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  1. Choose the most important factor on which the heat conducted through a wall in a unit time will depend on ?

  2. A.
    Thickness of the wall.
    B.
    Area of the wall perpendicular to heat flow.
    C.
    Material of the wall.
    D.
    Temperature difference between the two surfaces of the wall.

  3. Which of the following has the minimum thermal conductivity ?

  4. A.
    Nitrogen
    B.
    Steel
    C.
    Carbon black
    D.
    Tar

  5. In a heat exchanger, one transfer unit means

  6. A.
    a section of the exchanger in which change in temperature of one stream equals the average driving force in the section.
    B.
    the size of the exchanger in which heat transfer rate is 1 kcal/hr.
    C.
    both (a) and (b)
    D.
    none of these

  7. For condensation of pure vapors, if the heat transfer co-efficients in filmwise and drop-wise condensation are respectively hf and hd, then

  8. A.
    hf = hd
    B.
    hf > hd
    C.
    hf < hd
    D.
    hf could be greater or smaller than hd

  9. Pick out the wrong statement:

  10. A.
    The capacity of an evaporator is reduced by the boiling point elevation.
    B.
    Corrosive liquid is normally passed through the tubes in a shell and tube heat exchanger.
    C.
    Steam jet ejector is used for vapor compression in a thermal recompression evaporator.
    D.
    Heat sensitive materials should be concentrated in high pressure evaporators.

  11. For concentrating an aqueous solution of a material like anhydrous Na2SO4, whose solubility decreases with rise in temperature, the most suitable evaporator is a __________ evaporator.

  12. A.
    high pressure
    B.
    vacuum
    C.
    backward feed
    D.
    none of these

  13. Circulation pump is located below the evaporater to

  14. A.
    avoid cavitation.
    B.
    avoid frequent priming.
    C.
    create more suction head.
    D.
    none of these.

  15. The statement that "maximum wavelength of radiation is inversly proportional to the temperature" is __________ law.

  16. A.
    Stefan-Boltzman's
    B.
    Planck's
    C.
    Wien's displacement
    D.
    none of these

  17. Steam condensate is recovered by steam traps and recycled for use as boiler feed water, because of its low

  18. A.
    hardness
    B.
    dissolved soilds content
    C.
    suspended solids content
    D.
    all (a), (b) and(c)

  19. At steady state the temperature variation in a plane wall, made of two different solids I & II is shown below :

    The thermal conductivity of material I

  20. A.
    is smaller than that of II.
    B.
    is greater than that of II.
    C.
    is equal to that of II.
    D.
    can be greater than or smaller than that of II.