Practice Test: Question Set - 32
1. The main product of high temperature carbonization of coal is
- (A) Coke
- (B) Ammonia
- (C) Tar
- (D) Coke oven gas
2. Fussain
- (A) Is friable, charcoal
like substance
- (B) Has highest fixed
carbon and lowest volatile matter content of all the four banded components of
coal
- (C) Is non-coking, but
when blended with highly coking coal, controls its swelling and produces high
strength coke on carbonization
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
3. Pensky-Marten apparatus is used for those oils, whose flash points are __________ °F.
- (A) < 120
- (B) > 120
- (C) < 90
- (D) 90-110
4. Commercial production of petrol from coal (as practised in a factory at Sasol in South Africa) is done by the __________ of coal.
- (A) Hydrogenation
- (B) Gasification
- (C) Carbonization
- (D) None of these
5. Kopper-Totzek coal gasifier
- (A) Can give ammonia
synthesis gas (H2 + N2)
- (B) Is a moving bed
reactor
- (C) Cannot use coking
coal
- (D) Operate at very high
pressure
6. Gross and net calorific value of a fuel will be the same
- (A) If its ash content is
zero
- (B) If its carbon content
is very low
- (C) If its
hydrogen/hydrogen compound content is zero
- (D) Under no
circumstances
7. During its calorific value determination by bomb calorimeter, coal is combusted by
- (A) Air
- (B) Oxygen
- (C) Oxygen enriched air
- (D) None of these
8. Beehive coke oven
- (A) Facilitates
by-products recovery
- (B) Takes
2-3 days for coking of coal but requires no external fuel for heating
- (C) Gives larger yield of
coke (around 85%) as compared to by-product ovens
- (D) Produces coke with
very poor strength
9. High temperature in gasification of coal favours
- (A) High production of CO2
- (B) Low production of CO2
- (C) High production of CO
- (D) Both (b) and (c)
10. Coal is heated in presence of air to a temperature of about __________ °C, while determining its ash content for proximate analysis.
- (A) 500
- (B) 750
- (C) 950
- (D) 1100
11. Assam (India) coals suffers mainly from the disadvantage of high __________ content.
- (A) Ash
- (B) Volatile matter
- (C) Sulphur (4-6%)
- (D) Moisture
12. Higher percentage of ash in coal meant for the production of metallurgical grade coke
- (A) Decreases the
hardness of coke
- (B) Decreases the
abrasion resistance of coke
- (C) Causes brittleness in
steel
- (D) None of these
13. Abel apparatus is used for those oils, whose flash points are _______°F.
- (A) < 120
- (B) > 120
- (C) > 280
- (D) 300-600
14. Eschka mixture, which is used for the determination of sulphur in coal, is a mixture of
- (A) MgO & Na2CO3
- (B) MgSO4 &
BaCl2
- (C) BaSO4 &
NaCl
- (D) MgCO3 &
NaCl
15. Which of the following is the most reactive (as regards the formation of CO + H2 from C + H2O)?
- (A) Blast furnace coke
- (B) Low temperature coke
- (C) Anthracite coal
- (D) Sub-bituminous coal
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