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 HUMIDIFICATION QUESTIONS

1. ___________ involves increasing the amount of vapor present in a gas

stream
2. A decrease in the amount of vapor is known as ____________
3. ____________ is the mass of vapor associated with a unit mass of dry gas
4. ____________ is the humidity of a gas when it is saturated with vapor at a
given temperature
5. ____________ is the ratio of humidity to saturated humidity
6. What is humid heat?
7. Represent humid heat mathematically ___________
8. For air water system, humid heat is approximately ___________
9. ____________ is the volume occupied by unit mass of dried gas and its
associated vapor
10.____________ is the humid volume of saturated gas
11.What is due point?
12.What is percentage relative humidity?
 HUMIDIFICATION ANSWERS
1. Humidification
2. Dehumidification
3. Humidity
4. Humidity of a saturated gas (saturated humidity)
5. Percentage humidity
6. This is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of a unit
mass of dry gas and its associated vapor through a unit temperature
difference at constant pressure
7. S = Ca + HCw
8. S = 1.00 + 1.9H KJ/KgK
9. Humid volume
10.Saturated humid volume
11.Dew point is the temperature at which a gas is saturated with vapor. At
this point, condensation just begins to occur
12.Partial pressure of vapor/ partial pressure of saturated vapor
 DRYING QUESTIONS

1. _________ may be defined as the vaporization and removal of water or

other liquids from a solution, solvent or solid-liquid mixture
2. Drying is a complex process that involves simultaneous ________ and
__________ accompanied by ___________
3. Drying occurs as a result of the vaporization of the liquid by supplying
_________ to the wet feedstock
4. __________ and ________ are the end products od drying
5. Drying is a special case of _________ because mass transfer are in the
direction of solid to fluid
6. Drying is a final operation in _______ and is carried out prior to _________
7. Four importance of drying are
a. ______________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________
8. Improper drying may lead to _____________
9. ____________ and ___________ are critical aspects of the drying operation
10.Drying rate is determined by set of factors that affect the _________ and
_________
11.Solid drying is generally understood to follow two distinct drying zones,
they are ______ and __________
12.The constant zone period and fall rate period are demarcated by a break
point know as __________
13.Constant rate period depends on ___________, ____________ and
__________
14.During the constant rate period, liquid must be transported to the surface
at a rate sufficient to maintain ____________
15.At the end of the constant rate period, a break in the drying curve occurs,
this point is called _________
16.The capacity of the air stream to absorb and carry away moisture
determines the _______
17.Two elements essential in the falling rate period are _________ and
__________
18.In the falling rate period, the higher the temperature of drying air, the
greater its _______
19.The key to analyzing drying process is ___________
20._________ is defined as the relationship between material end energy
balance of water vapor and air mixture
21.Heat may be supplied in drying operation by _________ , _________ ,
_________ and _________
22.Over _________ % of industrial dryers are convective type and _________%
of the application involves the removal of water
23._________ and ________ are the two theories used to describe the
physical nature of drying
24.Drying of solids is considered to occur in two stages ___________ and
__________
25.____________ rate period involves the removal of water from the surface
of the solid
26.__________ rate period involves the removal of water fronm9 the interior
of the solid
27._____________ explains that the rate of drying is governed by internal
movement of moisture
28.___________ Theory proposes that the forces controlling the movement
are capillary in origin.
29.Direct dryers are also known as _______ or __________
30.Indirect dryers are also known as _________ or ___________
31.In ________ type of dryers, the media are separated by a metal wall
32.Advantages of contact dryers over convective dryers are _______,
____________ and _________
33.Five types of batch dryers are __________ _________ __________
_________ ________
34.________ are the simplest and least expensive dryer type
35.The chief advantage of tray dryers apart from low cost is ____________
36.Drying time for tray and vacuum dryer are ________ to _________
37.__________ dryers offer low temperature drying of thermo liable materials
38.A gas fluidized bed may have the appearance of a __________
39.__________ is an extreme form of vacuum drying and takes place by
sublimation
40.High frequency radio waves with frequency from _______ to ______ are
utilized in microwave drying
41._________ dryers are the most widely used In chemical, pharmaceutical
and agro industries
 DRYING ANSWERS

1. Drying
2. Heat, mass, physiochemical transformations
3. Heat
4. Phase change, formation of a solid phase
5. Desorption
6. Manufacturing process, packaging
7.
a. For easy handling of free flowing solids
b. For preservation and storage
c. For easy transportation
d. to give products their desired shapes and quality
8. damage of product
9. heat transfer, mass transfer
10.heat transfer rate, mass transfer rate
11.constant rate period, falling rate period
12.critical moisture content
13.air temperature, humidity, air velocity
14.saturation
15.critical moisture content
16.drying rate
17.air temperature, air velocity
18.vapor holding capacity
19.psychrometry
20.psycrhometry
21.Convection, conduction, radiation, radio wave.
22.85%, 99%
23.Diffusion theory, capillary theory
24.Constant rate period, falling rate period
25.Constant rate period
26.Falling rate period
27.Diffusion theory
28.Capillary
29.Convective dryers, adiabatic dryers
30.Conductive dryers, contact dryers, non- adiabatic
31.Conductive dryers
32.High thermal efficiency, good environmental and economic advantages
33.Tray dryers, vacuum dryers, fluidized bed dryers, freeze dryers, Microwave
vacuum dryers
34.Tray dryers
35.Versatility
36.12, 48hrs
37.Vacuum dryers
38.Boiling liquid
39.Freeze drying
40.3000, 30000 MHz
41.Spray dryers
 ADSORPTION QUESTIONS

1. ___________ is the physical adherence or bonding of ions and

molecules onto the surfaces of another phase
2. Adsorption is a ____________ based process
3. There are two types pf adsorption phenomena known as ___________
and ____________
4. Physical adsorption is also known as ______ or ______ while chemical
adsorption is known as ____ or_______
5. ____________ is a substance, usually a solid that collects molecules of
another substance on its surface
6. Adsorbent solids are usually in ______ form, varying in size from about
____ in diameter to ________
7. Chemical nature of solids have a lot to do with its ________
8. Adsorptive ability of a material depends largely on its _________
9. Three categories of industrial adsorption are __________ ___________
________
10.Oxygen containing compound are _______ and __________ examples
are _________ and ________
11.carbon containing compound are _______ and __________ examples
are _________ and ________
12.________ are polar and non-polar groups in a polymer matrix
13._________ are natural or synthetic crystalline allluminosilicate
14.One drawback of activated carbon is
15._________ are plots of equilibrium concentration of samples per volume
in the mobile phase to the equilibrium concentration per length of the
stationary phase
16.What are the four popular isotherm models
17.__________ is the simplest isotherm model it is also known as
18._________ isotherm model can be used to describe the initial part of
many practical isotherms
19.the Freundlich adsorption isotherm is mathematically represented as
_________
20.the _______ isotherm is used in cases where the actual identity of the
solute is not known
21.One limitation of the Freundlich adsorption isotherm is that __________
22.___________ adsorption model explains by assuming an adsorbate
behaves as an ideal gas
23.The Langmuir adsorption isotherm treats adsorbate binding as a
_________, its formula is _________
24.In Langmuir, the direct and inverse rate constants ate _____ and ____
25.What are the assumptions of the lanm9gmuir isotherm?
26.________ theory is an extension of the lanm9gmuir theory
27.__________ is a theory for multilayer adsorption
28.__________ theory is better for chemisorption
29._________ theory is better for physiosorption
30.________ method is extensively used for calculating surface area of
solids
 ADSORPTION ANSWERS

1. Adsorption
2. Surface
3. Physical adsorption (physiosorption) , chemical adsorption (chemisorption)
4. Phisiosorption or Vander Waals adsorption , activated adsorption
5. Adsorbent
6. Granular, 12mm to 50um
7. Adsorption characteristics
8. Empirical observation
9. Oxygen-containing compounds, carbon containing compounds, polymer
based compounds
10.Hydrophilic and polar, e.g. silica gel and zeolite
11.Hydrophobic and non-polar, e.g. activated carbon, graphite
12.Polymer based compounds
13.Zeolites
14.It reacts with oxygen 15. Adsorption isotherms
16.
a. Linear isotherm
b. Freundlich isotherm
c. Langmuir isotherm
d. BET isotherm
17.Linear isotherm
18.Linear isotherm
19.x/m = KP^(1/n)
20.freundlich isotherm
21.it fails at high pressure
22.Langmuir adsorption isotherm
23.Chemical reaction , Ag + S = Aad
24.K and K-1
25.
 a. All adsorption sites are equivalent and can only be occupied by one
molecule of adsorbate
b. No phase change is involved
c. No interaction between the adsorbate
d. Only a monolayer is formed
26.BET
27.BET
28.Langmuir
29.BET
30.BET