Fresh orange juice contains 12% (by weight) solids and the rest water 90% of the fresh juice is sent to an evaporator to remove water and subsequently mixed with the remaining 10% of fresh juice. The resultant product contains 40% solids. The kg of water removed from 1 kg fresh juice is__________________?

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1. An evaporator while concentrating an aqueous solution from 10 to 40% solids evaporates 30000 kg of water. The amount of solids handled by the system in kg is___________________?

   A. 4000
   B. 9000
   C. 4600
   D. 3000

2. 1000 kg of wet solids are to be dried from 60% to 20% moisture (by weight). The mass of moisture removed in kg is__________________?

   A. 520
   B. 200
   C. 400
   D. 500

3. A multiple effect evaporator has a capacity to process 4000 kg of solid caustic soda per day, when it is concentrating from 10% to 25% solids. The water evaporated in kg per day is__________________?

   A. 6000
   B. 24000
   C. 60000
   D. 48000

4. Fruit juice (a heat sensitive material) can be concentrated in a ____________ evaporator?

   A. Long tube
   B. Falling film
   C. High pressure
   D. None of these

5. A multiple effect evaporator as compared to a single effect evaporator of the same capacity has _________________?

   A. Lower heat transfer area
   B. Lower steam economy
   C. Higher steam economy
   D. Higher solute concentration in the product

6. In a single evaporator system, the steam economy ________________ by creating vacuum in the evaporator?

   A. Increases
   B. Decreases
   C. Remain constant
   D. May increase or decrease, depends on the vacuum

7. It is desired to concentrate a 20% salt solution (20 kg of salt in 100 kg of solution) to a 30% salt solution in an evaporator. Consider a feed of 300 kg/min at 30°C. The boiling point of the solution is 110°C, the latent heat of vaporisation is 2100 kJ/kg and the specific heat of the solution is 4 kJ/kg.K. The rate at which the heat has to be supplied in (kJ/min) to the evaporator is____________________?

   A. 3.06 × 105
   B. 6.12 × 105
   C. 7.24 × 105
   D. 9.08 × 105

8. A dilute aqueous solution is to be concentrated in an evaporator system. High pressure steam is available. Multiple effect evaporator system is employed, because__________________?

   A. Total heat transfer area of all the effects is -less than that in a single effect evaporator system
   B. Total amount of vapor produced per Kg of feed steam in a multiple effect system is much
   higher than in a single effect
   C. Boiling point elevation in a single effect system is much higher than that in any effect in a
   multi-effect system
   D. Heat transfer co-efficient in a single effect is much lower than that in any effect in a multieffect
   system

9. For the same heat transfer area and the terminal conditions, the ratio of the capacities of a single effect evaporator to a triple effect evaporator is_________________?

   A. 3
   B. 0.33
   C. 1
   D. 1.33

10. Steam consumption in kg/hr in case of an evaporator is given by (where, C & E are capacity the economy of the evaporator respectively) ?

    A. C/E
    B. E/C
    C. CE
    D. 1/CE