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Process Equipment and Plant Design problems


  • 1. Hazards associated with the relief valve leakage for extremely hazardous material storage can be taken care of by providing

  • Options
  • A. rupture diaphragm
  • B. dikes
  • C. surge chamber
  • D. none of these
  • Discuss
  • 2. The difficulty of liquid distribution in packed towers is accentuated, when the ratio of tower diameter to packing diameter is

  • Options
  • A. < 30
  • B. < 7
  • C. > 7 < 15
  • D. > 20 < 50
  • Discuss
  • 3. The normal range of velocity of steam in pipes is __________ m/sec.

  • Options
  • A. 0.1-0.5
  • B. 1-5
  • C. 10-20
  • D. 80-100
  • Discuss
  • 4. Circumferential (hoop) stress in a thin cylindrical vessel under internal pressure is __________ the longitudinal stress.

  • Options
  • A. half
  • B. equal to
  • C. twice
  • D. eight times
  • Discuss
  • 5. In the agitators, the power required will be changed with the increase of diameter of agitator (D) as

  • Options
  • A. D2
  • B. D5
  • C. D
  • D. D9
  • Discuss
  • 6. With increase in temperature drop (in a shell and tube heat exchanger), the LMTD correction factor, FT

  • Options
  • A. decreases very rapidly
  • B. increases very rapidly
  • C. remains constant
  • D. increases linearly
  • Discuss
  • 7. An increase in the liquid resistance to interphase mass transfer and a resultant reduction in plate efficiency is caused by

  • Options
  • A. an increase in liquid viscosity.
  • B. an increase in relatived volatility for rectification columns.
  • C. decrease in gas solubility for absorbers.
  • D. all (a), (b) and (c).
  • Discuss
  • 8. What is the slope of the operating line in the stripping section of a distillation column?

  • Options
  • A. 0
  • B. ?
  • C. > 1
  • D. < 1
  • Discuss
  • 9. The ratio of down take area to cross-sectional area of the tube, for calendria type evaporator ranges from

  • Options
  • A. 0.5 to 1
  • B. 1 to 1.5
  • C. 1.5 to 2
  • D. 2 to 2.5
  • Discuss
  • 10. A forced circulation long tube vertical evaporator as compared to the natural circulation evaporator

  • Options
  • A. is economical in operation.
  • B. employs high velocity, high heat transfer rate and less heating surface requirement.
  • C. employs a centrifugal pump placed between external downtake from vapor drum and inlet to tube bundle.
  • D. both (b) & (c).
  • Discuss

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