Chemical Engineering
GATE CH topic:process-engineering PYQs
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Questions 81–90 of 650. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 16
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The boundary of a system does not allow exchange of either mass or energy (in the form of heat and/or work) with the surroundings. The system is termed
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In industrial heat exchanger design, the overall heat transfer coefficient
is estimated from the equation
where
and
are the convective heat transfer coefficients on the inner and outer side of the tube, respectively. This is valid for (i) tube of (ii) thermal conductivity.Which one of the following is the CORRECT option to fill in the gaps (i) and (ii)?
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The sum of the components of the force due to pressure and shear at the solid-fluid boundary of a solid body in the direction normal to the flow is
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Choose the CORRECT option for pathlines, streaklines and streamlines for a STEADY flow field.
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Choose the CORRECT ordering of the diameter
of the different types of pores in a solid catalyst.Your answerChoose one option.
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Schmidt number is defined as
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If
is the mass transfer coefficient and
is the molecular diffusivity, which one of the following statements is NOT CORRECT with respect to mass transfer theories?Your answerChoose one option.
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Choose the CORRECT statement that describes the dependence of the variance (
) of the residence time distribution (RTD) with respect to the number of tanks (
) in the Tanks-in-Series model of non-ideal reactors.Your answerChoose one option.
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The vortex shedding meter is primarily used for measuring
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Choose the transfer function that best fits the output response to a unit step input change shown in the figure

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