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  • Which of the following is not used as a medium for high temperature heating?


  • Options
  • A. Dowtherm
  • B. mercury
  • C. liquid metal (e.g. molten sodium)
  • D. fused salts (e.g., an eutectic mixture of 53% KNO3, 40% NaNO2and 7% NaNO3)

  • Correct Answer
  • mercury 


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    • 1. Presence of a non-condensing gas in a condensing vapour

    • Options
    • A. increases the rate of condensation.
    • B. decreases thermal resistance.
    • C. is desirable to increase the film co-efficient.
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 2. Heat waves

    • Options
    • A. can not pass through vacuum.
    • B. travel in straight line.
    • C. can be reflected by a mirror.
    • D. both (b) and (c).
    • Discuss
    • 3. With increase in porosity, the thermal conductivity of a solid substance

    • Options
    • A. increases
    • B. decreases
    • C. remains unchanged
    • D. may increase or decrease; depends on the solid
    • Discuss
    • 4. A process stream of dilute aqueous solution flowing at the rate of10 Kg.s-1 is to be heated. Steam condensate at 95°C is available for heating purpose, also at a rate of 10 Kg.s-1. A 1 - 1 shell and tube heat exchanger is available. The best arrangement is

    • Options
    • A. counter flow with process stream on shell side.
    • B. counter flow with process stream on tube side.
    • C. parallel flow with process stream on shell side.
    • D. parallel flow with process stream on tube side.
    • Discuss
    • 5. Which of the following is concerned with both heat and mass transfer?

    • Options
    • A. Lewis relationship
    • B. Nusselt number
    • C. Kutateladze number
    • D. Froude number
    • Discuss
    • 6. Convective heat transfer co-efficient in case of fluid flowing in tubes is not affected by the tube length/diameter ratio, if the flow is in the __________ zone.

    • Options
    • A. laminar
    • B. transition
    • C. both 'a' & 'b'
    • D. highly turbulent
    • Discuss
    • 7. Increasing the liquor level in the evaporator results in the

    • Options
    • A. decreased capacity.
    • B. increase in liquor film co-efficient.
    • C. decreased effect of hydrostatic head.
    • D. increased true temperature drop.
    • Discuss
    • 8. The average heat transfer co-efficient for laminar film condensation on vertical surface is inversely proportional to (where, ?T = Temperature drop across condensate film )

    • Options
    • A. (?T)2
    • B. ?T
    • C. (?T)1/4
    • D. (?T)3/2
    • Discuss
    • 9. In case of evaporators, liquid entrainment results primarily due to

    • Options
    • A. high vacuum in the evaporator.
    • B. high evaporation rate.
    • C. foaming of the solution.
    • D. high heat transfer rate.
    • Discuss
    • 10. A backward feed multiple effect evaporator is better than forward feed for concentrating cold feed, because it provides

    • Options
    • A. higher economy
    • B. lower capacity
    • C. both (a) & (b)
    • D. lower economy
    • Discuss


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