A. 1.5
B. -0.6
C. -1.5
D. 0.6
Related Mcqs:
- On moving the feed line (q-line) from saturated liquid feed (vertical position) to saturated vapor feed (horizontal feed), if the slope of both the operating lines are to be increased, then it will result in______________________?
A. Greater degree of separation with a fixed number of trays
B. Increased reboiler load
C. Increased reflux ratio
D. None of these - If f = moles of vapour present per mole of feed, then the slope of feed line is (McCabe- Thiele method) ________________________?
A. (1 – f)/f
B. – (f – 1)/f
C. -1/f
D. -f/(1 – f) - When the feed to a distillation column is a saturated liquid, slope of the feed line is_____________________?
A. Zero
B. Unity
C. Infinity
D. None of these - One mole feed of a binary mixture of a given composition is flash vaporised at a fixed P and T. If Raoult’s law is obeyed, then changing the feed composition would effect ?
A. The product composition but not the fraction vaporised
B. The product composition as well as the fraction vaporised
C. The fraction vaporised but not the product composition
D. Neither the product composition nor the fraction vaporised - According to the Fenske equation, what will be the minimum number of plates required in a distillation column to separate an equimolar binary mixture of components A and B into an overhead fraction containing 99 mol% A and a bottom fraction containing 98 mol% B ? Assume that relative volatility (αAB = 2) does not change appreciably in the column ?
A. 5
B. 9
C. 12
D. 28 - For the same feed, feed quality and separation (in a distillation column), with the increase of total pressure, the number of ideal plates will_____________________?
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Remain same
D. Data insufficient, can’t be predicted - A distillation column with N plates is being operated under normal conditions. At some point of time, the operation is shifted to total reflux condition (i.e., no product and residue are being withdrawn and feed to the column is stopped). At the new steady state ?
A. Composition of vapors and that of liquid do not vary throughout the column
B. Reboiler load and condenser load are minimum
C. The top and bottom compositions are unchanged with and without total reflux
D. The top and bottom compositions correspond to the maximum enrichment available - An air-water vapour mixture has a dry bulb temperature of 60°C and a dew point temperature of 40°C. The total pressure is 101.3 kPa and the vapour pressure of water at 40°C and 60°C are 7.30 kPa and 19.91 kPa respectively. The humidity of air sample expressed as kg of water vapour/kg of dry air is__________________?
A. 0.048
B. 0.079
C. 0.122
D. 0.152 - Condensation of a vapour-gas mixture just begins, when (where, p = partial pressure of the vapour P = vapour pressure of the liquid) ?
A. p = P
B. p >>P
C. p < P
D. p << P - In distillation where q is defined as the moles of liquid flow in the stripping section per mole of feed introduced, for saturated liquid feed____________________?
A. q > 1
B. q < 1
C. q = 1
D. q = 0
