1.

The terminal velocity of a solid spherical particle falling through a stationary fluid mass in the Stoke's law range is proportional to the A. B. C. D. inverse of fluid viscosity. square of particle size. difference in the densities of the particle & fluid. all (a), (b) and (c).

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 2.

Which of the following equations as suggested by Colebrook and White gives the increase in roughness of a new surface (0) with age/time (t) (where, = roughness of the surface after time't'. = a co-efficient to be experimentally determined)? A. B. C. D. = 0 + .t = 0 + .t2 = 0 + .t3 = 0 + .t4

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 3.

Nominal size of a pipe is an indication of its __________ diameter. A. inner

B. C. D.

outer approximate none of these

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 4.

Fluidised beds are formed, when the A. B. C. D. fluid friction is zero gravity force is less than the fluid friction. pressure forces equal gravity forces. sum of the fluid friction and pressure forces is equal and opposite to gravity forces.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 5.

A fluid is pumped at the rate of 10 lb/sec to a height of 55 ft. The horse power required is __________ hp. A. C. 1 5.5 B. D. 10/55 1/55

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A

Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.

6.

Pick out the wrong statement: A. B. C. The vacuum pressure is always the negative gauge pressure. The pressure of the liquid measured by a piezometer tube is the gauge pressure. Manometric liquid should have high surface tension. The point at which the resultant pressure on an immersed surface acts, is known as the centre of gravity.

D.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 7.

Medium viscosity lubricating oil can be most ideally pumped by a __________ pump. A. C. vane centrifugal B. D. piston plunger

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 8. In a fully turbulent flow (Re > 105) in a pipe of diameter 'd', for a constant pressure gradient, the dependence of volumetric flow rate of an incompressible fluid is A. C. d d2.5 B. D. d2 d4

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 9.

Pump used for the transportation of molten sodium in a fast breader reactor is a/an __________ pump. A. C. reciprocating electromagnetic B. D. plunger gear

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 10. Small pressure differences in liquids is measured using a/an A. B. C. D. U-tube manometer. inclined tube manometer. pitot tube. none of these.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.

11. With increase in pump speed, its NPSH requirement

A. B. C. D.

decreases increases remains unaltered can either increase or decrease ; depends on other factors

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 12. In the Newton's law range, the terminal velocity of a solid spherical particle falling through a stationary fluid mass is __________ thefluid viscosity. A. B. C. D. directly proportional to inversely proportional to inversely proportional to the square root of independent of

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 13. Gear pump A. B. is a positive displacement pump. is a centrifugal pump.

C. D.

is a non-positive displacement pump. can be started with delivery valve closed.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 14. Most of the centrifugal pumps used in chemical plants are usually __________ driven. A. B. C. D. steam diesel engine electric motor gas turbine

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 15. Check valve provided in the discharge line of a centrifugal pump serves the purpose of controlling the A. B. C. D. back flow of fluid in the event of stoppage of pump. discharge pressure. flow of liquid during operation of the pump. all (a), (b) and (c).

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. 16. Venturimeters, orificemeters and nozzles are used to measure the fluid discharge from a pipeline. The average fluid velocity in a pipeline can be measured by a/an A. B. C. D. weir hot wire anemometer cup and vane aneometer none of these

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 17. The time taken for gravity flow of a fixed volume of liquid (as in Redwood viscometer) is directly proportional to its A. B. C. D. absolute viscosity. ratio of absolute viscosity to density. density. Reynolds number.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.

View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 18. The exit cone angle in case of a standard venturimeter is __________ the entrance cone angle. A. B. C. D. smaller than greater than equal to either (a) or (b)

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 19. Sewage sludge is __________ type of non-Newtonion fluid. A. B. C. D. dilatant Bingham plastic Pseudo plastic none of these

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 20. Ratio of pressure and inertia force gives __________ number. A. Weber B. Mach

C.

Euler

D.

Froude

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.

21. Permanent loss in a venturimeter is about __________ percent of the pressure drop in theupstream cone. A. B. C. D. 1 10 . 40 70

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 22. Volume of liquid displaced by a floating body is equivalent to its A. B. C. D. own weight submerged weight own volume submerged volume

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation:

No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 23. The __________ is measured by a piezometric opening. A. B. C. D. dynamic pressure static pressure total pressure point velocity

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 24. What is the pipe called which lifts water from a reservoir to a greater height than the initial level in the supply reservoir ? A. B. C. D. Penstock Siphon Tunnel Pressure pipeline

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 25. Steady uniform flow is represented by flow through a/an

A. B. C. D.

long pipe at constant rate. long pipe at decreasing rate. expanding tube at constant rate. none of these.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. 26. Pick out the correct statement pertaining to the flow through a converging-diverging tube. A. The value of Mach number is always unity at the throat. No shock wave develops in the tube when the Mach number at exit is greater than unity. Throughout the converging portion of the tube, the density increases in the downstream direction. none of these.

B.

C.

D.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 27. Cavitation can be prevented by A. B. C. suitably designing the pump. maintaining the suction head sufficiently greater than the vapour pressure. maintaining suction head = developed head.

D.

maintaining suction head lower than the vapour pressure.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 28. Assuming flow to be laminar, if the diameter of the pipe is halved, then the pressure drop will A. B. C. D. increase decrease remain same be quadrupled

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 29. Steady flow occurs, when the A. B. C. D. conditions change steadily with time. conditions are the same at the adjacent points at any instant. conditions do not change with time at any point. rate of the velocity change is constant.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C

Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 30. With increase in the ratio of orifice diameter to pipe diameter, the fraction of the orifice pressure differential that is permanently lost A. B. C. D. increases decreases remains unchanged increases exponentially

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. 31. Which of the following two quantities when same, makes one pipe system equivalent to another pipe system ? A. B. C. D. Head & discharge Length & discharge Length & diameter Friction factor & diameter.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 32. The kinetic energy correction factor for velocity distribution of laminar flow is

A. C.

0.5 1

B. D.

1.66 2

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 33. Priming of a centrifugal pump is done to A. B. C. D. increase the mass flow rate of fluid. develop effective pressure rise by the pump. avoid chances of separation inside the impeller. none of these.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 34. Bed pressure drop in an air fluidised bed of catalyst particles (p = 200 kg/m3, Dp = 0.05 cm) of 60 cm bed depth and bed porosity of 0.5 expressed in cm of water (manometer) is A. C. 90 45 B. D. 60 30

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation:

No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 35. For pipes that must be broken at intervals for maintenance, the connector used should be a/an A. C. union reducer B. D. tee elbow

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.

36. A fluid is the one, which A. B. C. D. cannot remain at rest under the action of shear force. continuously expands till it fills any container. is incompressible. permanently resists distortion.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 37. One horsepower is equal to A. B. C. 550 lbf.ft/second 550 kgf.m/second both (a) and (b)

D.

550 lbf.ft./hr

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 38. For one dimensional flow of an incompressible fluid in unsteady state in x-direction, the continuity equation is given by A.

B.

C.

D.
Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 39. A fluid is moving at critical flow condition (NRe = 2100) through a pipe of dia 3 cms. Velocity of flow is __________ cm/sec. A. 7 B. 700

C.

7000

D.

630

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 40. Capillary rise of mercury in a small diameter tube is proportional to (where, d = diameter of the tube, = surface tension of mercury) A. B. C. D. d 1/d l/

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. 41. The pressure drop per unit length of pipe incurred by a fluid 'X' flowing through pipe is p. If another fluid 'Y' having both the specific gravity & density just double of that of fluid 'X', flows through the same pipe at the same flow rate/average velocity, then the pressure drop in this case will be A. C. p p2 B. D. 2p p/2

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.

View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 42. Fluid flow in a/an __________ is an example of pressure flow. A. B. C. D. partially filled pipeline pipe open channel river.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option B Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 43. In the laminar boundary layer flow over a flat plate, the ratio (/x) varies as :(where, '' is the boundary layer thickness and 'x' is the distance from the leading edge in the direction of flow). A. B. C. D. Re Re 1/Re Re-1/2

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 44. A rotameter through which air at room temperature and atmospheric pressure is flowing gives a certain reading for a flow rate of 100 cc/sec. If helium (molecular weight 4) is used and rotameter shows the same reading, the flow rate (cc/sec) is

A. C.

26 269

B. D.

42 325

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 45. A 0.5 m high bed made up of a 1 mm dia glass sphere (density 2500 kg/m3 ) is to be fluidised by water (density 1000 kg/m3 ). If at the point of incipient fluidisation, the bed voidage is 40%, the pressure drop across the bed is A. B. C. D. 4.4 KPa 2.94 KPa 3.7 KPa none of these

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.

46. Absolute viscosity of a fluid is a function of the __________ of the fluid. A. B. C. D. motion pressure & temperature shearing stress both(b)&(c)

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 47. Select the wrong statement pertaining to flow of an incompressible fluid through a venturimeter. A. For frictionless flow, the fluid pressure entering the venturi meter will be exactly equal to that leaving the venturimeter. Discharge of fluid through a venturimeter depends upon the gage difference irrespective of the orientation of venturimeter. Venturimeter occupies less space than an orificemeter. Venturimeter incurs less power loss compared to an equivalent orificemeter.

B.

C. D.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option C Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 48. Reynolds number for water flow through a tube of I.D. 5 cm is 1500. If a liquid of 5 centipoise viscosity and 0.8 specific gravity flows in the same pipe at the same velocity, then the pressure drop will A. B. C. D. increase decrease remain same data insufficient to predict pressure drop

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A

Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 49. The bulk modulus of elasticity of a liquid A. B. C. D. is zero for incompressible liquid. decreases with pressure. is independent of temperature & pressure. increases with pressure.

Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option D Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss. View Answer Workspace Report Discuss in Forum 50. The inherent characteristic of an equal percentage valve relating flow rate 'q' with valve stem movement 'x' are described by the equation A.

B.

C.

D.
Answer & Explanation

Answer: Option A

Explanation: No answer description available for this question. Let us discuss.