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Test Your knowledge on Packed Columns and Packings – Online Quiz

Last updated May 21, 2017

Packed columns are an integral part of any Chemical Processing Industry. Packed column’s, Trays and Packings find a wide range of applications like Absorption, Distillation, Stripping, Gas Cooling etc. The selection of the type, material of construction of packing affects the affects the heat and mass transfer inside the column.

How well do you know the ABC’s of Packed Columns? It’s time to take our resourceful online Quiz module to find out!

Packed Columns

 

1. 

In the above picture containing Types of Packings, Which one of the following is True

2. 

Channelling is most severe

3. 

Flooding results in

4. 

Flooding in a column results due to

5. 

In case of an absorber, the operating line

6. 

Rasching ring made of procelain cannot be used for treating concentrated

7. 

Very tall packed towers are divided into series of beds to

8. 

which of the following provides maximum contact surface for a liquid-vapour system?

9. 

Channelling in a packed tower results from the

10. 

Under conditions of flooding in packed tower, the gas pressure drop

11. 

With decrease in the throughput (compared with the design capacity) for a bubble cap distillation column, its efficiency

12. 

Which of these columns incurs the lowest  pressure drop ?

13. 

Diameter to height ratio for a Raschig ring is

14. 

Small diameter distillation column can  be a

15. 

In an absorption column, the flooding velocity for random packing is ........... that for stacked/regular packing

16. 

For absorbing a sparingly soluble gas in a liquid

17. 

Stacked packing compared to random packing

18. 

The Inventor of Raschig rings was

19. 

If the turndown ratio requirement of the process is High, the suitable Tray type is

20. 

The cheaper tray type is

21. 

The Liquid Redistributor requirement is low in which of the following packing type?

22. 

The best method to install the Ceramic Saddles inside the tower is

23. 

In the following picture containing Types of Trays, Which one is True

24. 

Pulsing in a Distillation Column occurs when

25. 

Blowing occurs inside the Distillation Column when

26. 

Which one is suitable for handling Foaming systems?

27. 

For Cooling the Hot CO2 gas using Water which one of the following is preferred?

28. 

In the case of 'Weep Point' (Velocity), which one is False?

29. 

HETP =

30. 

High Purity/ Recovery can be achieved by

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