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Pick out the wrong statement ?
  • (A)  Cellulose acetate membranes are used in dialysis process
  • (B)  Elutriation process refers to when the soluble material is largely concentrated on the surface of an insoluble solid and is simply washed off by the solvent
  • (C)  ‘Cascade’ means a group of stages interconnected so that various streams flow from one to another
  • (D)  Zirconia probe is used for the humidity measurement
Pick out the wrong statement?
  • (A)  The operating line always lies above the equilibrium solubility curve in case of a single component absorber
  • (B)  The operating line always lies below the equilibrium solubility curve in case of a single component stripper
  • (C)  The operating pressure in solvent extraction system should be below vapor pressures of all components
  • (D)  The solubility of a particular gas in ideal solution in any solvent is always the same
Pick out the wrong statement?
  • (A)  Critical moisture content is not a property of the material itself
  • (B)  A sharp increase in pressure drop gives an indication of the flooding in a distillation column
  • (C)  Separation of components is not possible in liquid extraction, if selectivity is unity
  • (D)  Dehydration of ethyl alcohol is most economically done by molecular distillation at very high vacuum
Pick out the correct statement?
  • (A)  Diffusivity decreases with increase in temperature
  • (B)  Diffusivity increases with increase in molecular weight
  • (C)  Diffusivity increases with the size of the individual molecule
  • (D)  None of these
Pick out the correct statement ?
  • (A)  Ponchan-Savarit method is more accurate than McCabe-Thiele method to determine the number of theoretical stages required for the separation of non-ideal binary system by distillation
  • (B)  A sharp decrease in pressure drop is an indication of flooding in a distillation coloumn
  • (C)  Solvent used in extractive distillation should be of high volatility
  • (D)  Flash distillation is suitable for separating components which have very close boiling temperature
Pick out the correct statement ?
  • (A)  Dialysis process is used for the production of fresh water from brine
  • (B)  Electrodialysis is used in the manufacture of NaOH
  • (C)  Electrodialysis is used for the refining/purification of petrol
  • (D)  Both
Pick out the correct statement?
  • (A)  The slope of the stripping line is always less than unity
  • (B)  For a given separation in a binary distillation column, with increase in reflux ratio (above the minimum reflux ratio), the fixed cost of the distillation column first increases and then decreases
  • (C)  In Ponchon-Savarit method of no. of theoretical plate determination, the stripping and rectifying operating lines are vertical at total reflux
  • (D)  Kremser-Brown-Souder’s equation is used to calculate the efficiency of a plate tower