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  • Any shell opening greater than 5 cms for a storage tank must be reinforced for reason of


  • Options
  • A. preventing the local overstressing of the shell around the opening.
  • B. reduction of discontinuity in shape at the junction.
  • C. making the joint leak proof.
  • D. none of these.

  • Correct Answer
  • preventing the local overstressing of the shell around the opening. 


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    • 1. In a __________ rivetted joint, the number of rivets decreases from the innermost row to the outermost row.

    • Options
    • A. chain
    • B. diamond
    • C. zig-zag
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 2. The length of straight rectangular weir used on cross-flow trays is generally __________ the column diameter.

    • Options
    • A. 0.6-0.8 times
    • B. equal to
    • C. twice
    • D. 2 ft irrespective of (for column > 3 ft diameter)
    • Discuss
    • 3. What is the slope of the operating line in the rectifying section of a distillation coloumn?

    • Options
    • A. 0
    • B. ?
    • C. > 1
    • D. <1
    • Discuss
    • 4. When one of the fluids is highly corrosive and has fouling tendency, it should

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    • A. preferably flow inside the tube for its easier internal cleaning.
    • B. perferably flow outside the tube.
    • C. flow at a very slow velocity.
    • D. flow outside the tube, when the flow is counter-current and inside the tube when the flow is co-current.
    • Discuss
    • 5. In case of saddle packing (e.g., berl and intralox saddles), the maximum size of the packing should not exceed __________ of the column diameter.

    • Options
    • A. l/5th
    • B. l/15th
    • C. l/30th
    • D. l/50th
    • Discuss
    • 6. At equal mass velocities, the values of film co-efficients for gases as compared to that for liquids are generally.

    • Options
    • A. higher
    • B. lower
    • C. same
    • D. unpredictable
    • Discuss
    • 7. Seamless pipe is made

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    • A. from rolled strips formed into cylinders and seam-welded.
    • B. by extrusion & casting into static and centrifugal molds.
    • C. by forging a solid round, piercing it by simultaneously rotating & forcing it over a piercer point and further reducing it by rolling gas drawing.
    • D. both (b) and (c).
    • Discuss
    • 8. The minimum baffle height should be

    • Options
    • A. equal to the impeller diameter.
    • B. twice the impeller diameter.
    • C. twice the tank diameter.
    • D. 3/4 of the tank height.
    • Discuss
    • 9. The average velocity in the tubes of a 1-4 heat exchanger is __________ times that in 1-1 heat exchanger having the same size & number of tubes and operated at same liquid flow rate.

    • Options
    • A. 2
    • B. 1/2
    • C. 4
    • D. 1/4
    • Discuss
    • 10. Removable connection of tubes to tube sheet is called

    • Options
    • A. ferrule
    • B. socket
    • C. nipple
    • D. saddle
    • Discuss


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