Practice Test: Question Set - 38
1. Deaeration(removal of O2) of water is done by
- (A) Rectification
- (B) Absorption
- (C) Ion-exchange
- (D) Adsorption
2. For the air water system under ambient conditions, the adiabatic saturation temperature and the wet bulb temperature are nearly equal, because
- (A) Water has a high latent heat of evaporation
- (B) Lewis number is close to unity
- (C) They are always equal under all circumstances
- (D) Solubility of the components of air in water is very small
3. Dew point of a gas-vapor mixture
- (A) Increases with temperature rise
- (B) Decreases with temperature rise
- (C) Decreases with decrease in pressure
- (D) Increases with increase in pressure
4. If moisture content of solid on dry basis is X, then the same on wet basis is
- (A) X/(X + 1)
- (B) X/(1 - X)
- (C) (1 + X)/X
- (D) (1 - X)/X
5. __________ temperature is the steady state temperature attained by a small amount of liquid evaporating into a large quantity of unsaturated gas-vapor mixture.
- (A) Dry bulb
- (B) Wet bulb
- (C) Dew point
- (D) None of these
6. The-relative volatility for separation of a non-ideal binary mixture by distillation should be
- (A) 0
- (B) 1
- (C) > 1
- (D) < 1
7. In case of steam distillation, the steam leaving the liquid is not completely saturated with distillate vapor, because
- (A) Temperature is less
- (B) Total pressure is less
- (C) Mixing of steam with the material being vaporized is not so intimate as to result in equilibrium condition
- (D) Saturated steam is used for steam distillation
8. 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
9. Gaseous diffusion co-efficient increases with increase in the
- (A) Pressure
- (B) Temperature
- (C) Both (a) & (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
10. Sides of equilateral-triangular co-ordinates (on which ternary liquid system is plotted) represent
- (A) A pure component
- (B) A binary mixture
- (C) A ternary mixture
- (D) Partially miscible ternary system
11. The rate of mass transfer is not dependent upon the
- (A) Degree of dispersion of one fluid in the other
- (B) Interfacial surface exposed between the phases
- (C) Both (a) & (b)
- (D) None of these
12. Air at a particular humidity is heated in a furnace. The new dew point
- (A) Decreases
- (B) Increases
- (C) Depends on the extent of heating
- (D) Remain unchanged
13. 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) Diffusion of the solute from the solution in contact with the particle to the main bulk of the solution
- (D) All 'a', 'b' & 'c'
14. In case of gases, the binary diffusivity is proportional to (where, P = pressure).
- (A) P
- (B) 1/P
- (C) 1/√P
- (D) √P
15. One mole feed of a binary mixture of a given composition is flash vaporized at a fixed P and T. If Raoult's law is obeyed, then changing the feed composition would effect
- (A) The product composition but not the fraction vaporized
- (B) The product composition as well as the fraction vaporized
- (C) The fraction vaporized but not the product composition
- (D) Neither the product composition nor the fraction vaporized
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