Mass Transfer Quiz 2

Capacity of a rotary dryer depends on its ___________?

Compound A is extracted from a solution of A + B into a pure solvent S. A Co-current unit is used for the liquid-liquid extraction. The inlet rate of the solution containing A is 200 moles of B/hr.m2 and the solvent flow, rate is 400 moles of S/m2. hr. The equilibrium data is represented by Y = 3X2 , where Y is in moles of a A/moles of B and X is in moles A/moles of S. The maximum percentage extraction achieved in the unit is___________?

As per Gilliland?s equation, the diffusivity is_____?

Coffee is prepared from coffee beans by leaching with______?

At 750?K and 1 atm, the approximate value of Schmidt number for air is__________?

At the same gas flow rate, the pressure drop in a packed tower being irrigated with liquid ________ that in dry packed tower ?

Ammonia present in the coke oven gas is removed by washing with_____?

All moisture in a non-hygroscopic material is the _________ moisture?

At a fixed total pressure, humidity depends only on the _________?

At equilibrium the concentration of water in vapour phase (C*) in kg/m3 of air space and the amount of water (m) adsorbed per kg of dry silica gel are related by, C* = 0.0667m. To maintain dry conditions in a room of air space 100m3 containing 2.2 kg of water vapour initially, 10 kg of dry silica gel is kept in the room. The fraction of initial water remaining in the air space after a long time (during which the temperature is maintained constant) is__________?

An aqueous solution of methanol is to be distilled in a tray column. High pressure steam is available as a source of heat. For a given reflux ratio and overhead composition, two options are being explored; (i) a reboiler is used and (ii) no reboiler is used but steam is fed directly to the bottom of the column. As compared to option (i), in option (ii) ______?

At a given equilibrium pressure, with increase in temperature, the concentration of adsorbed gas on solid adsorbent ___________?

At constant pressure, with increase of temperature, the dew point will __________?

Ammonia present in the coke oven gas is removed by washing with_____?

Blowdown in a cooling tower___________?

An ideal tower packing should not _________?

At the boiling point of the liquid at the prevailing pressure, the saturated absolute humidity becomes________?

Blowdown in a cooling tower______?

At ___________ reflux, theoretical number of plates in a distillation coloumn is calculated using Fenske-Underwood equation?

Corresponding to Prandtl number in heat transfer, the dimensionless group in mass transfer is the ________ number?

Can the efficiency of a plate in the distillation tower be greater than 100% ?

As the reflux ratio in a distillation column is increased from the minimum, the________?

Bollman extractor_____?

At what percentage (by volume) of alcohol composition, it forms an azeotrope with water ?

Corresponding to Nusselt number in heat transfer, the dimensionless group in mass transfer is the _________ number?

An example of elution is________?

Azeotropism for ethyl alcohol-water system disappears by_______?

Batch tray dryers suffers from the disadvantage of________?

As the reflux ratio decreases, the__________?

Boiling point diagram is not affected by the ambient________?

At a fixed pressure, the humidity depends upon the partial pressure of vapor in the mixture. Humidity of a vapour free gas is _________ percent.?

Calculation of mass transfer co-efficient is mostly/normally done using _______ theory?

Back-trapping in a distillation column ?

At what value of reflux ratio, number of theoretical plates in a distillation column is minimum ?

Condensation of a vapour-gas mixture just begins, when (where, p = partial pressure of the vapour P = vapour pressure of the liquid) ?

At the boiling point of the liquid at the prevailing pressure, the saturated absolute humidity becomes_______?

Channelling is most severe_______?

An Azeotropic mixture is a _________ mixture?

Can the efficiency of a plate in the distillation tower be greater than 100% ?

CO2 can be absorbed by______?

Berl saddle made of carbon cannot be used for _____?

Binary distillation involves the mass transfer by ________ at the gas-liquid interface?

At minimum reflux ratio for a given separation___________?

Can a cooling tower cool water below the wet bulb temperature of inlet air ?

Calcium ammonium nitrate (a fertiliser) is dried in a __________ dryer?

Bound moisture is that liquid which exerts an equilibrium vapor pressure _________ that of the pure liquid at the given temperature ?

Co-current absorbers are usually used when the gas to be dissolved in the liquid is _____?

Channelling in a packed tower results from the_______?

As complete saturation of an adsorbent is approached, the differential heat of adsrop-tion approaches ______?

Below is given an equilibrium moisture curve of a substance. State which regions represent free moisture and unbound moisture respectively ?