Chemical Engineering Mcqs

Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to the comparative evaluation of performance of the packed tower and the plate tower ?
  • (A)  Plate tower is preferred, if interstage cooling is required to remove heats of reaction or solution
  • (B)  Plate tower is preferred over packed tower, if the operation involves liquids containing dispersed solids
  • (C)  The total weight of a dry plate tower is usually much more than that of a dry packed tower designed for the same duty
  • (D)  In operations involving large temperature changes. (
  • (E)  g. distillation), plate towers are preferred over packed towers as the packing may be crushed due to large temperature changes
In case of design of a shell and tube heat exchanger___________________?
  • (A)  Minimum cleaning lane of 6.5 mm is provided, when tubes are on a square pitch
  • (B)  Minimum tube sheet thickness (in which tubes are fixed) is equal to the O.D. of the tube upto 15 mm tube diameter; and for > 15 mm tube diameter, tube sheet thickness is smaller than tube diameter
  • (C)  O.
  • (D)  of the tube is 6 to 40 mm while the tube lengths used are 0.5, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6 metres