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Category: Petroleum Refinery Engineering
Higher viscosity of lubricating oil usually signifies_______________________?
A. Lower Reid vapour pressure
B. Higher acid number
C. Higher flash point and fire point
D. Lower flash point and fire point
Which of the following is not an important property of fuel oil/furnace oil ?
A. Sulphur content
B. Viscosity
C. Aniline point
D. Flash point
Natural gas recovered along with crude oil from oil wells is called wet natural gas which has a higher ______________ compared to the dry natural gas?
A. Unsaturated hydrocarbon content
B. Calorific value
C. Quantity of propane
D. Quantity of butane
Pick out the wrong statement ?
A. Higher specific gravity of petroleum products means higher C/H ratio
B. Aromatics have lower specific gravity than corresponding paraffins
C. Hydrocarbons of low specific gravity (e.g., paraffins) possess the maximum thermal energy per unit volume
D. Hydrocarbons of high specific gravity (e.g., aromatics) possess the maximum thermal energy per unit weight
Higher vapour pressure of gasoline indicates _________________?
A. Low flash point
B. High breathing loss
C. Both A. and B.
D. Neither A. nor B.
Which of the following processes consumes hydrogen ?
A. Fluid catalytic cracking
B. Visbreaking
C. Propane deasphalting
D. None of these
Which of the following is an additive used for improving the cetane number of diesel ?
A. Tetraethyl lead
B. Tetramethyllead
C. Ethyl nitrate or acetone
D. None of these
Higher boiling fractions like atmospheric residue is distilled under vacuum at low temperature because at high temperature, there is a tendency of the predominance of ____________________?
A. Thermal cracking
B. Gum formation
C. Coking
D. Discoloration
Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a high octane (octane no. = 115) gasoline blending component is produced by the simple additive reaction of isobutylene with __________________?
A. Methyl alcohol
B. Ethyl alcohol
C. Methane
D. Ethane
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