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  • Question
  • Which is the controlling factor for a drum drier?


  • Options
  • A. Diffusion
  • B. Heat transfer
  • C. Both (a) and (b)
  • D. Neither (a) nor (b)

  • Correct Answer
  • Heat transfer 


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    • 1. The equivalent diameter for pressure drop is __________ that for heat transfer.

    • Options
    • A. smaller than
    • B. greater than
    • C. equal to
    • D. not related with
    • Discuss
    • 2. Air is best heated with steam in a heat exchanger of

    • Options
    • A. plate type.
    • B. double pipe type with fin on steam side.
    • C. double pipe type with fin on air side.
    • D. shell and tube type.
    • Discuss
    • 3. Pick out the wrong statement.

    • Options
    • A. Orifice baffles are never used in a shell and tube heat exchanger.
    • B. Pressure drop on the shell side of a heat exchanger depends upon tube pitch also.
    • C. In a horizontal tube evaporator, surface blanketing by air is avoided.
    • D. Split ring type and pull through type floating heads are two commonly used floating heads is heat exchangers.
    • Discuss
    • 4. Heat produced when a steady state current, I passes through an electrical conductor having resistance, 'R' is

    • Options
    • A. IR
    • B. I2R
    • C. IR2
    • D. I2R2
    • Discuss
    • 5. Fourier's law applies to the heat transfer by

    • Options
    • A. convection
    • B. radiation
    • C. conduction
    • D. all (a), (b) & (c)
    • Discuss
    • 6. When the temperature and humidity of air is low, we usually use __________ draft cooling tower.

    • Options
    • A. natural
    • B. forced
    • C. induced
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 7. Mass transfer rate between two fluid phases does not necessarily depend on the __________ of the two phases.

    • Options
    • A. chemical properties
    • B. physical properties
    • C. degree of turbulence
    • D. interfacial area
    • Discuss
    • 8. With increase in pressure, the relative volatility for a binary system

    • Options
    • A. increases.
    • B. decreases.
    • C. remains same.
    • D. either (a) or (b), depends on the system.
    • Discuss
    • 9. In batch distillation with constant reflux, overhead product composition __________ with time.

    • Options
    • A. increases
    • B. decreases
    • C. does not vary
    • D. may increase on decrease, depends on the system.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Overall efficiency of the distillation column is

    • Options
    • A. the ratio of number of ideal plates to actual plates.
    • B. the ratio of number of actual plates to ideal plates.
    • C. same as the Murphree efficiency.
    • D. always more than the point efficiency.
    • Discuss


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