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Engineering Chemistry 1-Question Bank-1st Edition: Unit - 1 Water Technology

This document contains questions about water treatment technologies and processes. It includes questions about hard and soft water, water hardness, alkalinity, potable water requirements, boiler feed water requirements, boiler problems like scaling and sludge, corrosion prevention, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, disinfection, and the use of compounds and resins in water treatment. The questions cover topics like water testing, EDTA titration, ion exchange resins, reverse osmosis membranes, and methods for treating water for drinking and boiler applications.

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Engineering Chemistry 1-Question Bank-1st Edition: Unit - 1 Water Technology

This document contains questions about water treatment technologies and processes. It includes questions about hard and soft water, water hardness, alkalinity, potable water requirements, boiler feed water requirements, boiler problems like scaling and sludge, corrosion prevention, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, disinfection, and the use of compounds and resins in water treatment. The questions cover topics like water testing, EDTA titration, ion exchange resins, reverse osmosis membranes, and methods for treating water for drinking and boiler applications.

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Engineering Chemistry 1–Question Bank–1st

Edition
ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY –I
QUESTION BANK
(COMMON TO FIRST YR – ALL BRANCHES)
UNIT  –  1 WATER TECHNOLOGY
PART - A
1. Differentiate hard water and soft water.
2. Define hardness.
3. What are the types of hardness? Differentiate them.
4. What are the tests for hardness?
5. Why hardness is expressed in CaCO3 equivalent?
6. What is EDTA? Write its structure?
7. What is the principle behind EDTA titration?
8. What is alkalinity? What are the possible reasons for alkalinity?
9. Give any four requirements for potable water?
10. What is boiler feed water? What are the basic requirements?
11. What are boiler problems? Name any 4 boiler problems?
12. Differentiate scales and sludge?
13. What is caustic embrittlement? How will you prevent it?
14. What is carry over? How will you prevent it?
15. What are the reasons for boiler corrosion?
16. What are boiler compounds?
17. How calgon conditioning is superior than other methods?
18. Why phosphate conditioning is preferred over carbonate conditioning?
19. What are the chemicals used for regeneration of ion exchange resins?
20. Give the name of membranes used in reverse osmosis process?
21. Give the advantages of RO process and ion exchange process?
22. What is break point chlorination? What is its significance?
23. What is disinfection? What are the different methods of disinfection?
24. Why a soft water need not be demineralised water but a DM is always soft
water.
25. Give two examples for Cation exchange and anion exchange resins?
PART- B
1. How the alkalinity of a water sample is estimated volumetrically?
2. Explain the aim, principle, procedure, calculation involved in EDTA
method?
3. Write a note of boiler problems?
4. What is ion exchange method? Explain the concept.
5. What is reverse osmosis? Bring out the methodology behind it.
6. How will you treat the water for drinking purpose?
7. What are boiler compounds? How are they used in internal water
treatment?

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