A. Zero
B. Unity
C. Infinity
D. None of these
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 - The feed to fractionating column is changed from saturated vapour to saturated liquid. If the separation and reflux ratio remains unchanged, the number of ideal stages will______________________?
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Remain same
D. Depend on saturated boiling point; may increase or decrease - 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 - In a binary distillation column, if the feed contains 40 mole % vapour, the q line will have a slope of_________________?
A. 1.5
B. -0.6
C. -1.5
D. 0.6 - 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 - 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) - 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 At some point of time, the operation is shifted to total reflux condition (i.e., no product and residue are being withdrawn and feed to the column is stopped).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 - A distillation column separates 10000 kg/hr of a benzene-toluene mixture as shown in the figure below: In the figure xF, xD and xW represent the weight fraction of benzene in the feed, distillate and residue respectively. The reflux ratio is_______________ ?
A. 0.5
B. 0.6
C. 1.0
D. 2.0 - In case of steam distillation, the steam leaving the liquid is not completely saturated with distillate vapour, because_______________?
A. Temperature is less
B. Total pressure is less
C. Mixing of steam with the material being vaporised is not so intimate as to result in equilibrium
condition
D. Saturated steam is used for steam distillation - Absorption factor is defined as (where, S1 = slope of the operating line S2 = slope of the equilibrium curve) ____________________?
A. S2/S1
B. S1/S2
C. S1 – S2
D. S1 × S2
