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The reason for preferring packed towers over plate towers in distillation practice is that the packed tower operation gives
A Low pressure drop and high hold up
B High pressure drop and low hold up
C Low pressure drop and low hold up
D High pressure drop and high hold up
In a moderately sized packed absorption tower, channeling (which is most severe with stacked packings) can be minimised by taking the ratio of tower diameter to packing diameter
A > 4 :1
B > 8:1
Kelly and Chris packed several boxes with books. If Chris packed 60 percent of the total number of boxes, what was the ratio of the number of boxes Kelly packed to the number of boxes Chris packed?
A 1 to 6
B 1 to 4
C 2 to 5
D 2 to 3
At the same gas flow rate, the pressure drop in a packed tower being irrigated with liquid __________ that in dry packed tower.
A Is greater than
B Is lower than
C Is same as
D Cannot be predicted as data are insufficient
Plate towers are preferred to packed towers, when large temperature changes are involved, because of the reason that the
A Packing may be crushed due to thermal expansion/contraction of the components of the equipments
B Pressure drop in the equipment will be very high
C Viscosity variation of the fluids may cause channeling/flooding
D None of these
The main reason for dividing a tall packed tower into series of small towers is to
A Minimise the overall pressure drop
B Avoid flooding
C Reduce liquid hold up
D Avoid channeling
In packed absorption tower, onset of flooding usually occurs at a pressure drop of about __________ mm of water column per metre height of packing.
A 25-50
B 50-75
C 200-250
D 750-1000
A packed tower compared to a plate tower for a particular mass transfer operation
A Incurs smaller pressure drop
B Allows installation of cooling coils
C Is less costly when built in large sizes/diameters
D Is more suitable, if suspended solids are present in fluid streams
Pressure drop through plate tower as compared to that through packed tower, for the same duty will be
A Less
B More
C Equal
D Either A or B; depends on the packing height
In actual operation of a bubble cap distillation tower, the __________ at the bottom of the tower is more than that at the top of the tower.
A Molal flow rate of vapour
B Vapour molecular weight
C Pressure and temperature
D All of the above

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