Description : Commercially ethylene is produced from naphtha by (A) Catalytic cracking (B) Catalytic dehydrogenation (C) Pyrolysis (D) Hydrocracking
Last Answer : (D) Hydrocracking
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) Higher temperature is employed in visbreaking than in thermal cracking (B) Pyrolysis is a mild thermal cracking process (C) Lead susceptibility of ... Operating pressure and temperature in thermal cracking process is more than that in catalytic cracking process
Last Answer : (A) Higher temperature is employed in visbreaking than in thermal cracking (B) Pyrolysis is a mild thermal cracking process
Description : Which of the following processes is used for the production of petroleum coke? (A) Stabilisation (B) Visbreaking (C) Cracking (D) Reforming
Last Answer : (C) Cracking
Description : Which of the following processes consumes hydrogen? (A) Fluid catalytic cracking (B) Visbreaking (C) Propane deasphalting (D) None of these
Last Answer : (A) Fluid catalytic cracking
Description : Which of the following processes in oil refinery does not employ ‘cracking’? (A) Coking (B) Visbreaking (C) Pyrolysis (D) None of these
Last Answer : (D) None of these
Description : Name the endothermic reaction out of the following: (A) Catalytic cracking (B) Hydrocracking (C) Dehydrogeneration of Naphthene to produce aromatic (D) Catalytic polymerisation
Last Answer : (C) Dehydrogeneration of Naphthene to produce aromatic
Description : Asphalts are (A) Low molecular weight & low boiling point compounds present in petroleum (B) Desirable in catalytic cracking feedstock, because they produce coke (C) Readily oxidisable and form carbonaceous sludge (D) All (A), (B) & (C)
Last Answer : (C) Readily oxidisable and form carbonaceous sludge
Description : The coking process normally mostly used in Indian oil refineries is the __________ coking process. (A) Delayed (B) Flexi (C) Fluid (D) Contact
Last Answer : (A) Delayed
Description : Which is the most ideal feed stock for 'coking' process used for the manufacture of petroleum coke? (A) Naphtha (B) Vacuum residue (C) Light gas oil (D) Diesel
Last Answer : (B) Vacuum residue
Description : Presence of free moisture in coal during its high temperature carbonisation (A) Reduces the coking time (B) Protects the volatile products from pyrolysis (cracking) in the presence of hot coke and hot oven walls (C) Increases the loss of fine coal dust from the ovens when charging (D) None of these
Last Answer : (B) Protects the volatile products from pyrolysis (cracking) in the presence of hot coke and hot oven walls
Description : In petroleum refining, the process used for conversion of hydrocarbons to aromatics is (A) Catalytic cracking (B) Catalytic reforming (C) Hydrotreating (D) Alkylation
Last Answer : (B) Catalytic reforming
Description : The main use of heavy gas oil produced by the vacuum distillation unit is as a (A) Blending component for kerosene (B) Blending component for petrol (C) Feedstock for fluid catalytic cracking unit (D) None of these
Last Answer : (C) Feedstock for fluid catalytic cracking unit
Description : In Hydrofining catalytic desulphurisation process for sweetening of petroleum products, use of hydrogen (A) Enhances the desulphurisation process (B) Minimises coke formation (C) Both (A) and (B) (D) Neither (A) nor (B
Last Answer : (C) Both (A) and (B)
Description : In the fluid catalytic cracker (FCC), the cracking reaction is __________ (i) and the regeneration is__________ (ii) __________. (A) (i) exothermic (ii) endothermic (B) (i) exothermic (ii) exothermic (C) (i) endothermic (ii) endothermic (D) (i) endothermic (ii) exothermic
Last Answer : (D) (i) endothermic (ii) exothermic
Description : Ash content in the coke produced from a coking coal having 20% ash may be around __________ percent. (A) 6 (B) 12 (C) 18 (D) 24
Last Answer : (D) 24
Description : The catalytic cracking of heavier petroleum fraction is done to produce mainly (A) Gasoline (B) Asphalt (C) Diesel oil (D) Tar
Last Answer : (C) Diesel oil
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) Percentage of ash in coke produced from medium coking coal is more than that in coal (B) The calorific value (kcal/Nm3 ) of coke oven gas reduces on ... plants in India at Talcher (Orissa) and Ramagundam (A.P) employ Kopper-Totzek process of coal gasification
Last Answer : (C) Ash is normally removed as 'fly-ash' in Kopper-Totzek process of coal gasification
Description : Octane number of gasoline produced by two stage fluidised catalytic cracking process is (A) 80 (B) 87 (C) 92 (D) 97
Last Answer : (D) 97
Description : Styrene which is a monomer for the production of polystyrene, is commercially produced by the (A) Catalytic dehydrogenation of ethyl benzene (B) Dehydration of ethyl alcohol followed by hydrogenation (C) Reacting ethylene oxide with acetaldehyde (D) Fermentation of starch
Last Answer : (A) Catalytic dehydrogenation of ethyl benzene
Description : Styrene (a monomer for the production of polystyrene) is commercially produced by (A) Catalytic dehydrogenation of ethyl benzene (B) Dehydration of ethyl alcohol followed by hydrogenation (C) Reacting ethylene oxide with acetaldehyde (D) Fermentation of starch
Description : In catalytic cracking process, olefins crack __________ times faster than in thermal cracking process. (A) 100 (B) 200-300 (C) 1000-10000 (D) 10
Last Answer : (C) 1000-10000
Description : Thermofor catalytic cracking process is a __________ process. (A) Fixed bed (B) Moving bed (C) Fluidised bed (D) Non-catalytic
Last Answer : (D) Non-catalytic
Description : Hydrogen gas is not produced commercially (for nitrogenous fertiliser manufacture) by (A) Iron-steam reaction (B) Electrolysis of water (C) Steam reforming of naphtha (D) Its cryogenic separation from coke oven gas
Last Answer : (A) Iron-steam reaction
Description : Coking time in narrow by-product coke ovens is around __________ hours. (A) 18 (B) 48 (C) 8 (D) 80
Last Answer : (A) 18
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) Indian coals on an average contain 25-30% ash as against 10-12% ash in imported coking coal (B) Ammonia is recovered in the form of ammonium sulphate in direct ... indicates poor caking properties of coal (D) Wash oil is used for scrubbing Benzol from coke oven gas
Last Answer : (C) A high swelling index number of coking coal indicates poor caking properties of coal
Description : __________ catalytic reaction is involved in the thermal cracking of gas oil. (A) Homogeneous (B) Non-Homogeneous (C) Heterogeneous (D) Non-Heterogeneous
Last Answer : (A) Homogeneous
Description : Higher boiling fractions like atmospheric residue is distilled under vacuum at low temperature because at high temperature, there is a tendency of the predominance of (A) Thermal cracking (B) Gum formation (C) Coking (D) Discoloration
Last Answer : (C) Coking
Description : The order of preference for feedstock to a catalytic reformer is (A) Catalytic naphtha - coking naphtha - virgin naphtha (B) Coking naphtha - virgin naphtha - catalytic naphtha (C) Virgin naphtha - catalytic naphtha - coking naphtha (D) Virgin naphtha - coking naphtha - catalytic naphtha
Last Answer : (B) Coking naphtha - virgin naphtha - catalytic naphtha
Description : Which of the following is the most widely used cracking process in oil refineries? (A) Dubbs process (B) T.C.C. moving bed process (C) Fluidised bed catalytic cracking process (D) Houdry's fixed bed process
Last Answer : (C) Fluidised bed catalytic cracking process
Description : From among the following, choose one which is not an exothermic process. (A) Methanol synthesis (B) Catalytic cracking (C) Ammonia synthesis (D) Oxidation of sulphu
Last Answer : (B) Catalytic cracking
Description : Choose the correct statement. (A) Coking tendency increases with increasing molecular weight (B) Coking tendency decreases with increasing molecular weight (C) Higher pressure enhances coke formation (D) Coking is an exothermic reaction
Last Answer : (A) Coking tendency increases with increasing molecular weigh
Description : Beehive coke oven (A) Facilitates by-products recovery (B) Takes 2-3 days for coking of coal but requires no external fuel for heating (C) Gives larger yield of coke (around 85%) as compared to by-product ovens (D) Produces coke with very poor strength
Last Answer : (B) Takes 2-3 days for coking of coal but requires no external fuel for heating
Description : Fussain (A) Is friable, charcoal like substance (B) Has highest fixed carbon and lowest volatile matter content of all the four banded components of coal (C) Is non-coking, but when blended with highly coking ... its swelling and produces high strength coke on carbonisation (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Last Answer : (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Which of the following fuels is generally not used in thermal power plant boiler firing? (A) Furnace oil, light diesel oil and tar/PCM (B) Pulverised coking coal (C) Coal middling from washeries (D) B.F. gas, coke oven gas and L.D. converter gas
Last Answer : (B) Pulverised coking coal
Description : Prime coking coal is always blended with medium or non- coking coal before carbonisation (A) To check against its excessive swelling during heating, which may exert high pressure and damage coke oven walls (B) Because, it alone produces unreactive coke (C) Both (A) and (B) (D) Neither (A) nor (B)
Description : Anthracite can be used for (A) Recarbonising steel (B) Making carbon electrodes (C) Blending with highly coking coal to check its swelling which helps in saving coke even walls from damage and to produce high strength coke (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) Cokes of high reactivity are obtained from weakly coking coals (B) Cokes of high reactivity are obtained from strongly coking coals (C) Reactivity of coke is inversely proportional to its absolute density (D) Abrasion index of the coke is a measure of its hardness
Last Answer : (B) Cokes of high reactivity are obtained from strongly coking coals
Description : Preheating of coal charge for the coke ovens reduces the (A) Time of carbonisation (B) Yield of gas and tar (C) Fuel consumption in coking (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Coking time in beehive coke oven is about (A) 12 hours (B) 2-3 days (C) One week (D) Two weeks
Last Answer : (B) 2-3 days
Description : Though increased pressure has a retarding effect on cracking reaction, yet in actual process, a positive pressure of 10-15 kgf/cm2 is maintained during cracking mainly to (A) Increase the yield of ... coke formation (C) Enhance the octane number of gasoline (D) Reduce gum content in gasoline
Last Answer : (B) Suppress coke formation
Description : Commercial production of Vanaspati is done by __________ of edible vegetable oils. (A) Hydrogenation (B) Oxidation (C) Hydrolysis (D) Hydrocracking
Last Answer : (A) Hydrogenation
Description : . Which of the following is used as a catalyst in fluidised bed catalytic cracking? (A) Silica-magnesia (B) Silica-alumina (C) Bentonite clays (D) All (A), (B) and (C
Last Answer : (D) All (A), (B) and (C
Description : Catalyst used in the catalytic cracking is (A) Silica-alumina (B) Silica gel (C) Vanadium pentoxide (D) Nickel
Last Answer : (A) Silica-alumina
Description : Straight run naphtha is converted into high octane number petrol (gasoline) by catalytic (A) Cracking (B) Polymerisation (C) Reforming (D) Isomerisation
Last Answer : (C) Reforming
Description : Catalytic cracking compared to thermal cracking of residue of vacuum distillation of crude oil (A) Gives higher yield of petrol (B) Lower octane number of petrol (C) Higher sulphur content in the product (D) Higher gum forming material in petro
Last Answer : (A) Gives higher yield of petrol
Description : Pick out the correct statement pertaining to catalytic cracking. (A) With increase in the reactor pressure, octane number of gasoline decreases (B) With increase in the reactor temperature, gasoline yield decreases for a given ... with increase in the catalyst to oil ratio (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Pressure & temperature maintained in catalytic cracking is about (A) 2 atm & 500°C (B) 10 atm & 500°C (C) 30 atm & 200°C (D) 50 atm & 750°C
Last Answer : (A) 2 atm & 500°C
Description : In catalytic cracking, the (A) Gasoline obtained has a very low octane number (B) Pressure & temperature is very high (C) Gasoline obtained has very high aromatic content (D) Gasoline obtained has very high amount of gum forming compounds
Last Answer : (C) Gasoline obtained has very high aromatic content
Description : Which of the following is not a commercially used feed-stock for the production of ammonia synthesis gas? (A) Water (B) Naphtha (C) Tar (D) Coal/coke oven gas
Last Answer : (C) Tar
Description : When petroleum is refined it is subject to a number of processes including cracking. During the cracking process w) lighter hydrocarbons are combined to form heavier ones x) heavy hydrocarbons ... lighter hydrocarbons are separated by distillation z) oxygen is used to burn the heavier hydrocarbons
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- HEAVY HYDROCARBONS ARE BROKEN UP INTO LIGHTER ONES