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Fluid Flow problems


  • 1. The viscosity of liquid was classified as both dilatant and rheopectic, which means that the viscosity

  • Options
  • A. increased with stirring speed but decreased with mixing time
  • B. increased with stirring speed and increased with mixing time
  • C. decreased with stirring speed but increased with mixing time
  • D. decreased with stirring speed and decreased with mixing time
  • Discuss
  • 2. Non-linear relationship between shear stress and shear rate exists in

  • Options
  • A. newtonian fluids
  • B. non-newtonian fluids
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. none of these
  • Discuss
  • 3. Which pattern of mixing is preferred in stirred tank reactors during the culture of aerobic microorganisms?

  • Options
  • A. Laminar flow
  • B. Transient flow
  • C. turbulent flow
  • D. all of these
  • Discuss
  • 4. The Komologorov eddy size

  • Options
  • A. is constant at all stirrer speeds
  • B. increases with stirrer speed
  • C. decreases with stirrer speed
  • D. becomes zero when the stirrer speed is very low
  • Discuss
  • 5. Animal cell cultures do not have much effect on shear forces because

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  • A. the cell size is generally smaller than the critical eddy size at which shear will have an effect
  • B. cells are larger than the critical eddy size at which shear will have an effect
  • C. animal cells have cell walls
  • D. animal cells have cell membranes
  • Discuss
  • 6. Reynolds number for turbulent flow over a plate should be more than

  • Options
  • A. 5 x 10-5
  • B. 106
  • C. 5 x 105
  • D. 500
  • Discuss
  • 7. The viscosity of the culture fluid is classified as both pseudoplastic and thixotropic which indicates that the viscosity

  • Options
  • A. increases with stirring speed but decreases with mixing time
  • B. increases with stirring speed and increases with mixing time
  • C. decreases with stirring speed but increases with mixing time
  • D. decreases with stirring speed and decreases with mixing time
  • Discuss
  • 8. The viscosity of a fluid increases with increasing stirrer speed. This fluid would be best described as being

  • Options
  • A. newtonian
  • B. pseudoplastic
  • C. dilatant
  • D. thixotropic
  • Discuss
  • 9. Filamentous fungal cells are more shear sensitive than bacterial cells because of

  • Options
  • A. the presence of citin in cell walls of filamentous fungi
  • B. larger in size than bacterial cells and therefore are more susceptible to shear forces
  • C. fungal cells are much larger than bacterial cells
  • D. all of the above
  • Discuss
  • 10. The viscosity of water at STP is approximately

  • Options
  • A. 0.005 kg.m-1.s-1
  • B. 0.001 kg.m-1.s-1
  • C. 0.003 kg.m-2.s-1
  • D. 0.1 g.cm-1.s-1
  • Discuss

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