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  • Question
  • Which tube arrangement in a heat exchanger would facilitate highest heat transfer rate?


  • Options
  • A. Triangular pitch.
  • B. Square pitch.
  • C. Diagonal square pitch.
  • D. Heat transfer rate is independent of tube arrangement.

  • Correct Answer
  • Triangular pitch. 


  • Process Equipment and Plant Design problems


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    • 1. For turbine agitator, the impeller diameter is about

    • Options
    • A. 0.3 to 0.5 d
    • B. 0.1 to 0.2 d
    • C. 0.65 to 0.85 d
    • D. 0.95 d
    • Discuss
    • 2. In case of 1.5" heat exchanger tubes, the inside flow area __________ with decrease in BWG.

    • Options
    • A. increases
    • B. decreases
    • C. remains same
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. Bubble cap plate column is

    • Options
    • A. a finite stage contactor.
    • B. used only for distillation, not for absorption.
    • C. a differential stage contactor.
    • D. a continuous contactor.
    • Discuss
    • 4. In the downcomer of a distillation column, the minimum recommended residence time is about __________ seconds.

    • Options
    • A. 2.5
    • B. 5
    • C. 12.5
    • D. 17.5
    • Discuss
    • 5. If a single tube pass heat exchanger is converted to two passes; for the same flow rate, the pressure drop per unit length in tube side will __________ times.

    • Options
    • A. increase by 1.8
    • B. decrease by 22
    • C. increase by 21.6
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. Cylindrical pressure vessels in horizontal condition is generally supported on a __________ support.

    • Options
    • A. lug
    • B. skirt
    • C. saddle
    • D. guy wire
    • Discuss
    • 7. Pick out the wrong statement.

    • Options
    • A. Rivetting provides a permanent fastening method.
    • B. The joint made by overlapping of one plate over the other, and then rivetting the two plates together with two rows of rivets is called 'double rivetted butt joint'.
    • C. Shank diameter of the rivets should be less than the size of the hole drilled in the plate for rivetting.
    • D. The efficiency of a rivetted joint is the ratio of the strength of the rivetted joint to the strength of the solid plate.
    • Discuss
    • 8. In a shell and tube heat exchanger having triangular pitch, the shell side equivalent diameter is given by

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
    • Discuss
    • 9. A high vapour velocity is required for high plate efficiency in a seive plate coloumn. The satisfactory value of operating vapor velocity for design purpose in seive plate column is about __________ percent of the flooding velocity.

    • Options
    • A. 45
    • B. 60
    • C. 80
    • D. 95
    • Discuss
    • 10. Welded joint efficiency in the design of chemical process equipment is taken as

    • Options
    • A. 0.55
    • B. 0.75
    • C. 0.85
    • D. 0.95
    • Discuss


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