University of Santo Tomas ChE Integration Course (ChE 600)

Faculty of Engineering 2nd Term AY 2017-2018

Department of Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering Principles Part 2
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____ 1) It is the ratio of internal working pressure to allowable stress of the pipe material
A) schedule number C) Froude number
B) Mach number D) tube number
____ 2) During filtration of a slurry, the filtration rate will start to fall once the pressure drop across the filter medium
A) becomes zero C) begins to rise
B) becomes constant D) begins to fall
____ 3) In evaporation, what type of feeding is best used for cold and viscous solutions?
A) Parallel Feeding C) Backward Feeding
B) Mixed Feeding D) Forward Feeding
____ 4) In an absorption tower, packings are placed inside to
A) Provide a bigger mass transfer area C) Fill up void spaces
B) Strengthen the tower D) Reduce pressure drop across the tower
____ 5) In order for the gas to be dehumidified, as in water vapor-air mixture, the humidity of the gas must be
A) Greater than the gas-liquid interface C) Less than the gas-liquid interface
B) Equal with the gas-liquid interface D) Saturated
____ 6) The mesh number of a screen denotes
A) The area of the screen in square inch C) The number of layers in a screen system
B) The number of openings per linear inch of D) The number of screens needed to obtain
screen the required fines
____ 7) Losses for flow through valves and fittings are expressed in terms of
A) drag coefficient C) shape factor
B) equivalent length of a straight pipe D) roughness factor
____ 8) The molar flux of component A in molecular diffusion is independent of
A) total pressure C) mass transfer area
B) temperature D) concentration gradient
____ 9) Distillation is the best separation method utilized for system with relative volatilities
A) greater than 1. C) equal to 1.
B) equal to zero. D) less than zero.
____ 10) What happens to the discharge when two centrifugal pumps are connected in series?
A) The discharge increases by a factor of 4.
B) The discharge is cut by half.
C) The discharge becomes twice its initial value.
D) the discharge is not affected.
____ 11) Which of the following dimensionless numbers is associated with the heat transfer in laminar flow?
A) Peclet number C) Prandtl number
B) Boelter number D) Graetz number

____ 21) Approximate the specific humid volume (cubic feet per pound dry air) of an air water mixture with relative
humidity of 3% and dry bulb temperature of 226 oF?
A) 16 C) 15
B) 18 D) 17
____ 22) What is the absorptivity of a polished aluminum at 2000 degree Rankine?
A) 0.38 C) 0.51
B) 0.83 D) 0.15
____ 23) What is the saturation humidity and vapor pressure (in inHg) of air at 60 oF?
A) 0.01582, 0.73915 inHg C) 0.03118, 1.0323 inHg
B) 0.01108, 0.52159 inHg D) 0.01381, 0.37523 in Hg
____ 24) What is the molecular weight (g/mol) of Paris Green?
A) 465.15 C) 1013.79
B) 251.43 D) 52
____ 25) What is the Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient, in SI units, for a Stainless Steel Jacketed Vessel wherein Brine is
the Jacket Fluid and Water is the Vessel Fluid?
A) 230-1625 J/(m2.s.K) C) 850-1700 J/(m2.s.K)
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 B) 400-570 J/(m2.s.K) D) 450-1140 J/(m2.s.K)
____ 26) Determine the Enthalphy, in kJ/kg, of a 25% NaOH Solution at 90 oF.
A) 50 C) 60
B) 116.3 D) 213.5
____ 27) Approximate the relative humidity of an air-water mixture with dry bulb temperature of 120 oF and dew point
temperature of 96 oF.
A) 15% C) 50%
B) 60% D) 25%
____ 28) A single effect evaporator is used to concentrate a brine solution of 20 tons/hr from 10% to 35%. Saturated
steam is at 275 kPa and the vapor space is at 100 mmHg abs. Overall heat transfer coefficient is 1.9 kW/m 2-K.
The feed enters at 30 oC and heat capacity is assumed similar to water. What is the BPR of the solution?
A) 21.3 oC C) 17.1 oC
B) 13.2 oC D) 11.7 oC
____ 29) Magnesium Sulfate enters a Swenson-Walker Crystallizer to produce 500 kg/hr of crystals. The Magnesium
Sulfate enters the crystallizer at 90 oC and the slurry leaves at 40 oC. What crystals are formed?
A) MgSO4.6H2O C) MgSO4.H2O
B) MgSO4 D) MgSO4.7H2O
____ 30) What is the specific gravity of oil shale?
A) 1.76 C) 3.32
B) 2.65 D) 2.7
____ 31) Seventy five percent sulfuric acid of viscosity 0.025 N-s/m2 and density 1840 kg/m3 is pumped at 685 cm3/s
through a 25-mm line. Calculate the value of the Reynolds number.
A) 3424 C) 1926
B) 1642 D) 2568
____ 32) A plate and frame filter press is used to filter a sludge for 5 hours at constant pressure. Washing is done by
using 25% of the filtrate volume collected. The time of washing in minutes is
A) 75 C) 600
B) 1200 D) 300
____ 33) Two thousand liters per minute of a gas mixture containing 29% by mole SO2 is to be absorbed in a packed
column using plastic intalox saddles. Sulfur dioxide is absorbed at a water rate which is 1.6 times the minimum.
If the gas exits with 1% by mole SO2, what is the %recovery?
A) 96.55 C) 98.33
B) 97.52 D) 98.79
____ 34) Determine the effectiveness of a screen if the total percentage of particles larger than the screen opening in
the feed, product and undersize is 46%, 92%, and 5%, respectively.
A) 87.67% C) 87.76%
B) 85.77% D) 78.67%
____ 35) In a centrifuge, a solution containing particles (spgr=2.1) is clarified. The centrifuge has a radius of 0.05 m and
the height of 0.3 m. The liquid layer from the axis is approximately 0.004 m. Determine the critical diameter (in
mm) at the exit point of the centrifuge if it is set at 4000 rev/min with a flowrate of 6.5x10-5 m3/s. Assume that
the property of the solution is the same as water at 30 oC: density=995.647 kg/m3; viscosity=0.88cP
A) 0.751 μm C) 0.120 μm
B) 0.517 μm D) 1.02 μm
____ 36) One drier will dry a material from 45% moisture (wb) to 20% moisture (db). From here the material enters
another drier where the water content is further reduced to give a final product weighing 1000 kg. If the total
evaporation from both driers is 800 kg, the moisture of the final product is
A) 0.01 C) 0.03
B) 0.02 D) 0.05
____ 37) Air at 20 oC blows over a hot plate 50 cm by 70 cm maintained at 250 oC. The convection heat transfer
coefficient is 0.025 kW/m2. Calculate the heat transfer in Btu/hr.
A) 2512 C) 6678
B) 6867 D) 20125
____ 38) A solid material containing 48% water, 40% inerts, and 12% solute was treated in a counter-current leaching
system using fresh water as pure solvent. After the process, the following data was obtained: y1 = 0.15, y2 =
0.13, xn = 0.003. Determine the number of extraction cells required.
A) 18 C) 17
B) 20 D) 19
For numbers 39-40.
A furnace wall consists of 2 ft of brick. The brick has a thermal conductivity of 0.6 BTU/hr ft2 (oF/ft), a specific
heat of 0.2 BTU/lb oF, and a density of 110 lb/ft3. The temperature of the inside surface of the wall is 1100 oF,
and at the outside surface is 200 oF.
____ 39) Calculate the thermal diffusivity of the brick (ft2/hr).
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 A) 0.04545 C) 0.07272
B) 0.05454 D) 0.02727
____ 40) Calculate the heat loss per hour through a wall 10 ft high and 10 ft long.
A) 27000 C) 13500
B) 54000 D) 35000
____ 41) Calculate the temperature of the brick 4 ½ in. from the inside surface.
A) 346 oF C) 368.75 oF
B) 925 oF D) 931.25 oF
For numbers 42-43.
A mixture of water and ethyl alcohol containing 0.16 mole fraction is continuously distilled in a plate
fractionating column to give a product containing 0.77 mole fraction alcohol and a waste of 0.02 mole fraction
alcohol. It is proposed to withdraw 25 percent of the alcohol in the entering stream as a side stream containing
0.50 mole fraction of alcohol.
____ 42) What is the ratio of distillate to bottoms?
A) 0.2347 C) 0.3724
B) 0.1727 D) 0.2771
____ 43) Determine the vapor to liquid ratio at the bottom of the column if the feed is liquor at its boiling point and a
reflux ratio of 2 is used.
A) 0.3413 C) 0.4699
B) 0.6667 D) 0.1727
For number 44-46.
Tests on a small scale tank 0.3 m diameter (Rushton impeller, diameter 0.1 m) have shown that a blending
process between two miscible liquids (aqueous solutions, properties approximately the same as water, i.e.
viscosity=1 mN-s/m2, density=1000 kg/m3) is satisfactorily completed after 1 minute using an impeller speed
of 250 rev/min. It is decided to scale up the process to a tank of 2.5 m diameter using the criterion of constant
tip-speed
____ 44) What speed should be chosen for the larger impeller?
A) 30.0 rpm C) 4.17 rpm
B) 41.2 rpm D) 20.8 rpm
____ 45) What power will be required?
A) 29.5 W C) 27.5 W
B) 28.4 W D) 26.4 W
____ 46) What will be the blend time in the large tank?
A) 3.15 hr C) 1.15 hr
B) 2.15 hr D) 4.15 hr
For numbers 47-49.
In order to extract acetic acid from dilute aqueous solution with isopropyl ether, the two immiscible phases are
passed countercurrently through a packed column 3 m in length and 75 mm in diameter. It is found that, if 0.5
kg/m2s of the pure ether is used to extract 0.25 kg/m2s of 4.0 per cent acid by mass, then the ether phase
leaves the column with a concentration of 1.0 per cent acid by mass.
The equilibrium relationship is given by: (kg acid/kg isopropyl ether) = 0.3 (kg acid/kg ether).
____ 47) What is the concentration of acid in the raffinate?
A) 2% C) 3%
B) 2.5% D) 4%
____ 48) Determine the logarithmic mean driving force.
A) 0.0041 kg/kg C) 0.0063 kg/kg
B) 0.0016 kg/kg D) 0.0036 kg/kg
____ 49) Calculate the number of overall transfer units based on the raffinate phase.
A) 5.53 C) 4.65
B) 3.55 D) 6.54
____ 50) A triple effect evaporator is concentrating a liquid that has no appreciable elevation in boiling point. The
temperature of the steam to the first effect is 108 oC, the boiling point of the solution in the last effects is 52
oC. The overall heat transfer coefficients, in W/m2-oC, are 2500 in the first effect, 2000 in the second effect,
and 1000 in the third effect. At what temperature will the liquid boil in the first and second effects?
A) 81.5 oC, 67.2 oC C) 96.2 oC, 78.1 oC
B) 96.2 oC, 81.5 oC D) 81.5 oC, 78.1 oC

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