Chemical Engineering Principles

1. It is the variation of temperature with height above the ground that influences the degree of
turbulence and the speed of diffusion of in the lower air
a. Lapse Rate
b. Themal inversion
c. Temperature deviation
d. Air diffusion rate
2. Saponification of fatty acids is carried out in kettles using 12.6-14% NaOH solution. Heat is
supplied by direct steam. Kettle is kept boiling for 4 hours. After 4 hours, NaCl is added, and
boiling continued for another 4 hours. Soap separates as upper layer and glycerine and NaCl
separate as lower layer. The most economic construction material to carry out this operation is
a. Carbon Steel b. Stainless Steel c. Glass lined steel d. Stainless Steel
3. The first period of drying is called
a. Induction period b. Falling Rate Period
c. Constant Rate Period d. Unsaturated surface drying
4. It is usually constructed from old pieces of equipment that are already available and is not meant
to duplicate the exact set-up to be used in the full scale plant
a. Pilot Plant b. Commercial Development Plant c. Process Plant d. Small-scale Plant
5. It is the solid remains from the carbonization of coal, petroleum residues and other carbonaceous
materials
a. Charcoal b. Coke c. Coal Tar d. Coal
6. It is the ratio of the sizes of successive peaks
a. Overshoot b. Decay Ratio c. Period of Oscillation d. Rise time
7. The major use of butadiene is
a. As a plasticizer for unsaturated polyester
b. In the manufacture of synthetic rubber
c. As an anti-skinning agent in paint
d. As corrosion inhibitor
8. Wet solid are to be dried from 40% to 10% in 5 hrs under constant drying conditions. The critical
moisture content is 20% and the equilibrium moisture content is 7%. All moistures are on dry
basis. The time needed to dry from 15% to 5% free moisture under the same drying conditions is

a) 3.42 hrs b) 1.846 hrs

c) 0.542hr d) 2.219 hrs

9. Find the average velocity (in m/s) of a Newtonian fluid with a viscosity of 0.1 cP at laminar flow
inside a smooth, horizontal annular duct with an inside outer diameter of 2 cm and an outside
inner diameter of 4 cm. The fluid is to be transported using a pressure gradient of 2kPa over a
distance of 1 km.
a. 1 b. 0.25 c. 0.50 d. 0.75
10. It is desired to absorb 90% of the acetone in a gas containing 1 mol% acetone in air in a
countercurrent stage tower. The total inlet gas flow is 30.0 kmol/h, and the total inlet flow of pure
 water to be used is 90 kmol/h. The process is to operate isothermally at 300 K and a total pressure
of 1 atm. If the equilibrium gas-liquid relation for the acetone is given by y=2.53x, determine the
number of theoretical stages required for this separation

a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 8
11. In physical terms, Schmidt number means,
a. Thermal diffusivity/ mass diffusivity
b. Thermal diffusivity/ momentum diffusivity
c. Momentum diffusivity/ mass diffusivity
d. Mass diffusivity/ thermal diffusivity
12. In this type of filtration, the particles from the suspension, which usually has a high portion of
solids, are deposited on the surface of a porous septum which should ideally offer only a small
resistance to flow.
a. Cake filtration
b. Deep-bed filtration
c. Dead-end filtration
d. Cross-flow filtration
13. A rotary filter, operating at 0.03 Hz, filters at the rate of 0.0075 m3/s. Operating under the same
vacuum and neglecting the resistance of the filter cloth, at what speed must the filter be operated
to give a filtration rate of 0.0160 m3/s.
a. 0.136 Hz
b. 0.201 Hz
c. 0.353 Hz
d. 0.014 Hz