OBJECTIVE QUESTIONNAIRE

RAHUL MODI: 2014UCH1608

1) Which is the most ideal feedstock for the coking process used for the
manufacture of the Petroleum coke?
(a) Naphtha (b) Vacuum Residue
(c) Light Gas Oil (d) Diesel

2) Crude Oils produced by the Indian Oil Fields are predominantly _______ in
nature.
(a) Paraffinic (b) Naphthenic
(c) Mixed Base (d) Asphaltic

3) Glycol added to petrol acts as an _______ agent.

(a) Anti-knocking (b) Anti-icing
(c) Anti-gum forming (d) De-waxing

4) Products drawn from top to bottom of the Crude Oil Distillation Column have
progressively increasing:
(a) Boiling Point (b) Molecular Weight
(c) C/H ratio (d) All of the above

5) What is Drilling Mud used for?

(a) Ballast on Drillship
 (b) Stabilize the drilling rig to prevent shifting and listing
(c) Control downhole pressure and remove cuttings
(d) Prevent Natural Gas from sweeping back to the form

6) Which one of the following is an Endothermic process?

(a) Catalytic Cracking (b) Hydrocracking
(c) Catalytic Polymerization (d) Thermal Reforming

7) Mercaptans are added to the LPG to

(a) Reduce Pumping cost (b) Narrow down its explosion limit
(c) Assist in detection of leakage (d) increase it Calorific Value

8) A good lubricant should have high:

(a) Viscosity Index (b) Pour Point
(c) Volatility (d) None of these

9) In SulFerox process, Fe3+ is chelated with:

(a) Diethyl Ether (b) Nitrotriacetic acid(NTA)
(c) Triethylene Glycol (d) Carbazole

10) Catalyst used in catalytic reforming is:

(a) Nickel (b) Aluminium Chloride
(c) Platinum &/or Rhenium on Alumina (d) Iron on Molybdenum
 Numerical Problems
11) Determine the propagation velocity of a given Lubricant sample, given that:
a = 0.11, k = 0.75, E = 8300 kJ/kg, R = 8.314 kPa.m3/(mol.k).
(a) 1.2 m/s (b) 0.12 m/s (c) 1.5m/s (d) 2.2m/s

12) If 100 kg/hr of air supply is required to a furnace having oil of Wobbe Index
8100 kcal/m3, what will be the required air supply (in kmoles/hr) at Wobbe Index
of 11800 kcal/m3?
(a) 2.86 (b) 1.57 (c) 3.82 (d) 5.69

13) For a Fuel sample with average Molar mass of 116g /mol , the molar Air-Fuel
ratio is found to be 260. Determine the excess factor.
(a)0.48 (b) 0.54 (c) 0.41 (d) 0.67

14) A mixture of 45 mole percent n-hexane and 55 mole percent n-heptane is

subjected to continuous fractionation in a tray column at 1atm pressure. The feed is
saturated liquid. The distillate contains 95% n-hexane and the residue contains 5%
n-hexane. Determine the number of ideal trays required using Fenske equation,
Given that average relative Volatility is 2.36.
(a) 4.7 (b) 20 (c) 10.5 (d) 5.86

15) What will be the heat loss (in kJ/kg) in flue gas combustion for the following
data:
V = 200 m3, Cp = 2.43kJ/kg.K, = 1 kg/m3, T1= 843K, T2 = 1573K, W = 40 kg, Hf2
=2543 kJ/kg, Hf1 = 2147 kJ/kg.
(a) 295478 (b) 548725 (c) 370620 (d) 236547
16) What will be the efficiency of combustion of fuel which has 1843 kcal/kg
Potential in gasified form; Potential in flue gas and Refuse being 426 kcal/kg and
253 kcal/kg respectively?
(a) 58.26 (b) 73.54 (c) 63.16 (d) 43.39

17) A heated grey body maintained at 900 R emits heat to another heat sink
through an area of 1 m2 such that Power radiated from the object is 2005W. Find
the temperature of the sink.
(a) 540 R (b) 600 R (c) 355 R (d) 830 R

18) A crude oil is drilled through a circular pipe. What will be its average velocity
(km/hr) if the Pressure drop is 2 atm and pipe radius and length are 1m and 1km
respectively? Given that viscosity of the given Oil is 2 Poise. Assume laminar
flow through pipe.

(a) 15.67 (b) 26.87 (c) 2.85 (d) 45.59

19) Determine the latent heat of Petroleum (in Btu/lbm) at T = 75 F and Specific
Gravity of 0.923.

(a) 112.84 (b) 243.67 (c)173.98 (d) 88.07

20) Determine Sulfur percent in lignite coal, given that Weight of coal sample =
100gm and weight of precipitate formed after treatment with BaCl2 = 400gm.
(C =10%, H = 12%, N=11%).

(a) 58.55 (b) 65.72 (c) 79.76 (d) 54.96