Practice Test: Question Set - 04
1. LMTD can't be used as such without a correction factor for the
- (A) Multipass heat exchanger
- (B) Baffled heat exchanger
- (C) Condensation of mixed vapor in a condenser
- (D) All (a) (b) and (c)
2. What is the logarithmic mean of r1 and r2?
- (A) (r1 - r2)/ln(r1/r2)
- (B) (r1 - r2)/ln(r2/r1)
- (C) (r2 - r1)/ln(r1/r2)
- (D) (r1 - r2)/-ln(r1/r2)
3. In a heat exchanger with steam outside the tubes, a liquid gets heated to 45°C, when its flow velocity in the tubes is 2 m/s. If the flow velocity is reduced to 1 m/s, other things remaining the same, the temperature of the exit liquid will be
- (A) Less than 45°C
- (B) More than 45°C
- (C) Equal to 45°C
- (D) Initially decreases and remains constant thereafter
4. The Nusselt number for fully developed (both thermally and hydrodynamically) laminar flow through a circular pipe, where the wall heat flux is constant, is
- (A) 2.36
- (B) 4.36
- (C) 120.36
- (D) Dependent on NRe only
5. Heat flux, as defined in heat flow is analogous to __________ in electricity flow.
- (A) Current
- (B) Voltage
- (C) Resistance
- (D) None of these
6. The overall resistance for heat transfer through a series of flat resistance, is the __________ of the resistances.
- (A) Average
- (B) Geometric mean
- (C) Product
- (D) Sum
7. The driving potential for the crystal growth during crystallization is the __________ of the solution.
- (A) Concentration
- (B) Viscosity
- (C) Super-saturation
- (D) Density
8. Heat transfer co-efficient equation for forced convection, Nu = 0.023 Re0.8. Prn, is not valid, if the value of
- (A) n = 0.4 is used for heating
- (B) n = 0.3 is used for cooling
- (C) Reynolds number for the flow involved is > 10000
- (D) Reynolds number for the flow involved is < 2100
9. For flow over a flat plate, the ratio of thermal boundary layer thickness, 'xt' and hydrodynamic boundary layer thickness 'x' is equal to (where, NPr = Prandtl number)
- (A) NPr
- (B) NPr1/3
- (C) NPr-1
- (D) NPr-1/3
10. In a shell and tube heat exchanger, putting a longitudinal baffle across the shell, forces the shell side fluid to pass __________ through the heat exchanger.
- (A) Once
- (B) Twice
- (C) Thrice
- (D) Four times
11. An ejector is used to
- (A) Increase pressure
- (B) Increase temperature
- (C) Remove condensate
- (D) None of these
12. In a forward feed multiple effect evaporator, the pressure is
- (A) Highest in last effect
- (B) Lowest in last effect
- (C) Same in all effects
- (D) Dependent on the number of effects
13. In a laboratory test run, the rate of drying was found to be 0.5 x 10-3 kg/m2.s, when the moisture content reduced from 0.4 to 0.1 on dry basis. The critical moisture content of the material is 0.08 on a dry basis. A tray dryer is used to dry 100 kg (dry basis) of the same material under identical conditions. The surface area of the material is 0.04 m2/kg of dry solid. The time required (in seconds) to reduce the moisture content of the solids from 0.3 to 0.2 (dry basis) is
- (A) 2000
- (B) 4000
- (C) 5000
- (D) 6000
14. With increase in temperature, the thermal conductivity of most liquids
- (A) Increases
- (B) Decreases
- (C) Remain same
- (D) First increases upto a certain temperature and then becomes constant
15. Peclet number (Pe) is given by
- (A) Pe = Re.Pr
- (B) Pe = Re/Pr
- (C) Pe = Pr/Re
- (D) Pe = Nu.Re
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