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  • Question
  • 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.

  • Correct Answer
  • foaming of the solution. 


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    • 1. 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
    • 2. 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
    • 3. 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
    • 4. 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
    • 5. Presence of a non-condensing gas in a condensing vapour

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    • A. increases the rate of condensation.
    • B. decreases thermal resistance.
    • C. is desirable to increase the film co-efficient.
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 6. A backward feed multiple effect evaporator is better than forward feed for concentrating cold feed, because it provides

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    • A. higher economy
    • B. lower capacity
    • C. both (a) & (b)
    • D. lower economy
    • Discuss
    • 7. Pick out the wrong statement.

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    • 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
    • 8. 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
    • 9. Steam consumption in kg/hr in case of an evaporator is given by (where, C & E are capacity the economy of the evaporator respectively)

    • Options
    • A. C/E
    • B. E/C
    • C. CE
    • D.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Thermal conductivity of a conducting solid material depends upon its

    • Options
    • A. temperature
    • B. porosity
    • C. both (a) & (b)
    • D. neither (a) nor (b)
    • Discuss


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