Final Particle Technology Test

Full Marks: 50 | Date: 2 Dec 2021 | Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

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1. Draw schematic diagrams for vertical and horizontal elutriators and explain
the working principle. [5]

2. If your roll number is an odd number, explain the working principle of a

continuous pressure filter with a representative figure labelling feed, cake and
filtrate. If your roll number is an even number, explain the working principle
of a continuous vacuum filter with a representative figure labelling feed, cake
and filtrate. [5]

3. Why swirling is undesirable during liquid mixing? What are the possible ways
by which swirling can be prevented? [5]

4. Derive the expression of terminal velocity when a spherical particle is allowed

to settle in still fluid. Find the terminal settling velocity of a perfectly spherical
particle of 40-micron size having a specific gravity of 2.6 falling through still
water. Settling zone is laminar (Stoke’s law zone) and viscosity of water is 1
cP. Take and state the appropriate assumptions. [5]

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 5. What are ideal and real screens? Explain with qualitative cumulative plots. A
solid mixture was screened through a standard 10-mesh screen. The feed,
overflow and underflow contain 38, 79 and 22 weight percent of oversized
material. What is the screen effectiveness if you want to remove the fines?
[10]

6. A constant pressure filtration test gave date set that can fit the following
expression where t is in sec and V is in litre
𝑑𝑡
= 9.3𝑉 + 8.5
𝑑𝑉
The cake is compressible and the compressibility coefficient (in the
expression α = αoΔPs) of the cake is 0.3.

What will be the time taken for the collection of 3.5 litre of filtrate at a
filtration pressure drop twice that is used in the test. [10]

7. Finely divided clay is used as a catalyst in the petroleum industry. It has a

density of 1200 kg/m3 and sphericity of 0.5. The size analysis is as follows:

Average Diameter (Dpi in Mass Fraction

cm) (xi)
0.0252 0.088
0.0178 0.178
0.0126 0.293
0.0089 0.194
0.0038 0.274

Calculate

a) Specific area of the mixture [5]

b) Volume surface mean diameter of the mixture [5]