3 ) (A) 500 (B) 1200 (C) 900 (D) 800
Last Answer : (A) 500