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1.

While the total emissivity of a perfect black body is unity, the same for a real body is__________________?

A. 0
B. 1
C. > 1
D. Between 0 and 1
Answer» E.
2.

With increase in porosity, the thermal conductivity of a solid substance__________________?

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains unchanged
D. May increase or decrease; depends on the solid
Answer» C. Remains unchanged
3.

With increase in temperature, the thermal conductivity of fresh lubricating oil ___________________?

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains unchanged
D. May increase or decrease; depends on its composition
Answer» C. Remains unchanged
4.

With increase in temperature, the thermal conductivity of most liquids_________________?

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remain same
D. First increases upto a certain temperature and then becomes constant
Answer» C. Remain same
5.

With increase in temperature, the thermal conductivity of a gas ___________________?

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remain same
D. May increase or decrease depending on the type of gas
Answer» B. Decreases
6.

With increase in temperature, the thermal conductivity of non-metallic amorphous solids_________________?

A. Decreases
B. Increases
C. Remain constant
D. First decreases upto certain temperature and then increases
Answer» C. Remain constant
7.

With increase in temperature, the total emissivity of conductors____________________?

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remain same
D. Decreases linearly
Answer» B. Decreases
8.

With increase in temperature, the thermal conductivity of steel___________________?

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains unchanged
D. Increases exponentially
Answer» C. Remains unchanged
9.

With increase in the distance between the heat source and the object receiving the heat, the radiation heat transfer ?

A. Decreases
B. Increases
C. Increases exponentially
D. Remain unaffected
Answer» B. Increases
10.

With the increase of temperature, the Col-burn jH factor_____________________?

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains unchanged
D. May increase or decrease; depending on temperature
Answer» B. Decreases
11.

Which of the following parameters of the fluid is not very important, while deciding its route in a shell and tube heat exchanger ?

A. Corrosiveness & fouling characteristics
B. Pressure
C. Viscosity
D. Density
Answer» E.
12.

Which of the following is not concerned with the heat transfer ?

A. Brinkman number
B. Stanton number
C. Schmidt number
D. Peclet number
Answer» D. Peclet number
13.

Which of the following is generally considered as opaque surface towards radiations ?

A. Gases
B. Solids
C. Liquids
D. Both B. and C.
Answer» E.
14.

Which is the most suitable for the concert-ration of highly concentrated solution ?

A. Open pan evaporation
B. Long tube vertical evaporator
C. Agitated film evaporator
D. None of these
Answer» B. Long tube vertical evaporator
15.

When warm and cold liquids are mixed, the heat transfer is mainly by_______________?

A. Conduction
B. Convection
C. Radiation
D. Both A. & C.
Answer» C. Radiation
16.

When vaporisation takes place through a blanketting film of gas, the phenomenon is termed as ___________________ boiling?

A. Pool
B. Nucleate
C. Transition
D. Film
Answer» E.
17.

When vaporisation takes place directly at the heating surface, it is called________________?

A. Film boiling
B. Nucleate boiling
C. Vapour binding
D. None of these
Answer» C. Vapour binding
18.

When the ratio of the Grashoff number and to the square of Reynolds number is one, the dominant mechanism of heat transfer is _______________?

A. Free convection
B. Entry length problem in laminar forced conduction (developing thermal boundary layer)
C. Mixed convection (both free and forced)
D. Forced convection
Answer» D. Forced convection
19.

Wavelength corresponding to the maximum energy is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature. This is ________________ law?

A. Stefan’s
B. Dalton’s
C. Wien’s
D. Kirchoff’s
Answer» D. Kirchoff’s
20.

Water is normally used as a coolant in the heat exchange equipments mainly because of its___________________?

A. Abundance & high heat capacity
B. Low density
C. Low viscosity
D. High fluidity
Answer» B. Low density
21.

Walls of a cubical oven are of thickness l, and they are made of material of thermal conductivity k. The temperature inside the oven is 100°C and the inside heat transfer coefficient is „3k/l’. If the wall temperature on the outside is held at 25°C, what is the inside wall temperature in degree centigrade ?

A. 35.5
B. 43.75
C. 81.25
D. 48.25
Answer» D. 48.25
22.

Viscous & heat sensitive liquids are concentrated in _____________ evaporators?

A. Open pan
B. Long tube
C. Agitated film
D. None of these
Answer» D. None of these
23.

Viscosity of gases ______________ with increase in temperature?

A. Increase very rapidly
B. Increase slowly
C. Decrease slowly
D. Remain unaffected
Answer» C. Decrease slowly
24.

View factor is important in heat transfer by_____________________?

A. Steady state conduction
B. Natural convection
C. Forced convection
D. Radiation
Answer» E.
25.

Vibrations in the tubes of a shell and tube heat exchanger is induced due to the _________________?

A. Flow of fluid on the tube and shell sides
B. Oscillations in the flow of shell/tube sides fluid
C. Vibrations transmitted through piping and/or supports due to external reasons
D. All A., B. and C.
Answer» E.
26.

Vent pipes are provided in a condenser to ________________?

A. Remove non-condensable gases
B. Purge the condenser
C. Facilitate easy cleaning of tubes
D. None of these
Answer» B. Purge the condenser
27.

Value of Prandtl number for water ranges from_________________?

A. 1 to 2
B. 5 to 10
C. 100 to 500
D. 1000 to 2000
Answer» C. 100 to 500
28.

Value of Nusselt number [Nu = (hD/k)] for the heat transfer by conduction from a droplet or a spherical particle to a surrounding stagnant film is__________________?

A. 0.5
B. 2
C. 10
D. 100
Answer» C. 10
29.

Vacuum is generally maintained in the vapour space of an evaporator mainly to__________________?

A. Get economical temperature difference by using moderate pressure steam
B. Facilitate forward feeding in multiple effect evaporation
C. Concentrate heat sensitive materials
D. Achieve very high concentration of the final product
Answer» B. Facilitate forward feeding in multiple effect evaporation
30.

Use of transverse baffles in a shell and tube heat exchanger is done to increase the___________________?

A. Rate of heat transfer
B. Flow velocity
C. Turbulence of shell side fluid
D. All A., B. and C.
Answer» E.
31.

Unsteady state heat conduction occurs, when_______________?

A. Temperature distribution is independent of time
B. Temperature distribution is dependent on time
C. Heat flows in one direction only
D. Three dimensional heat flow is concerned
Answer» C. Heat flows in one direction only
32.

Tubes are held between top and bottom tube sheets in Calandria type evaporator by keeping_________________?

A. Both the tube sheets fixed
B. Both the tube sheets floating
C. The top tube sheet floating and bottom tube sheet fixed
D. The top tube sheet fixed and the bottom tube-sheet floating
Answer» B. Both the tube sheets floating
33.

Tube pitch is the _______________ of tube diameters and the clearances?

A. Sum
B. Difference
C. Ratio
D. None of these
Answer» B. Difference
34.

Tube expansion allowances exist in _____________ heat exchanger?

A. Multipass fixed tube sheet
B. U-tube
C. Single pass fixed tube sheet
D. None of these
Answer» C. Single pass fixed tube sheet
35.

Trap is used to remove ________________ from steam pipe lines?

A. Steam
B. Condensate
C. Non-condensable
D. None of these
Answer» C. Non-condensable
36.

To reduce the tube side pressure drop for the same flow rate, the heat exchanger recommended is _______________?

A. 1-2 heat exchanger
B. 1-1 heat exchanger
C. 3-2 heat exchanger
D. 2-4 heat exchanger
Answer» C. 3-2 heat exchanger
37.

Three materials A, B and C of equal thickness and of thermal conductivity of 20, 40 & 60 kcal/hr. m. °C respectively are joined together. The temperature outside of A and C are 30°C and 100°C respectively. The interface between B and C will be at a temperature of ____________ °C?

A. 40
B. 95
C. 70
D. 50
Answer» D. 50
38.

Thickness of thermal boundary layer is more compared to that of hydrodynamic boundary layer, when the value of Prandtl number is_________________?

A. 1
B. < 1
C. > 1
D. > 5
Answer» C. > 1
39.

Thermal diffusivity of a material __________________?

A. Has the unit m2 /sec
B. Is defined as K/ρ . Cp
C. Is the ratio of thermal conductivity to thermal capacity
D. All A., B. and C.
Answer» E.
40.

Thermal diffusivity is the most important in heat transfer by__________________?

A. Conduction
B. Radiation
C. Condensation
D. Natural convection
Answer» B. Radiation
41.

Thermal diffusivity is given by__________________?

A. k/ρCp
B. ρCp/k
C. μCp/a
D. μ/hCp
Answer» B. ρCp/k
42.

Thermal conductivity of a conducting solid material depends upon its_______________?

A. Temperature
B. Porosity
C. Both A. & B.
D. Neither A. nor B.
Answer» D. Neither A. nor B.
43.

Thermal conductivity of a gas at low density, ___________ with increase in temperature ?

A. Decreases
B. Increases
C. Remains unchanged
D. May increase or decrease; depends on the gas
Answer» C. Remains unchanged
44.

Thermal conductivities of most of the liquids _______________ with rise in temperature?

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains unchanged
D. May increase or decrease; depends on the liquid
Answer» C. Remains unchanged
45.

The wavelength at which the maximum monochromatic emissive power occurs for a black body, is (where, T = absolute temperature of the black body)?

A. αT
B. α × 1/T
C. α T4
D. Independent of T
Answer» C. α T4
46.

The variation of thermal conductivity of a metal with temperature is often correlated using an expression of the form K = K0 + at, where, K is the thermal conductivity and T is the temperature (in °K). The units of ‘a’ in SI system will be________________?

A. W/m.k
B. W/m
C. W/m.k2
D. None, ‘a’ is just a number
Answer» D. None, ‘a’ is just a number
47.

The value of Stefan-Boltzmann constant in SI unit is_________________?

A. 5.6697 × 10-8W/m2.°K4
B. 0.1714 × 10-8W/m2.°K4
C. 5.6697 × 10-8kcal/m2. °K4
D. 0.1714 × 10-8kcal/m2. °K4
Answer» B. 0.1714 × 10-8W/m2.°K4
48.

The units of resistance to heat transfer is _____________________?

A. J.m-2.K-1
B. J.m-1.K-1
C. W.m-2.K-1
D. W-1m2K
Answer» E.
49.

The unit of heat transfer co-efficient is_________________?

A. BTU/hr. ft2°F
B. BTU/hr. °F. ft
C. BTU/hr. °F
D. BTU/hr. ft
Answer» B. BTU/hr. °F. ft
50.

The unit of heat transfer co-efficient in SI unit is____________________?

A. J/M2°K
B. W/m2°K
C. W/m°K
D. J/m°K
Answer» C. W/m°K