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This document contains an assignment for the NPTEL Online Certification Course on Environmental Engineering and Science, consisting of 15 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) related to fundamental concepts and calculations in environmental engineering. Each question includes options and the correct answer, along with detailed solutions for some questions. Topics covered include mass accumulation rates, gravitational energy, reactor types, and mass transport processes.

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EVS Week 4 Assignment and Solution

This document contains an assignment for the NPTEL Online Certification Course on Environmental Engineering and Science, consisting of 15 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) related to fundamental concepts and calculations in environmental engineering. Each question includes options and the correct answer, along with detailed solutions for some questions. Topics covered include mass accumulation rates, gravitational energy, reactor types, and mass transport processes.

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Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science – Fundamental and Sustainability


Concepts
Assignment- 4
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ
Number of questions: 15 Total Marks 15 x 2 = 30
1. Calculate the mass accumulation rate in the following system.

a. 20 mg/L/s
b. 30 mg/L/s
c. 40 mg/L/s
d. 10 mg/L/s

Correct Answer: - c
Detailed Solution:
Mass accumulation rate = mass flux in – mass flux out
= 50 – 10 = 40 mg/L/s
2. Calculate the change in gravitational energy of the 50 kg2 object, if the position of the
object changes from 10 m to 2.5 m vertically (g = 9.81 m/s )?
a. 5200 J
b. 4500 J
c. 3679 J
d. 3500 J

Correct Answer: - c
Detailed Solution:
Change in gravitational energy = mass(change in height) = 50 * 9.81 * (10 -2.5) = 3679 J.
3. What is control volume?
a. An imaginary boundary used to separate two systems
b. Rector of capacity 1L
c. Theoretically volume of any shape with boundaries can be used as control volume
d. None of these
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Correct Answer: - c
Detailed Solution:

4. What is the purpose of stirring in completely mixed batch reactor?


a. To maintain heterogenous mixture in the reactor
b. To maintain homogenous mixing of the desired pollutant in the reactor
c. To indicate the reactor is batch reactor
d. To indicate the reactor is plug flow reactor
Correct Answer:- b
Detailed Solution:

5. Calculate the time to reduce the concentration of pollutant A to 1% of its initial value in a
constant volume batch reactor for the reaction
AB
With reaction rate = -kCA, when k = 0.23 min-1.
a. 20 min
b. 30 min
c. 40 min
d. 50 min
Correct Answer: - a
Detailed Solution:
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6. Which of the following reactors produce high removal efficiency for a given volume of the reactor?
a. Batch reactor
b. Plugflow reactor
c. Completely mixed batch reactor
d. Continuously stirred tank reactor
Correct Answer: - b
Detailed Solution:
At high fractional conversion values, the volume required for a CSTR increases rapidly
compared the the volume of a PFR. If reactor volume is the only criterion for deciding the type
of reactor to use, clearly PFRs are the optimal choice
7. Calculate the flow rate of the CMBR if the volume of the reactor is 100 m3 and the retention time is 5
days?

a. 20 m3/day
b. 50 m3/day
c. 25 m3/day
d. 10 m3/day
Correct Answer: - a
Detailed Solution:
Flow rate = V/T = 100/5 = 20 m3/day
8. Determine the volume of the Plug flow reactor to obtain the effluent concentration of 50 mg/L by
assuming the flow rate of 100 m3/day and first order decay rate constant of k = 0.23/day and influent
concentration is 200 mg/L?
a. 603 m3
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b. 500 m3
c. 850 m3
d. 900 m3
Correct Answer: - d
Detailed Solution:

V = -Ln(50/200)*100/0.23 = 603 m3

9. Which of the following is not true regarding plug flow reactor (PFR)?
a. Inter mixing of particles will happen in the PFR
b. Inter mixing of particles will not happen in the PFR
c. Length > > width of the reactor
d. The pollutant concentration is less at the effluent end than the influent end
Correct Answer:- a
Detailed Solution:

10. In which type of reactor Fluid particles that enter the reactor are instantaneously dispersed
throughout the reactor volume?

a. Batch reactor
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b. Plug flow reactor


c. Continuous stirred tank reactor
d. Sequential Batch reactor
Correct Answer: - c
Detailed Solution:

11. _____________ is the dimensionless quantity used to find the laminar flow pattern of the
flow.
a. Vortex number
b. Reynolds number
c. Viscosity number
d. None of the above
Correct Answer: - b
Detailed Solution:

12. What are the different mass transport processes?


a. Diffusion
b. Dispersion
c. Advection
d. All the above
Correct Answer: d
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Detailed Solution:
Diffusion, dispersion and advection are the three different transport process of the pollutant.

13. ______________ is due to the random fluctuation in advective velocity.


a. Turbulent diffusion
b. Diffusion
c. Dispersion
d. Laminar dispersion
Correct Answer: - a
Detailed Solution:

14. The rate of diffusion of a substance across unit area (such as a surface or membrane) is
proportional to the concentration gradient. The above statement is related to which law?
a. Stokes law
b. Gravitational law
c. Ficks law
d. First of law of thermodynamics
Correct Answer: c
Detailed Solution:

15. Which of the following statements is/are correct?


a. Without atmosphere earth’s surface would be cooler than today
b. Water vapour is a green house
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c. Both a & b
d. Neither a nor b
Correct Answer: - c
Detailed Solution:

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