Chemical Engineering - Process Equipment and Plant Design

16.
A cylindrical storage tank can have a self supported conical roof,
if its diameter is less than 15-20metres.
if its diameter is more than 50 meters.
if the thickness of the roof is more than that of the cylindrical shell.
irrespective of its diameter.
Answer: Option
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17.
For high pressure process equipments/vessels, the connected nozzle should be
welded
screwed
flanged
brazed
Answer: Option
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18.
Smoker's equation for the calculation of number of equilibrium stages in a continuous binary distillation column is used, when the
relative volatility is close to one (e.g., separation of close boiling isomers).
feed is not at its bubble point.
number of equilibrium stages in only stripping section is to be calculated.
number of equilibrium stages required is likely to be very small.
Answer: Option
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19.
Column support for the roof of cylindrical storage tank must be provided for
small diameter tanks.
large diameter tanks.
small diameter tall tanks.
all tanks irrespective of their heights and diameters.
Answer: Option
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20.
For a cylinderical internally pressurised vessel, which of the following closure types would withstand highest pressure, if each closure is of the same material and thickness ?
hemispherical
ellipsoidal (2 : 1)
conical
flat plate
Answer: Option
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