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  • In a heat exchanger, floating head is provided to


  • Options
  • A. facilitate cleaning of the exchanger.
  • B. increase the heat transfer area.
  • C. relieve stresses caused by thermal expansion.
  • D. increase log mean temperature gradient.

  • Correct Answer
  • relieve stresses caused by thermal expansion. 


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    • 1. For an ideal black body

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    • A. absorptivity = 1
    • B. reflectivity = 1
    • C. emissivity = 0
    • D. transmissivity = 1
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    • 2. The number of kg vaporised per kg of steam fed to the evaporator is defined as

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    • A. capacity
    • B. rate of evaporation
    • C. economy
    • D. rate of vaporisation
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    • 3. In case of vertical tube evaporator, with increase in liquor level, the overall heat transfer co-efficient

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    • A. increases
    • B. decreases
    • C. is not affected
    • D. may increase or decrease; depends on the feed
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    • 4. Hot water (0.01 m3 /min) enters the tube side of a counter current shell and tube heat exchanger at 80°C and leaves at 50°C. Cold oil (0.05 m3/min) of density 800 kg/m3 and specific heat of 2 kJ/kg.K enters at 20°C. The log mean temperature difference in °C is approximately

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    • A. 32
    • B. 37
    • C. 45
    • D. 50
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    • 5. The heat flux (from outside to inside) across an insulating wall with thermal conductivity, K= 0.04 W/m.°K and thickness 0.16m is 10 W/m2. The temperature of the inside wall is - 5°C. The outside wall temperature is

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    • A. 25°C
    • B. 30°C
    • C. 35°C
    • D. 40°C
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    • 6. When vaporisation takes place directly at the heating surface, it is called

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    • A. film boiling
    • B. nucleate boiling
    • C. vapour binding
    • D. none of these
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    • 7. The steam ejector is used to

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    • A. remove condensate from the steam pipelines.
    • B. create vacuum.
    • C. superheat the steam.
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 8. In the equation Q = UA?t; ?t is

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    • A. geometric mean temperature difference.
    • B. arithmetic mean temperature difference.
    • C. logarithmic mean temperature difference.
    • D. the difference of average bulk temperatures of hot and cold fluids.
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    • 9. A 10 cm dia steam pipe, carrying steam at 180°C, is covered with an insulation (conductivity = 0.6 W/m.°C). It losses heat to the surroundings at 30°C. Assume a heat transfer co-efficient of 0.8 W/m2.°C for heat transfer from surface to the surroundings. Neglect wall resistance of the pipe and film resistance of steam. If the insulation thickness is 2 cms, the rate of heat loss from this insulated pipe will be

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    • A. greater than that for uninsulated steam pipe.
    • B. less than that of the uninsulated steam pipe.
    • C. equal to that of the uninsulated steam pipe.
    • D. less than the steam pipe with 5 cms insulation.
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    • 10. In Joule's experiment, an insulated container contains 20 kg of water initially at 25°C. It is stirred by an agitator, which is made to turn by a slowly falling body weighing 40 kg through a height of 4 m. The process is repeated 500 times. The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 ms-2. Neglecting the heat capacity of agitator, the temperature of water (in °C) is

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    • A. 40.5
    • B. 34.4
    • C. 26.8
    • D. 25
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