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Pick out the wrong statement?
  • (A)  The binary diffusivity in liquids is of the order of 10-5 cm2/sec
  • (B)  Molecular diffusion in solid is much faster than that in liquids
  • (C)  Particles movement from higher concentration to lower concentration takes place in diffusion process
  • (D)  According to Poiseuille’s law, the permeability decreases with increase in temperature for flow of a gas through a given capillary
Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to the cooling towers ?
  • (A)  In case of induced draft cooling tower, the fan is placed at the top of the tower
  • (B)  Effectiveness of forced draft cooling tower is reduced by the recirculation of the humid and hot discharged air
  • (C)  A natural draft cooling tower is recommended to be used, when the air humidity is low and air temperature is also low
  • (D)  Effectiveness of a mechanical draft cooling tower is reduced with increase in air wet-bulb temperature
Pick out the wrong statement?
  • (A)  Change in barometric pressure does not affect the relative humidity
  • (B)  In case of a packed tower, the operating velocity is about half of the flooding velocity, generally
  • (C)  ‘Elution’ means the desorption of the adsorbed solute by a solvent
  • (D)  The equilibrium moisture content of the solid can be reduced by increasing the absolute humidity
Pick out the wrong statement ?
  • (A)  A horizontal line on the humidity chart indicates the temperature changes at constant molal humidity
  • (B)  When water is cooled from 80 to 70°C by exposure to the air with a wet bulb temperature of 60°C, then both the approach & the range would be 10°C
  • (C)  For unsaturated air-water vapor mixture at atmospheric conditions, the wet bulb temperature & adiabatic cooling lines are the same
  • (D)  Relative saturation of unsaturated mixture of water vapor & air cannot be increased by either reducing the mixture temperature or by increasing the total pressure
Pick out the wrong statement?
  • (A)  The mass diffusivity, the thermal diffusivity and the eddy momentum diffusivity are the same for NSc = NPr= 1
  • (B)  1 Nm3 of dry air is lighter than 1Nm3 of humid air
  • (C)  The Lewis number of a mixture is unity, when the thermal diffusivity is equal to the mass diffusivity
  • (D)  An Azeotropic mixture of two liquids has boiling point higher than either of them, when it shows negative deviation from Raoult’s Law
Pick out the correct statement ?
  • (A)  Higher hold up of the solid in the rotary dryer results in better exposure of the solids to the gas
  • (B)  The ‘Hatta number’ is important in problems involving gas absorption without chemical reaction
  • (C)  For a non-reacting binary mixture of ideal gases, the partial pressure distribution of both components is linear in the case of steady state equimolal counter-diffusion
  • (D)  Total reflux in case of distillation operation requires infinite number of plates for a binary system separation
Pick out the wrong statement ?
  • (A)  Constant pressure distillation cannot separate an Azeotropic mixture
  • (B)  Relative volatility of a binary mixture changes appreciably with the minor change in temperature
  • (C)  The relative volatility of a binary mixture at Azeotropic composition is unity
  • (D)  Flash distillation is practised on wide spread scale in petroleum refinery