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  • Question
  • 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.

  • Correct Answer
  • decreased capacity. 


  • Heat Transfer problems


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    • 1. 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
    • 2. 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)
    • Discuss
    • 3. 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
    • 4. 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
    • 5. 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
    • 6. 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
    • 7. 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
    • 8. 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
    • 9. Pick out the wrong statement.

    • Options
    • A. In case of heat transfer by purely forced convection, GR/Re2 ? 1.
    • B. The equivalent diameter of heat transfer for a duct of square cross-section (having each side as 'x') is equal to 4x.
    • C. Distillation process is not the same as evaporation.
    • D. The effectiveness of nucleate boiling depends basically on the ease with which the bubbles are formed and detached from the heating surface.
    • Discuss
    • 10. The thermal efficiency of a reversible heat engine operating between two given thermal reservoirs is 0.4. The device is used either as a refrigerator or as a heat pump between the same reservoirs. Then the coefficient of performance as a refrigerator (COP)R and the co-efficient of performance as a heat pump (COP)HP are

    • Options
    • A. (COP)R = (COP)HP = 0.6
    • B. (COP)R = 2.5; (COP)HP = 1.5
    • C. (COP)R = 1.5; (COP)HP = 2.5
    • D. (COP)R = (COP)HP = 2.5
    • Discuss


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