Chemical Engineering MCQs

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Solvent extraction is the terminology applied to the liquid-liquid extraction, which is preferred for the separation of the components of liquids, when____________________?
A. Extracting solvent is cheaply & abundantly available
B. One of the liquid components is heat sensitive
C. Viscosity of liquid components is very high
D. One of the liquid components has very high affinity towards the solvent
For the air water system under ambient conditions, the adiabatic saturation temperature and the wet bulb temperature are nearly equal, because__________________?
A. Water has a high latent heat of evaporation
B. Lewis number is close to unity
C. They are always equal under all circumstances
D. Solubility of the components of air in water is very small
Which of the following unit operations makes use of Thiele-Geddes equation ?
A. Liquid-liquid extraction
B. Solid-liquid extraction
C. Multi-component absorption with chemical reaction
D. Multi-component distillation
Air at a particular humidity is heated in a furnace. The new dew point_____________________?
A. Decreases
B. Increases
C. Depends on the extent of heating
D. Remain unchanged