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Question
Sulphuric acid is used as a catalyst in the
Options
A. hydrogenation of oils.
B. gas phase oxidation of SO
2
in chamber process.
C. alkylation of hydrocarbons.
D. none of these.
Correct Answer
alkylation of hydrocarbons.
Chemical Reaction Engineering problems
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1. Pick out the wrong statement.
Options
A. The vessel dispersion number (
D
/
UL
) for plug flow and mixed flow approaches zero and infinity respectively.
B. Space time in a flow reactor is a measure of its capacity and is equal to the residence time when the density of reaction mixture is constant.
C. Mixed reactor is always smaller than the plug flow reactor for all positive reaction orders for a particular duty.
D. In an ideal tubular flow reactor, mixing takes place in radial direction and there is no mixing in logitudinal direction.
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Correct Answer: Mixed reactor is always smaller than the plug flow reactor for all positive reaction orders for a particular duty.
2. The most unsuitable reactor for carrying out reactions in which high reactant concentration favours high yields is
Options
A. backmix reactor
B. plug flow reactor
C. series of CSTR
D. PFR in series
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Correct Answer: backmix reactor
3. BET apparatus
Options
A. measures the catalyst surface area directly.
B. operates at very high pressure.
C. is made entirely of stainless steel.
D. none of these.
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Correct Answer: none of these.
4. Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to space velocity of flow reactors.
Options
A. The unit of space velocity is (time)
-1
.
B. The space velocity of 3 hr
-1
means that three reactor volumes of feed at specified conditions are being fed into the reactor every hour.
C. The space velocity of 3 hr
-1
means that one third reactor volume of feed at specified conditions are being fed into the reactor.
D. none of these.
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Correct Answer: The space velocity of 3 hr
-1
means that one third reactor volume of feed at specified conditions are being fed into the reactor.
5. Specific rate constant for a second order reaction
Options
A. is independent of temperature.
B. varies with temperature.
C. depends on the nature of the reactants.
D. both (b) and (c).
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Correct Answer: both (b) and (c).
6. A reactor is generally termed as an autoclave, when it is a
Options
A. high pressure batch reactor.
B. atmospheric pressure tank reactor.
C. high pressure tubular reactor.
D. atmospheric pressure CSTR.
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Correct Answer: high pressure batch reactor.
7. Rate of a gaseous phase reaction is given by,
. The unit of rate constant is
Options
A. (atm)
-1
B. (hr)
-1
C. (atm)
-1
.(hr)
-1
D. atm.(hr)
-1
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Correct Answer: (atm)
-1
.(hr)
-1
8. Fractional conversion __________ with increase in pressure for ammonia synthesis reaction
i.e
., N
2
+ 3H
2
⇌ 2NH
3
.
Options
A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains unchanged
D. unpredictable from the data
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Correct Answer: increases
9. A catalyst
Options
A. initiates a reaction.
B. lowers the activation energy of reacting molecules.
C. is capable of reacting with any one of the reactants.
D. can not be recovered chemically unchanged at the end of a chemical reaction.
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Correct Answer: lowers the activation energy of reacting molecules.
10. For the irreversible elementary reactions in parallel
viz
, the rate of disappearance of '
X
' is equal to
Options
A.
C
A
(
K
1
+
K
2
)
B.
C
A
(
K
1
+
K
2
)/2
C.
C
A
.
K
1
/2
D.
C
A
.
K
2
/2
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Correct Answer:
C
A
(
K
1
+
K
2
)
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