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Principal type of gas-solid separator employing centrifugal force

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Cyclone

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2
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Evaporation is sometimes called ____

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Water distillation

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The total amount of evaporation an evaporator is capable of producing per unit time

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Capacity

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When the pressure of an evaporation chamber is decreased, the boiling point of the solution inside the chamber will _____

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Decrease

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The temperature driving force in an evaporator is determined as the difference between the condensing steam temperature and _____

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Boiling point of the solution

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In country where capital is scarce and energy cost is low, it is appropriate to install a ______ effect evaporator

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Single

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It is the deposition and growth on body walls, and especially on heating surfaces, of a material undergoing an irreversible chemical reaction in the evaporator

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Scaling

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It is the formation of deposits other than salt or scale and may be due to corrosion. It is caused by poor material of construction

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Fouling

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9
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Slow cooling produces ____ crystals, and fast cooling produces ____ crystals

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Large, small

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The process by which crystalline bodies are created within a supersaturated fluid

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Nucleation

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The ability of a substance to crystallize into different crystalline forms

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Polymorphism

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Major stage of a crystallization process, and consists of the addition of new atoms, ions, or polymer strings into the characteristic arrangement of the crystalline lattice

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Crystal growth

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13
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Technique widely employed to provide preformed templates on which new molecules can converge to form crystals

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Seeding

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When a solution is cooled to produce a supersaturated solution, the heat that must be removed is the sum of the ______ necessary to cool the solution and the heat of crystallization

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Sensible heat content

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15
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During sensible cooling, relative humidity _____

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Increases

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16
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Removal of all moisture from a wet solid requires _____

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Perfectly dry air

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17
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Portion of water that cannot be removed by the air in its contact

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Equilibrium moisture content

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18
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Moisture contained by a substance in excess of the equilibrium moisture

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Free moisture

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19
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Drying method employed for heat sensitive materials such as pharmaceuticals and food stuff

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Freeze drying or lyophilization

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20
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Detergent solution is dried to a powder in a _____

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Spray dryer

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21
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Calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer is dried using a _____

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Rotary dryer

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22
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Feed characteristics for forward feed evaporation

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Hot

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23
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Feed characteristics for backward feed evaporation

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Heat sensitive, viscous

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24
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Feed characteristics for parallel feed evaporation

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High feed rate

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Advantage of parallel feed evaporation
Prevents salting or precipitation of solids
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Suitable evaporator for concentration of foaming liquid
Long tube evaporator
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Unit operation in which a soluble component is removed from an inert solid by a solvent which preferentially dissolves the soluble matter
Leaching
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Unit operation by which soluble components of a liquid mixture are dissolved in a liquid immiscible with the insoluble component
Solvent extraction
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Common leaching solvent in the vegetable oil industry
Hexane
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In a counter-current extractor, extraction efficiency ____ with increasing axial mixing
Decreases
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Extractor used for extraction of oil from oilseed
Bollman extractor
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Extractor used in mineral processing to extract metals (e.g., Au and U) from their ores
Pachuca Tank
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Extractor used to treat radioactive nuclear waste
Pulsed column extractor
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Liquid-liquid extraction is based on the differences in _____
solubility
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Single large washing is _____ effective than repeated small washing
Less
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Why should the solvent used in liquid extraction not have a high latent heat of vaporization?
Recovery cost by distillation is high
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Liquid-liquid extraction is preferred when extracting solvent is _____
cheap and abundantly available
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TRUE or FALSE: In a counter-current liquid extractor, only one of the liquids may be pumped at any desired rate
True
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It is comprised of a thin bed of substances with high porosity used in a mixer-settler liquid-liquid extraction column to increase the bubble size of the entering settler and to increase the settling rate of the bubbles.
Coalescer
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Extraction equipment which best handles antibiotics
Podbielniak extractor
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The relative volatility of most ideal binary solutions is _____ affected by temperature
greatly
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Increasing the operating pressure of a distillation column makes separation ____
Difficult
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Distillation technique used to avoid thermal decomposition of a component
Steam distillation
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In steam distillation, the amount of steam required per unit quantity of distillate is reduced by ____ temperature, and ____ total pressure.
Increasing temperature, decreasing total pressure
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Cooled liquid stream returned to the column to a cool plate or stage
Reflux
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The pressure in a distilling column decreases from ____ to _____
Bottom to top
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The temperature in a distilling column decreases from ____ to _____
Bottom to top
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In a distillation column, the heat removed in the cooler ____ with increasing reflux ratio
Increases
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Fenske equation is applicable when
Relative volatility is constant
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Design calculation for multiple component distillation
Fenske-Underwood-Gilliland (tray-to-tray calculations)
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Distillation technique wherein solvent is added to alter the relative volatility of the mixture
Extractive distillation
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Distillation technique employed to separate a constant boiling mixture
Azeotropic distillation
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Material passing one screening surface and retained on a subsequent surface
Intermediate material
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Indicates the number of holes per linear inch
Mesh number
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TRUE or FALSE: The Ponchon-Savarit method is more accurate than McCabe-Thiele method to determine the number of theoretical stages required for the separation of non-ideal binary systems by distillation
True
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TRUE or FALSE: In Ponchon-Savarit method, the stripping and rectifying operating lines are vertical at total reflux
True
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TRUE or FALSE: Dehydration of ethyl alcohol is most economically done by molecular distillation at very high vacuum
False
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For an azeotropic mixture, the equilibrium liquid composition is ____ the vapor composition
Equal
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Size measurement expression for coarse particles
cm, in, mm
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Size measurement expression for ultrafine particles
surface area per unit mass
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Size measurement expression for fine particles
mesh
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Size measurement expression for very fine particles
microns
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Property of a material to resist indentation or scratches
Hardness
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Mohs Hardness Scale
Soft: talc, gypsum, calcite Intermediate: fluorite, apatite, feldspar Hard: quartz, topaz, corundum, diamond
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Moisture content of coarse solids
< 3-4%
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Moisture content of fine solids
> 50%
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Reduction ratio (R = Df/Dp) for coarse solids
R = 5 to 7
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Reduction ratio (R = Df/Dp) for fine solids
R ≈ 100
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Measure of rate of grinding of materials in a particular mill
Grindability
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Equipment for coarse size reduction
Hard: jaw crusher, gyratory crusher Soft: squirrel cage disintegrator, hammer mill
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Equipment for intermediate size reduction
Cone crusher, crushing rolls, roller crusher
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Equipment for fine size reduction
Ball mill, tube mill, pebble mill, rod mill
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Mechanism for coarse size reduction
Compression
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Mechanism for fine size reduction
Impaction
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Mechanism for very fine size reduction
Attrition
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Mechanism for shaped size reduction
Cutting
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Equipment for ultrafine size reduction
Fluid energy mill
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The operating speed of a ball mill should be _____ than the critical speed
Less
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The critical speed of a ball mill is dependent on
Radius of mill (D) and ball (d)
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Operation by which solids are separated from liquids due to the difference in densities
Sedimentation
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Forces acting on a particle settling in fluid
Gravitational or centrifugal, buoyant, and drag forces
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Used to increase the porosity of the cake during filtration
Filter aid
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Cake porosity is ____ at the filter medium
Minimum
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In gas absorption, one solute is being absorbed while the rest of the components are assumed to be ____, and the liquid is _____
non-soluble, non-volatile
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Ideal conditions in a gas absorber
low T, high P
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Ideal conditions in a stripping column
high T, low P
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The operating velocity in a packed tower is usually ____ the flooding velocity
Half
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Types of membrane modules
Plate and frame Tubular Spiral-wound Capillary Hollow-fiber
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Membrane configuration with low surface area per volume, used in flat and plate modules
Flat
90
Membrane configuration with high surface per volume; feed is preferably inside the membrane
Tubular
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Fraction of stream that passes through a membrane
Permeate
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Fraction retained in the membrane
Retentate
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Usual flow arrangement for plate and frame module membranes
Perpendicular/cross flow
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Selective flow by a fluid
Channeling
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Instrument to prevent channeling in membrane separation
Stop disk
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Advantages of plate and frame module
Easy to clean, easy to replace, high work pressure, for high viscosity liquids
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Disadvantage of plate and frame module
Small area to volume ratio
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Advantages of spiral-wound module
High packing density, easy and inexpensive
99
Disadvantages of spiral-wound module
Difficult to clean, high pressure drop, only for pure media
100
Advantages of tubular modules
Resistant to fouling, easy to clean
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Disadvantages of tubular modules
Low packing density, expensive
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Applications of tubular modules
Reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration
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Type of module with the highest packing density (30,000 m²/m³)
Hollow-fiber module
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Advantages of hollow-fiber module
High packing density, low cost
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Disadvantages of hollow-fiber module
high fouling, high pressure drop

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