Mass Transfer Quiz 1

________ columns are used for liquid dispersion in a continuous gas phase ?

Adsorption is a unit operation which generally involves ________ systems?

?Absorption with chemical reaction? is involved in the removal of___________?

_____ extractor uses centrifugal force for separating the two phases?

______ extractor is used for the concentration of radioactive nuclear waste?

?ADDUCTS? and ?CLATHRATES? are used in case of_______?

_______ column is preferred to be used, when a high liquid hold up is required in a reactor for gas-liquid reaction ?

______ temperature is the steady state temperature attained by a small amount of liquid evaporating into a large quantity of unsaturated gas-vapor mixture ?

___________ is concerned with the adsorption equilibria?

A solid is being dried in the linear drying rate regime from moisture content Xo to XF. The drying rate is zero at X = 0 and the critical moisture content is the same as the initial moisture Xo. The drying time for M = (Ls/ARc) is (where, L = total mass of dry solid, A = total surface area for drying Rc = Constant maximum drying rate per unit area X = moisture content (in mass of water/mass of dry solids)) ?

______ is used as an ?entrainer? for the separation of acetic acid-water mixture by distillation?

A pure drug is administered as a sphere and as a cube. The amount of drug is the same in the two tablets. Assuming that the shape and size do not influence the mass transfer, the ratio of rate of dissolution in water at t = 0 for the cubic to spherical tablet is_____?

________ diffusion is used for separating the isotopes of methane ?

__________ is the separation technique used for desalination of sea water ?

________ number indicates the ratio of the rates of the heat and mass transfer incase of a cooling tower?

(NSh/NRe.NSc) is termed in mass transfer operation as the _____?

Absorption factor, for a fixed degree of absorption from a fixed amount of gas should be__________?

A slurry is to be dried to produce flaky solid. Which dryer would you recommend ?

Absorption (liquid-gas system) with evolution of heat as compared to isothermal absorption results in__________?

A binary mixture of benzene and cyclohexane is separated by_____?

A plait point is the point on the solubility curve, where the tie line reduces to a point. What is the number of plait point for a ternary system containing two pairs of partially miscible liquids ?

Acetic acid will be most economically separated from a dilute solution of acetic acid in water by______?

Absorption factor method is used to calculate the number of ideal stages, when_________?

A packed tower compared to a plate tower for a particular mass transfer operation___________?

A natural draft cooling tower is filled with wooden grids, which covers about __________ percent of the tower height?

According to Chilton-Colburn analogy for mass transfer, NSt.NSc 2/3 is equal to__________?

Alcohol is dehydrated using _______ distillation?

______ is the temperature at which a gas-vapor mixture becomes saturated, when cooled at constant total pressure out of contact with a liquid ?

(NRe . NSc) is termed in mass transfer operation as the _______ number?

Absorption factor is defined as (where, S1 = slope of the operating line S2 = slope of the equilibrium curve) ______?

A good solvent used for absorption should not have very high______?

A solid material shows case hardening properties while drying. Which of the following should be controlled to control the drying process ?

Air at a particular humidity is heated in a furnace. The new dew point_______?

A 25 cm ? 25 cm ? 1 cm flat sheet weighing 1.2 kg initially was dried from both sides under constant drying rate conditions. It took 1500 seconds for the weight of the sheet to reduce to 1.05 kg. Another 1m ? 1m ? 1cm flat sheet of the same material is to be dried from one side only. Under the same constant drying rate conditions, the time required for drying (in seconds) from its initial weight of 19.2 kg to 17.6 kg is ______?

________ extractor is used for the concentration of radioactive nuclear waste?

Agitator is provided in a crystalliser for______?

Absorption accompanied by heat evolution results in______?

A solid is being dried in the linear drying rate regime from moisture content Xo to XF. The drying rate is zero at X = 0 and the critical moisture content is the same as the initial moisture Xo. The drying time for M = (Ls/ARc) is (where, L = total mass of dry solid, A = total surface area for drying Rc = Constant maximum drying rate per unit area X = moisture content (in mass of water/mass of dry solids))______?

According to Poiseuille?s law, the permeability for gas flow through a capillary is proportional to (where, ? = gas viscosity)_____?

A distillation column with N plates is being operated under normal conditions. At some point of time, the operation is shifted to total reflux condition (i.e., no product and residue are being withdrawn and feed to the column is stopped). At the new steady state ?

________ column is used in gas absorption process ?

According to the film theory of mass transfer, the mass transfer co-efficient is proportional to (where, D = molecular diffusivity) ?

A minimum boiling azeotrope is exemplified by_____?

A liquid mixture contains 30% o-xylene, 60% p-xylene and 10%. m-xylene (all percentages in w/w). Which of the following statements would be true in respect of this mixture ?

________ developed the film theory ?

_______ column is the most suitable for achieving the best performance for mass transfer operations involving liquid with dispersed solids ?

Alcohol is dehydrated using _________ distillation?

A coalescer in a mixer-settler liquid-liquid extraction column________?

Absorption accompanied with chemical reaction is exemplified by the absorption of_____?

A distillation column separates 10000 kg/hr of a benzene-toluene mixture as shown in the figure below: In the figure xF, xD and xW represent the weight fraction of benzene in the feed, distillate and residue respectively. The reflux ratio is________ ?