ChE 520L: Chemical Engineering – MOCK BOARD 2

FLUID MECHANICS D. pastes

1. A 34.
The difference between the water levels in the filter chamber and
the outlet chamber is known as
2. Water at 80OF flows at 10 ft per second through a 6-in
Schedule 40 steel pipe with length of 1000 ft. the Reynolds A. Negative Head
number is B. Pressure Head
a) 334,0000 b) 255,000 c) 500,000 d) 30,000 C. Working Head
3. What is the entrance length in a 2-in Schedule 40 pipe if the D. Static Head
Reynolds number is 1800? 35.
a) 10 ft b) 8 ft c) 17 ft d) 25 ft 37.
4. The absolute pressure exerted by water 2m below the The unit operation by which soluble components of a liquid mixture
surface of a swimming pool is are dissolved in a liquid that is partially immiscible with the other
a) 20 kPa b) 200 kPa c) 120 kPa d) 400 kPa components is
5. A device used to measure gage pressure of fluids in a tank.
a) Bourdon tube c) Diaphragm A. Solvent extraction
b) Venturi meter d) Bellow B. Leaching
C. adsorption
D. absorption
HUMIDIFICATION 38.
6. An air-carbon tetrachloride-vapor mixture at 100OF dry buld For an air flow rate of 5000lb/hr and a water flow rate of 7500
temperature and 60OF wet bulb is heated until the lb/hr, the temperature of the cold water is 80OF using air with
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temperature reaches 180 F. The final percentage relative temperature of 90OF dry bulb and 70OF wet bulb. The estimated
humidity is about inlet temperature of water for these conditions is
a) 10% b) 2% c) 28% d) 5%
7. If 100 lb of dry air at 50OF dry bulb and 50OF wet bulb is A. 84OF
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mixed with 300 lb of dry air at 110 F dry bulb and 80 F wet B. 98OF
bulb, the resulting mixture has a dry bulb temperature of C. 88OF
a) 80OF b) 85OF c) 90OF d) 95OF D. none
39.
8. The process which illustrates the principle of adiabatic If the motion of a particle is impeded by other particles, which will
humidification is happen when the particles are near each other even though they
a) cooling tower c) packed tower are not actually colliding?
b) heated tower d) spray chamber
A. Free settling
B. Unhindered settling
LEACHING C. Compression settling
1. A unit operation in which a soluble component is removed from D. Hindered settling
an inert solid by a solvent which preferentially dissolves the 40.
soluble matter from the mixture is known as Extraction of coffee from seed is done by
a) adsorption c) leaching
b) solvent extraction d) sedimentation A. Liquid-liquid extraction
30. B. Extractive distillation
The rate of leaching increase with increasing C. Steam distillation
D. Leaching
A. temperature A
B. pressure A.
C. viscosity of solvent
D. size of solid 42.
33. A.
Drum driers are used for drying 43.
The diffusivity of the air in ethyl alcohol at 25OC and 3 atm in
A. slurries ft2/hr is
B. gases
C. pharmaceutical
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A. 0.1744 C. 15%
B. 1.569 D. 30%
C. 0.523 53.
D. none Stream retained at the low pressure side of the membrane.
44.
For a cooling tower with a circulating tower is much less compared A. Permeate
to that of a gas absorber because B. Retentate
C. Osmotic flow
A. 85 gpm D. Osmotic pressure
B. 25 gpm 54.
C. 110 gpm The part of the deviation of the response which approaches zero
D. none as time approaches infinity.
45.
A. A. Steady state response
46. B. Output
This type of drier is used for drying pasty materials such as wet C. transient response
filter cakes and lumpy solids D. overdamped
56.
A. Rotary drier 57.
B. Flash drier A.
C. Tray drier 58.
D. Continuous A solid material containing 120% moisture on a dry basis, the
47. equivalent moisture content on a wet basis in percent moisture is
In a motion of a particle through fluids, force act on a particle
moving through a fluid. The force is called A. 20
B. 12
A. gravitational C. 49
B. centrifugal D. 54.5
C. drag A.
D. buoyant 60.
48. A.
50. 61.
There are 30 kg of solute in 100 liters of water, the weight of An indication of the moisture content of ambient air is its
solute that will be extracted by 35 liters of ether if the
distribution coefficient, k = 4 is A. Dry bulb
B. Wet bulb
A. 3 kg C. Ambient
B. 2 kg D. Dew point
C. 3.45 kg 62.
D. 2.45 kg Air, supplied at the rate of 1200 cfm to a refrigerated coil has a
51. relative humidity of 20% and dry bulb temperature of 150OF. The
The bursting pressure of a pipe is directly proportional to its mass flow rate of dry air entering per minute is

A. Schedule number A. 74.3

B. Inside diameter B. 75.0
C. Outside diameter C. 78.50
D. Length D. 75.26
52. 63.
Benzoic acid is 9 times more soluble in chloroform than in water. An endothermic reaction is carried out in a jacketed reaction
The percent benzoic acid that will remain from a water solution of vessel with initial charge of 500 lbs consisting only of reactants.
benzoic acid if equal amounts of chloroform and water were used is The feed charge temperature is 680F. The reaction is carried out
for 2 hours. Heat is supplied to the reactor by condensing
A. 10% saturated steam at 4500F in the jacket. The reaction mass
B. 20% absorbs heat at 991 BTU/lb of charge during the reaction and heat
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losses are 8000 BTU/h of reaction time. At the end of 2 hours, B. Chemisorptions
the temperature of reaction mass is 2120F. Under these C. Adsorption
conditions, the steam usage (lb/batch) is near to D. Leaching
72.
A. 772 Which of the following isotherm best describes the mechanism in
B. 824 softening through Ion exchange?
C. 863
D. 916 A. Langlier Index
64. B. Freundlich
65. C. Langmuir
A control structure with two feedback controllers with the output D. All
of the primary controller changing the set point of the secondary 73.
controller whose output goes to the final controller. 74.
The formation of new solid phase either on an inert particle in the
A. Feedforward solution or in the solution itself is called
B. Cascade control
C. Feedbackward A. Crystal growth
D. Fuzzy logic B. precipitation
66. C. nucleation
Equipment that crystallizes a material whose solubility is D. seeding
independent of temperature. 75.
Inversions aloft are associated with sinking air that characterizes
A. Vacuum crystallizer centers of
B. Crystallizing evaporator
C. Vacuum evaporator A. Low pressure
D. Oslo crystallizer B. Ambient air
67. C. Air sink
Drag coefficient CD is given by the Stoke’s Law range D. High pressure
76.
A. CD = 16 /Re Which of the following is used to separate suspended solids from
B. CD = 18.4/Re the water?
C. CD = 24/Re
D. CD = 0.079/Re A. MF
68. B. HF
Which of the following is the commonly used polymer type resin in C. NF
ion exchange? D. RO
77.
A. Divinylbenzene How long could a 2000 hp motor be operated on the heat energy
B. polyethylene liberated by 1m3 of ocean water when the temperature of the
C. polystyrene water is lowered by 1OC and if all these heat were converted to
D. polypropylene mechanical energy?
69.
70. A. 371.56 yrs
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The solubility of soda ash at 30 C in g/100g water is B. 245.65 yrs
C. 210.92 yrs
A. 9.6 D. 177.42 yrs
B. 21.5 78.
C. 11.1 79.
D. 38.3 What is kaolinite?
71.
A unit operation wherein specific components of a fluid phase are A. Magnesium silicate
preferentially adhered to the surface of the solid. B. MgSO4.7H2O
C. KCl
A. Absorption D. Aluminum silicate
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80. pressure drop of 0.5 inch water per foot of packing, the diameter
In a multicomponent system, the mass flux depends both on the (inch) of the column will most nearly be
mechanical driving forces and on the temperature gradient or
“thermal – diffusion effect”. What is the other term for thermal – A. 18
diffusion effect? B. 24
C. 30
A. Soret effect D. 36
B. Dufour effect 89.
C. Tracer effect Out of the following, the depreciation calculated by the
D. Coriolis Effect __________ method is the maximum
81.
A. diminishing balance
In industrial crystallization from a solution, the two phase mixture B. straight line
of mother liquor and crystals of all sizes, which occupies the C. sum of the years digit
crystallizer and is withdrawn as product is called D. sinking fund
a) Product crystals 90.
b) Invariant crystals The increase in the area of a solid on heating is called
c) Mother liquor
d) magma A. Cubical expansion
B. Superficial expansion
82. C. Linear expansion
84. D. None
The difference of wet bulb temperature and adiabatic saturation 92.
temperature of unsaturated mixture of any system is A porous material dries in the open air at a rate approximately
proportional to its moisture content. If a sheet hangs in the wind
A. positive lost half of its free moisture in the first hour, when will it have
B. negative lost 99% with the weather conditions remaining the same?
C. zero
D. no change A. 7.5 hours
85. B. 8.67 hours
The theoretical minimum work required to separate one mole of a C. 6.67 hours
liquid mixture at 1 atm, containing 50 mole % each of n- heptane D. 450 min
and n- octane into pure compounds each at 1 atm is 93.
Device in which a current of air separates particles with different
A. -2 RTln 0.5 sedimentation velocities.
B. -RTln 0.5
C. 0.5 RT A. Agitator
D. 2 RT B. Air elutriator
86. C. Classifier
If pressure constant, to double the volume the mass of an ideal gas D. Air conveyor
at 27°C, the temperature should be raised to ___ °C 97.
It is defined as the efficiency of technical grinding compared with
A. 270 that of laboratory crushing experiment.
B. 300
C. 327 A. grinding efficiency
D. 540 B. bond work index
87. C. Rittinger’s number
A packed tower is to be designed to be designed to treat 30,000 D. Practical energy efficiency
ft3 of gas per hour to remove NH3 from it. The ammonia content 98.
of the gas is 5% by volume. Ammonia free water will be used as A flotation modifier which assists in selectivity or stop unwanted
absorbent. Temperature is 680F, the pressure 15 psia. Ratio of minerals from floating is
the liquid to gas flowrates is 1. 1 ½” Ceramic Intalox Saddles (Fp =
52) will be used as packing. If the column is to be designed for a A. Depressants
B. Activators
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C. Promoters
D. Regulators
100.
For measuring liquid level in an inaccessible underground tank, the
scheme as shown in the figure below is employed. The manometer
fluid has a density of 2.5 g/ml while that of the liquid in the tank is
1.05 g/ml. Air flow is controlled so that the frictional, contraction
and expansion losses in the feed line amount to 1.34 inches head of
the liquid in the tank. Velocity in ¼ inch tubing is 2.9 ft/s and that
in ½ inch pipe is 0.28 ft/s. Density of air is 0.0754 lb/ft 3. If the
manometer shows a 6 inch differential, what is the level of liquid
from the bottom of the tank in inches.

A. 20
B. 16
C. 13
D. 17