Drdo Examination Question Paper Year 2009
Drdo Examination Question Paper Year 2009
Drdo Examination Question Paper Year 2009
Section – A
4. A flue gas analysis gave 10% O2, 25% CO2 and 65% N2 at 160 °C and 760 mm
Hg. The ratio of partial pressures of CO2 to O2 is equal to
(C) P = ρ h (D) P = γ h
(A) (B)
(C) (D)
Statement for Linked Answer – Questions 9 and 10:A system is taken from state A to state B
along path ACB where 100 J of heat
flows into the system and the system does 40 J of work.
9. How much heat flows into the system along path AEB if the work
done by the system is 20 J?
10. The system returns from B to A along path BDA. If the work done on
the system is 30 J, what will be the amount of heat liberated/generated?
Statement for Linked Answer – Questions 14 and 15: reversible heat engine absorbs 800 kJ as
heat from a reservoir at 600 K and
rejects 100 kJ energy as heat to a reservoir at 300 K, as shown in the following
figure.
18. The following equations have been proposed for an isothermal binary
solution where the standard states are the pure components at the solution
temperature and pressure: γ1 = Ax1; γ2 = Bx2
H2O(1) H2O(g) ΔH = 50 kJ
20. The decrease in the Helmholtz Free Energy for system in a given
process for which initial and final temperatures are equal to the surrounding
temperature indicates.
21. The vapor pressures of benzene and toluene at 70 °C are 4 and 6 atm,
respectively. A liquid feed of 0.6 moles of toluene at the same temperature is
vaporized. Assuming Raoult’s law, the vapor phase mole fraction of benzene at
equilibrium is approximately.
(A) 312 kPa (B) 624 kPa (C) 89 kPa (D) 178 kPa
25. Assuming that the thrust T of a propeller depends upon the diameter
D, speed of advance V, angular velocity ω, dynamic viscosity μ, and density ρ,
which of the following dimensionless parameters can be derived by dimensionless
analysis?
26. The velocity profile u in the boundary layer over a flat plate is
given by . where U is the free stream velocity, y is the vertical distance of
the velocity point from the flat plate and δ is the boundary layer thickness.
The displacement thickness of the boundary layer is
(A) 3600 N/m2 (B) 7200 N/m2 (C) 6000 N/m2 (D) 3000 N/m2
33. In a dry crushing operation the mean diameter of the feed and
product particles are 100 mm and 1 mm, respectively. The sphericity of the feed
and product particles are 0.5 and 1.0, respectively. If the feed particles of
200 mm diameter with the same sphericity are handled at the same feed rate, what
will be the percentage increase in power requirement assuming that the product
remains the same?
(B) The shear rate inside the boundary layer is not zero
(C) The boundary layer thickness increases with distance from the leading
edge
(D) The flow in the boundary layer close to the leading edge is turbulent
(A) V = 2 yi – 2x .j
(B) V = 2 xi – 3y,j
(C) V = xy i – xy j
(D) V = xy i + xy j
39. What will happen to the heat loss if foam insulation, with thermal
conductivity 0.09 W/m-K is added to a 5 cm outer diameter pipe carrying hot
water? (Heat transfer coefficient on the outer surface = 10 W/m2-K)
40. Biot number (hL/k) is important for which mode of heat transfer?
(D) disappears
45. When some liquid nitrogen spills on the floor of a laboratory, the
droplets move so briskly that they appear to be dancing before they disappear.
This phenomenon
49. The eddy momentum diffusivity, the thermal diffusivity and the mass
diffusivity will be same for most of the gases when
51. For the flow of a fluid at right angles to a circular cylinder, the
average heat transfer coefficient around the periphery is given by Nu = a + b
Re”‘ Pr”, where, Nu is Nusselt Number, Sh is Sherwood Number, Pr is Prandtl
Number, Sc is Schmidt Number and a, b, m, n are constants. The analogous
expression for the mass transfer can be expressed as
Statement for Linked Answer – Questions 52 and 53: A horizontal spray chamber with
recirculated water is used for adiabatic
humidification and cooling of air. Air with humidity of 0.01 kg water per kg of
dry air is entering the unit with a flow rate of 2 kg/m2-s. The humidity of exit
stream is 0.02 kg water per kg of dry air. The active part of the chamber is 1.0
m long. placementpapers.net The humidity at the saturated condition is 0.03 kg water per kg of
dry
air.
54. A saturated liquid mixture with 50% (mole basis) of more volatile
component is to be separated in a continuous distillation column. The mole% of
more volatile component in the distillate is 90. The constant relative
volatility of more volatile component is 1.5. Assuming McCabe-Thiele method, the
minimum reflux ratio for this operation is
55. In a perfectly mixed flow model, the ratio of the Murphree plate
efficiency to the point efficiency is equal to
Statement for Linked Answer – Questions 56 and 57: A waste stream of organic vapor in a
gas from a process was adsorbed by solid
particles in packed bed of length 20 cm. The breakpoint concentration is set at
C/C0 = 0.10 and the breakpoint time is 4 hours.
56. What will be the time equivalent to the unusable capacity of the
bed up to the breakpoint time?
57. The stoichiometric capacity of the bed is 7.2 hours. What will be
the length of unused bed for this operation?
59. A batch of wet solid is to be dried from 80% to 50% moisture (wet
basis). The drying surface is 1 m2/10 kg of dried solid. The drying takes place
within the constant rate period. The constant flux of drying is 0.3 x 10-3
kg/m2-s. The drying time is
(A) 102 s (B) 103 s (C) 104 s (D) 105 s
61. If L is the liquid flow rate. G is the gas flow rate and m is the
slope of the equilibrium line, the absorption factor is
65. The response curve for a step input signal from a reactor is called
C curve. The variance of C curve in a `tank in series model’ comprising of `n’
tanks is
66. Calculate the weight of the catalyst required for the 75%
conversion of sample A (CAO = 8 mol/m3) in a mixed flow reactor at a flow rate
of 1000 mole/min.
(The weight time of the operation is 4.15 kg s/m3)
Statement for Linked Answer – Questions 68 and 69: placementpapers.net Aqueous phase
decomposition of A is investigated in two mixed flow reactors
in series. The second reactor is having twice the volume of the first reactor.
At steady state with a feed of 1 mole/litre and mean residence time of 96
seconds in first reactor, the concentration of A in the first reactor is 0.5
mol/litre and in the second 0.25 mol/litre.
70. For a zero order reaction in a varying volume batch reactor, the
correct equation is
72. For a particular reaction where order of the reaction is less than
one, the CORRECT sequence of reactors for efficient use is
(A) Small MFR, Large MFR, PFR (B) Large MFR, Small MFR,
PFR
(C) PFR, Large MFR. Small MFR (D) PFR, Small MFR, Large
MFR
Statement for Linked Answer – Questions 74 and 75: Chemical A reacts to form R (k1 = 8 hr-
1) and chemical R reacts to form S (k2
= 3 hr-1). In addition R slowly decomposes to form T (k3 = 1 hr-1). A solution
containing 1 mol/litre of A is introduced into a batch reactor.
75. How long will it take (in hours) for R to reach its maximum
concentration?
80. What will be the maximum value of K(such that a closed loop system
having the following characteristic equation is stable ?
(A) = KC (1 + τD S + τD S) (B) = KC + τD + τD S
(C) = KC (D) =
82. For the block diagram shown below what will be the overall transfer
function for the change in set point (U = 0)?
(A) = (B) =
|(C) = (D) =
(A) 1-P, 2-Q, 3-R. 4-S (B) 1-Q, 2-P, 3-R, 4-S
(C) 1-S, 2-R, 3-P, 4-Q (D) 1-R, 2-Q, 3-S, 4-P
89. A chemical company has purchased leaf pressure filters with 100 ft2
for purifying an inorganic liquid stream at the cost of Rs. 15000. In a similar
application the company will need 900 ft2 leaf pressure filter.
placementpapers.net The size
exponent of this type of filter is 0.5. The purchased price of the 900 ft2
filter will be
90. Which of the following results in book values greater than those
obtained with the straight line method?
(A) 1-P, 2-R, 3-Q, 4-S (B) 1-P, 2-Q, 3-R, 4-S
(C) 1-S, 2-R, 3-Q, 4-P (D) 1-R, 2-S, 3-P, 4-Q
(C) 1-R, 2-S, 3-Q, 4-P (D) 1-P, 2-Q, 3-R, 4-S
(A) 1-S, 2-P, 3-Q, 4-R (B) 1-S, 2-R, 3-Q, 4-P
(C) 1-Q, 2-S, 3-P, 4-R (D) 1-R, 2-S, 3-P, 4-Q