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Agriculture – Engineering Properties of Biological Material Questions And Answers (English)

1. The property which is useful and necessary in the design and operation of various equipment
employed in the field of agricultural processing
(A) Engineering properties (B) Mechanical properties
(C) Chemical properties (D) None of the above

2. Which of the following physical properties are

(A) Size and shape (B) Surface area
(C) Volume density (D) All

3. Various type of cleaning grading and separation equipment are designed on the basis of
(A) Physical properties of seed (B) Mechanical
(C) Chemical (D) Aero dynamic

4. Roundness is a measure of the sharpness of the

(A) Solid material (B) Liquid material
(C) Spray material (D) Semi solid material

5. The most widely accepted methods for determining the roundness of irregular particles are
(A) Roundness = largest projected area of the particles when it is in natural rest position/ area of
smallest circumscribing circle
(B) Roundness = area of smallest circumscribing circle/ largest projected area of the particles when it
is in natural rest position
(C) All of the above
(D) None of the above

6. The ratio of the diameter of a sphere of the same volume as that of the particles of the smallest
circumscribing sphere
(A) Sphericity (B) Roundness
(C) Circular (D) Square

7. The geometric mean diameter of the particle is also called

(A) Equivalent diameter (B) Major diameter
(C) Minor diameter (D) All of the above

8. The air velocity at which particles remains in suspended state in a vertical pipe
(A) Terminal velocity (B) Terminal force
(C) Drag force (D) Angle of repose

9. The drag coefficient of the material and its resistance to air flow depends upon
(A) Bed thickness of the material (B) Type shape and size of grain
(C) Air velocity (D) Packing of material
(E) All of the above

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Agriculture – Engineering Properties of Biological Material Questions And Answers (English)

10. The frictional forces acting between surface of contact as rest with respect to each other
(A) Static friction (B) Dynamic friction
(C) Angle of repose (D) All of the above

11. The friction forces existing between the surfaces in

(A) Relative motion (B) Vertical motion
(C) Horizontal motion (D) All of the above

12. The angle between the base and the slop of the cone formed on a free vertical fall of the granular
material to a horizontal plane
(A) Angle of repose (B) Dynamic angle of repose
(C) Static angle of repose (D) All of the above

13. The angle of friction taken up by granular material to just slide upon
(A) Static angle of repose (B) Dynamic angle of repose
(C) Static angle of repose (D) All of the above

14. The science which deals with the deformation and flow of the material under action of the applied
forces
(A) Rheological properties (B) Physical
(C) Chemical (D) Aero dynamic

15. DMI stands for:

(A) Directorate of marketing inspection (B) Direct of marketing inspection
(C) Directorate of marking inspection (D) Directorate of marketing intelligence

16. The word agmark is derived from

(A) Agriculture market (B) A-Mark market
(C) Agriculture processing (D) Agricultural marketing

17. BIS stands for:

(A) Board of Indian standards (B) Bureau of India standards
(C) Bureau of Indian standards (D) None of the above

18. Codex alimentarius commission was established in

(A) 1962 (B) 1983
(C) 1893 (D) 1975

19. The angle of repose increases with the increase of

(A) Moisture content (B) Humidity
(C) Pressure (D) Temprature

20. The impact and shear resistance are important for

(A) Size reduction (B) Size setting
(C) Size shaping (D) None of the above

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Agriculture – Engineering Properties of Biological Material Questions And Answers (English)

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