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Category: Mass Transfer
The solvent used in liquid extraction should not have high latent heat of vaporisation, because ______________________?
A. The pressure drop and hence the pumping cost will be very high
B. It cannot be recovered by distillation
C. Its recovery cost by distillation may be prohibitively high
D. It will decompose while recovering by distillation
In a counter-current extractor, as the axial mixing increases, the extraction efficiency______________________?
A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains unchanged
D. Depends on the pressure of the system
Steam distillation is used for separation of high boiling ____________________?
A. Substances from non-volatile impurities
B. Volatile impurity from still higher boiling substances
C. Both A. and B.
D. Neither A. nor B.
The dew point of an unsaturated gas-vapor mixture does not depend upon the ____________________ of the mixture?
A. Composition
B. Temperature
C. Total pressure
D. All A., B. and C.
Which of the following quantities need not be fixed before starting the design of a cocurrent absorber ?
A. Heat gain or loss
B. Flow rate of entering liquid
C. Flow rate of gas
D. None of these
Mechanism of moisture removal in case of freeze drying of food stuff is by ___________________?
A. Evaporation
B. Sublimation
C. Dehydration
D. Adsorption
Solvent extraction is the terminology applied to the liquid-liquid extraction, which is preferred for the separation of the components of liquids, when____________________?
A. Extracting solvent is cheaply & abundantly available
B. One of the liquid components is heat sensitive
C. Viscosity of liquid components is very high
D. One of the liquid components has very high affinity towards the solvent
Which of the following operations does not involve leaching ?
A. Dissolving gold from ores
B. Dissolving pharmaceutical products from bark or roots
C. Dissolving sugar from the cells of the beet
D. Removing nicotine from its water solution by kerosene
Which of the following unit operations makes use of Thiele-Geddes equation ?
A. Liquid-liquid extraction
B. Solid-liquid extraction
C. Multi-component absorption with chemical reaction
D. Multi-component distillation
The cooling effect in a cooling tower can be speeded up by _______________________?
A. Increasing the air velocity and area of exposed wet surface
B. Reducing the barometric pressure
C. Reducing the humidity of the air
D. All A., B. and C.
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