What is the permanent pressure drop across an orifice flow meter which indicates a 16.

75 psi
pressure drop? The inlet pipe diameter is 12 in and orifice is 8 in.
(A) 20 psi (C) 9 psi
(B) 17 psi (D) 4 psi
What is the maximum possible work out (HP) of a Carnot cycle using 0.3 MMBTU/hr of heat
input? The cycle operates between 20 0C and 500K.
(A) 125 HP (C) 113 HP
(B) 142 HP (D) 49 HP
What is the isentropic efficiency for the expansion of steam through a turbine from 3000
psia/1100°F to 205 psig/500 0F?
(A) 94.5% (C) 74.5%
(B) 84.5% (D) 64.5%
A Carnot heat pump is used for heating a building. The outside air is at 30 0F and is the cold
reservoir. The building is to be maintained at 75 0F. 200000 [BtU/hr] are required for the
heating. The heat [BtU/min] taken from outside is near to
(A) 3050 (C) 4110
(B) 4550 (D) 5670
Same question above but [BtU/min]
(A) 183178 (C) 103807
(B) 311321 (D) 91000
A boiler is producing 5000 lb/hr of steam at 150 psig and 400 0F. Water is fed to the boiler at a
temperature of 80 0F. The boiler is operating at 80% efficiency. If the feed water is heated to
220 0F, by using a hot waste stream, % energy savings would be near to
(A) 9.6 (C) 7.8
(B) 6.9 (D) 4.1
A shell and tube exchanger is being designed with the following conditions. The hot side
inlet/outlet temperature is 200°C/155°C. The cold side inlet/outlet temperature is 40°C/180°C.
How many tube and shell passes are recommended?
(A) 2-shell, 4-tube pass (C) 1-shell, 2-tube pass
(B) 1-shell, 3-tube pass (D) 1-shell, 1-tube pass
750kg/h of sea shore sand containing 1% by weight of salt is to be washed with 1000 kg/h of
fresh water running counter current to the sand through two classifiers in series. Assume
perfect mixing of sand and water occurs in each classifier and that the sand discharged from
each classifier contain 2 parts of water for every 5 parts of sand by weight.
The amount (kg) of salt in the overflow from stage 2 is about
(A) 4.4 (C) 2.2
(B) 0.7 (D) 2.9
The percentage removal of salt is about
(A) 91 (C) 84
(B) 97 (D) 89
If a single classifier is required the amount (MT/h) of washwater needed to attain the same
removal efficiency is about
(A) 1.8 (C) 2.3
(B) 3.1 (D) 2.7
In a plant laboratory having a floor area of 100 m2 and a ceiling height of 3 m, the temperature
and relative humidity are kept at 23.9°C and 80%, respectively. The closed loop air conditioning
(AC) unit installed for the purpose has an air handling capacity to change the air in the room of
which 80% is void space, every ten minutes. The air leaving the condenser of the AC unit has a
temperature of 18.3°C. The amount (kg/h) of dry air used is about
(A) 2322 (C) 1899
(B) 1672 (D) 1456
A plate and frame filter press with 12 frames is used to filter slurry at a constant pressure. Total
filtration area is 65 ft2 and the filter delivers 360 lb of filtrate in 40 minutes. If 8 more frames
are added to the filter, the other conditions remaining the same, how long would it take to
produce 360 lb of filtrate? Assume that the initial resistance is negligible.
(A) 14.40 min (C) 21.72 min
(B) 7.5 min (D) 49.17 min
A forced-circulation evaporator is to concentrate 60,000 kg/h of 44 percent NaOH to 65 percent
using steam at 3 atm pressure. The feed temperature and the condensing temperature are both
40°C. The density of the feed solution is 1,450 kg/m3. The over-all heat transfer coefficient is
2,000 W/m2·°C.
The steam requirement (kg/h) is about
(A) 30, 500 (C) 23, 600
(B) 57, 400 (D) 12, 300
The heat transfer area (m2) required is about
(A) 124 (C) 345
(B) 204 (D) 285
Air is expanded isentropically in a nozzle from 13.8 bar and 150 C to a pressure of 6.9 bar. The
inlet velocity to the nozzle is very small and the process occurs under steady flow steady state
conditions. Calculate the exit velocity from the nozzle knowing that the nozzle is laid in a
horizontal plant and that inlet velocity is 10 m/s
Ans. 391 m/s
Conical head apex angle?
Ans. 60 deg
Large concrete bridge at 17 C receive 50 GJ of thermal energy. Temperature does not change.
What is the entropy within the concrete.
Ans. 172.32 kJ/K
A tank of 4 m3 capacity contains 1500 kg of liquid water at 250 0C in equilibrium with this
vapor, which fills the rest of the tank. A quantity of 1000 kg of saturated water at 50 0C is
pumped into the tank. The temperature in the tank is not to change. The following data can be
used:
At 250 0C:
Vf = 1.251 cm3/g; Vg = 50.04 cm3/g
Hf = 1085.8 kJ/kg; Hg = 2800.4 kJ/kg
At 50 0C:
Hf = 209.3 kJ/kg
The initial amount (kg) of water vapor in the tank is about
(A) 42.44 (C) 23.54
(B) 34.22 (D) 51.89
The initial enthalpy (kJ/kg) of water (vapor & liquid) in the tank is about
(A) 1232 (C) 989
(B) 878 (D) 1133
The final amount (kg) of water vapor in the tank is about
(A) 48.87 (C) 16.80
(B) 53.44 (D) 27.87
The final enthalpy (kJ/kg) of water (vapor & liquid) in the tank is about
(A) 1109 (C) 988
(B) 1097 (D) 1033
The amount of heat (kJ) that must be added during the process is about
(A) 453445 (C) 143444
(B) 567778 (D) 832530
In the burning of pyrite containing 92% FeS2 and 8% gangue, 13% of the FeS2 charged lost in
the cinder. A partial analysis of the cinder also shows 5.31% S03, 86.33% N2 and 6.88% O2. Air
supplied is at 23 C; 743 mm Hg and 88% RH.
What is the x’s air (FeS2 -→ SO2)
Ans. 40%
m3 air/kg pyrite
ans. 3.58
m3 burner gas/kg pyrite
ans. 5.926
A liquid mixture containing 65% mol benzene and 35%mol toluene is subjected to flash
vaporization at 363 K and 101.3 kPa. The vapor pressure of benzene at this temperature is
136.09 kPa and the vapor pressure of toluene is 54.21 kPa. Flash vaporization is essentially an
equilibrium stage operation. Calculate the mol% of the feed that remains liquid
Ans. 62.1%
A continuous distillation column is used to regenerate solvent for us in a solvent extraction unit.
The column treats 200 kmol/h of a feed containing 10% mol ethyl alcohol and the rest is water.
The overhead product is sent to an extraction unit and the bottom is wasted. What is the daily
requirement of make-up alcohol in the solvent extraction unit?
Ans. 589.98 kg = 1300 lb
2kg of air heated at constant P = 2 bar and T = 500 C. Determine the entropy
Ans. 2 kJ/kg
Carbon monoxide combines with chlorine in the presence of a suitable catalyst to form
phosgene according to the following reaction: CO(g) + Cl2(g) → COCl2(g). After reaction, the
products contained 12 moles of phosgene, 3 moles of chlorine and 8 moles of carbon
monoxide. Assuming that the original reactant mixture is free of phosgene
The percent excess reactant used is close to
(A) 27.15 (C) 33.33
(B) 30.09 (D) 24.32
The percent conversion of the limiting reactant is close to
(A) 70 (C) 85
(B) 80 (D) 75
The moles of the total product per mole of the reactant mixture fed to the reactor is close to
(A) 0.66 (C) 0.83
(B) 0.76 (D) 0.71
In the vapor-phase hydration of ethylene to ethanol, diethyl ether is obtained as a by-product.
C2H4 + H20 → C2H5OH
2C2H4 + H20 → (C2H5)20
A 100 mol feed mixture consisting of 60% ethylene, 3% inerts and 37% water is sent to the
reactor. The products analyzed 53.89% ethylene, 14.37% ethanol, 1.80% ether, 26.35% water,
and 3.59% inerts.
The conversion of ethylene is close to
(A) 27 (C) 25
(B) 30 (D) 32
The yield (%) of ethanol based on ethylene is close to
(A) 76 (C) 67
(B) 83 (D) 80
The yield (%) of ether based on ethylene is close to
(A) 27 (C) 24
(B) 20 (D) 17
An automobile tire is inflated to a pressure of 195 kPa at 273 K. If the pressure inside the tire is
not to exceed 250 kPa, what is the maximum temperature (K) to which the tire may be heated?
(A) 333 (C) 367
(B) 350 (D) 317
100 m3/h of an ammonia-air mixture containing 20% ammonia by volume is admitted to an
absorption column at 120 kPa and 300 K in order to recover ammonia by absorbing in water. 90
percent of ammonia in the entering gas is absorbed and the gas leaves the column at 100 kPa
and 280 K. What is the volume (m3) of gas leaving in one hour?
(A) 76.33 (C) 67.33
(B) 82.84 (D) 91.84
100 m3 of Air is to be dehumidified by condensing the water vapor present in it by cooling at
constant pressure. 100 m3 of air at 100 kPa and 300 K contains water vapour which exerts a
partial pressure of 4 kPa. Keeping the pressure constant, this air is cooled to 275 K and the
condensed water is removed. The partial pressure of water in the air after cooling is found to
be 1.8 kPa.
The volume of air after dehumidification in m3 is close to
(A) 98.32 (C) 80.32
(B) 89.61 (D) 74.22
The mass of water removed in kg is close to
(A) 1.62 (C) 1.24
(B) 2.12 (D) 0.89
The pressure (bar) developed by one kmol gaseous ammonia contained in a vessel of 0.6 m3
capacity at a constant temperature of 473 K by using the van der Waals equation given that a=
0.4233 N m4/mol2; b = 3.73 x 10-5 m3/mol is about
(A) 87 (C) 74
(B) 58 (D) 66
Air at 101.3 kPa is blown across the bulb of a mercury thermometer. The bulb is covered with a
wick. The wick is immersed in an organic liquid (MW = 58). The reading of the thermometer is
280.8 K. At this temperature the vapor pressure of the liquid is 5 kPa. Find the air temperature
given that the psychrometric ratio is 2 kJ/kg K and the latent heat of vaporization of the liquid is
360 kJ/kg. Assume that the air which is blown is free from the organic vapor.
(A) 299 K (26 C) (C) 305 K
(B) 291 K (D) 310 K
Air is compressed in a piston-cylinder arrangement … 1/10 of its initial volume … if the initial
temperature is 35 C and the process is frictionless and adiabatic, what is the final temperature?
Ans. 497 C
Steam at 416 Pa and 166 K has a specific volume of 0.41 m3/kg and a specific enthalpy of 29.4
kJ/kg. Find the internal energy per lb pf steam
Ans. 13.3 kJ/lb or 29.2 kJ/kg