Engineering Sciences
GATE XE exam:gate PYQs
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Question 149
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Which among the following expression(s) is/are correct?
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In sieve analysis of coffee powder, the particle size distribution is given below.
Number of particles Mean particle size (μm)
5 40
8 30
50 20
90 17.5
148 12.5
10 10
The Sauter mean diameter (in μm) of the coffee powder is ______ (round off to one decimal place).
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In a dairy processing plant, milk enters a 30 m long and 2 cm diameter tube at 60 °C and leaves at 57 °C. The total heat loss over the tube length is 381.5 W. The specific heat capacity, density, and viscosity of milk are 3.85 kJ kg⁻¹ K⁻¹, 1020 kg m⁻³, and 1.20 cP, respectively. The Reynolds number for the flow is ______ (round off to the nearest integer).
Given: π = 3.14
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Apple juice flows through a steel pipe having thermal conductivity of 50 W m⁻¹ K⁻¹. The outer surface of pipe is exposed to ambient environment. The inside diameter and thickness of the pipe are 3 cm and 1.5 cm, respectively. The overall heat transfer coefficient based on inside area is 25 W m⁻² K⁻¹. If the internal convective heat transfer coefficient is 30 W m⁻² K⁻¹, the external convective heat transfer coefficient (in W m⁻² K⁻¹) will be ________ (round off to two decimal places).
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The dry bulb temperature and relative humidity of air inside a storage chamber are 37 °C and 50%, respectively. The saturation pressure of water vapour at 37 °C and barometric pressure are 6.28 kPa and 101.32 kPa, respectively. The humidity ratio of air inside the chamber is ______ kg water (kg dry air)⁻¹ (round off to three decimal places).
Given: Molecular weight of water vapour and dry air are 18.02 g mol⁻¹ and 28.97 g mol⁻¹, respectively.
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The figure shows a schematic of vertical profiles of concentrations of two gases P and Q in the atmosphere near a coastal state. The correct pair representing P and Q, respectively, is

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A form of momentum equation for an incompressible fluid is
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
where
is density,
is velocity,
is time,
is pressure,
is viscosity and
represents body force per unit volume. The dimension of term (iii) is(M, L and T stand for mass, length and time, respectively).
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Tropical cyclones usually do not form close to the Equator primarily because
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Which one of the following statements regarding equatorial under current (EUC) in the Pacific Ocean is correct?
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Which one of the following statements is correct regarding the dominant energy balance in the troposphere in a tropical convergence zone?
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