Category: Process Equipment and Plant Design

A. Overall gas transfer units to the number of ideal trays required
B. Ideal trays required to the number of real trays required
C. Real trays required to the number of ideal trays required
D. None of these

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remain same
D. May increase or decrease depending upon the plate spacing

A. For all the cylindrical process vessels operating above atmospheric pressure, formed heads are used for closing the vessel
B. Fouling factor of river water is less than that of sea water
C. Risers provided in bubble cap trays in the distillation column facilitate the flow of both liquid and vapor
D. Both B. and C.

A. Is always less than arithmetic average value
B. Is always more than arithmetic mean value and the geometric mean value
C. Is always less than arithmetic mean value, but more than geometric mean value
D. May be either more or less than geometric mean and arithmetic mean value depending upon
whether the flow of stream is co-current or counter-current

A. Riveting provides a permanent fastening method
B. The joint made by overlapping of one plate over the other, and then riveting the two plates together with two rows of rivets is called ‘double riveted butt joint’
C. Shank diameter of the rivets should be less than the size of the hole drilled in the plate for riveting
D. The efficiency of a riveted joint is the ratio of the strength of the riveted joint to the strength of the solid plate

A. Less
B. Same
C. More
D. Either A. or B.

A. Fixed charges initially
B. Running cost of cooling water for condenser
C. Vapour & liquid load both
D. Running cost of steam for reboiler

A. 1
B. 0.85
C. 1.5
D. < 0.5

A. Ratio of true temperature difference to the LMTD
B. Ratio of LMTD to the true temperature difference
C. Differenced of true temperature difference and the LMTD
D. Geometric mean of the true temperature difference and the LMTD

A. 10
B. 50
C. 100
D. 200