Department of Chemical Engineering

BITS-Pilani , Hyderabad campus

CHE F341:CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY-II
Lab QuizI(SCEO lab)
Answer all questions
All questions carry same marks

Duration: 45min Note: Please Answer only in the blank provided Date:25/2/16
Max.Marks:45 Weightage: 15%

1. In the emissivity measurement apparatus, the device used to adjust the input voltage is _________________________.

2. The emissivity of a test plate if diameter of the plate is 160 mm; Voltage of black plate is 60 V; Current of black plate is 0.46 A;
Voltage of test plate is 53 V; Current of test plate is 0.41 A; Steady state temperature is 85oC; Ambien t temperature is 34 oC) is
_______________________________________ .

3. The value of the Stefan-Boltzmann constant is _______________________ .

4. In emissivity experiment, the emissivity of the unknown plate is measured when the two plates are in ……………equilibrium.

5. At thermal equilibrium the ratio of the total emissive power to the absorptivity for all bodies is the same. This statement is known as
_________________________ .

6. The material of construction of heater used in batch crystallizer in the lab is _________________.

7.150 kg of solution of MgSO4.7H2O in water is heated to 90oC and cooled to 25oC respectively. The solubility of the MgSO4.7H2O in
water at 90oC is 70 gr per 100 gr of solution and at 25oC is 30 gr per 100 gr of solution respectively. The obtained weight of mother
liquor is 55 kgs. Assume that losses due to handling are negligible. The weight of MgSO4.7H2O in the wet crystals
is_________________________.

8. The process of generation of new solid particles in crystallization operation is called ____________________.

9. In a crystallization operation, 150 kg of solution of MgSO 4.7H2O in water is heated to 90oC and cooled to 25oC respectively. The
solute content in the feed solution is 55% (by weight). The obtained weight of wet crystals is 60 kgs with a moisture content of
15% (by weight). The %recovery of the solute after complete drying is _________________________ .

10. In a crystallization operation, 150 kg of solution of MgSO4.7H2O in water is heated to 90oC and cooled to 25oC respectively. The
water content in the feed solution is 55% (by weight). The obtained weight of wet crystals is 60 kgs with a moisture content of
15% (by weight). The weight of water in mother liquor is ________________________ .

11. During constant rate drying period, vaporization rate per unit drying surface area _________________ with time.

12. The size range of particles to be dried using fluidized bed is ______________ mm.

13. In your fluidized bed dryer, the device used to collect the entrained particles is _____________________________.

14.In fluidized bed dryer, the air velocity is greater than _____________________ of the particles.

15.A wet solid is to be dried from 80% to 10% moisture on wet basis. If the weight of the dry solid is 1000kg , the amount of water
removed is _____________________________ kg.

16. Of the two type of dryers present in the lab, ______________________dryer would be used to dry a heat sensitive material.

17. In constant rate drying period the water is removed from ___________________of the solid.

18. For a given temperature and relative humidity, _____________moisture content is maximum amount of moisture content to
which a solid can be dried at given conditions.
19._______________ type of controller (Process control ) is used to control the temperature in natural draft dryer experiment.

20. When the total moisture content is 0.028 kg of water/kg of dry solid, equilibrium moisture is 0.0026 kg of water/kg of dry solid,
and critical moisture content is 0.027 kg water/kg of dry solid, then the free moisture content is __________ .
21. The material used as an adsorbent(exact) in packed bed adsorption is___________.

22. Adsorption capacity of a regenerated bed compared to the fresh bed is generally ____________.

23. Two particles are said to have equal settling, if they are having the same ________________ in the same fluid & in the same field
of force.

24. As the sedimentation proceeds Zone A and D grow at the expense of Zone _________.

25. The settling characteristics found using batch sedimentation can be used for design of _____________________.

26. The tangent to early portion of the Z vs theta curve in sedimentation experiment represents___________________settling.

27. When the motion of the particles in liquid is impeded by surrounding particles and walls of the container in such case settling of
the particles is ____________________settling.

28. The process of carrying of the liquid by the gas due to entrapment of gas in liquid is known as___________________.

29. The mass transfer coefficient of the tower depends on the________________ratio of water to air.

30. If the air flow rate is increased, keeping the flow rate of water to be constant, the tower characteristics will _____________.

31.If h1=85 KJ/kg dry air, L/G=0.2512, and inlet water temperature in 68.7°C and exit water temperature is 46.8°C, the h2
is________.
32. For data given Q.31, ha1 is ______________.

33. In pool boiling process, the regime where vapour bubbles form with increase in heat flux, is called as _________________.

34. When a plot is made between heat flux and excess temperature in Pool boiling experiment, in________________region the
unstable film is formed.

35. When a plot is made between heat flux and excess temperature ,the number of regions the plot can be divided into
is______________________.
36. During film boiling region the heat is transferred to the liquid by ______________(mode of heat transfer).

37. The equation for heat transfer for water boiling on horizontal submerged bar is given by _____________________________.
38.The total head of pumps in parallel if suction pressure at pump-2 is 0 mm Hg, discharge pressure is 0.85 kg/cm2, suction pressure
of pump-1 is 90 mm Hg, hpg=2.5m is______________________.

39.The total head of single pump if the discharge pressure is 0.5 kg/cm2, and suction pressure is 10 mm Hg. hpg =1 m.
is____________.

40.Overall efficiency of the centrifugal pump is given by the ratio of _____________(in words ).

41.The design parameter for impeller which can affect the head and discharge is ____________.

42. The rise in pressure head is proportional to the square of_________________________.

43. If the DBTin and DBTout are 32.33°C and 24.55°C respectively and WBT in and WBTout are 30.21°C and 22.99°C respectively, the
the adiabatic NTU is_______________________________.(where DBT and WBT are dry bulb and wet bulb temperature
respectively,NTU is number of transfer units).

44. In cooling tower experiment flow rate of air is controlled using __________________.

45.With the increase in length of packing in adsorption tower , the length of unused bed ____________________________.