CHEMICAL ENGINEERING REVIEW 2015

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OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS (1 pt each). PROBLEM SOLVING: Show complete solution. (5 pts each)

7. Refers to the temperature at which vapor pressure is 1000 ft3/min. If the partial pressure of water vapor
equal to the partial pressure of vapor in air is reduced from 45 mm Hg to 10 mm Hg. How
a) dry bulb c) dew point many pounds of water is removed per hour?
b) wet bulb d) equilibrium temperature a) 1.09 b) 82.6 c) 0.06 d) 76.3 e) 65.2
16. Wood is to be dried from 40% to 25 % moisture.
8. In some reaction operation, bypassing some amount of What % of the feed wood is the water evaporated?
the reactants prevent wasteful processing. To a) 80 b) 20 c) 25 d) 60 e) 10
determine the amount of the bypass, it is essential 17. The mole fraction of solute entering a gas absorber is
that a material balance be taken 0.25. If the percentage recovery is 75%, then the
a) inside the reactor mole fraction
b) at the feed
c) at overall output and input materials
d) around a point where mixing occurs

9. This is a steady – state temperature, reached by a

small amount of liquid evaporating into a large amount
of unsaturated vapor – gas mixture
a) saturation temperature
b) wet bulb temperature
c) dry bulb temperature
d) dew point temperature

10. Crystallization of a solute from a solution can be

accomplished by any of the following except
a) evaporation of solvent at saturation point
b) adiabatic evaporation
c) cooling
d) salting out

11. A well know reaction to generate hydrogen from

steam is the so called water gas shift reaction:
CO + H2O  CO2 + H2. If the gaseous feed to the
reactor consists of 30 moles CO, 12 moles CO2 and 35
moles of steam per hour at 800 0C. While 18 moles of
H2 are produced per hour, the limiting reactant is
a) CO b) H2O c) CO2 d) H2 e) steam

12. In the preceding problem, the degree of completion

of the reaction is
a) 0.10 b) 0.60 c) 0.45 d) 0.80 e) none
13. A tank is being drained through a hole at the bottom.
The volume remaining in the tank at a given time is
defined by the equation: V = 5(100 – t) 2, where V is in
liters and t in minutes. After 20 minutes, the rate of
draining in L/min is
a) 400 b) 800 c) 32000 d) 6400 e)
none
14. In a batch process, 10000 pounds of 20% solution of
acetone in water is distilled. Water residue contains
50 lb acetone, while the distillate contains 10% water.
What is the total weight of the distillate
a) 6584 b) 1950 c) 2167 d) 2222 e)
7833
15. Humid air at temperature 600 0F and a total pressure
of 1 atm passed through a humidifier at the rate of