Internship Questions

Questions asked during Internship (Session 2012) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. Waqas Iqbal What is Gibbs energy? What is Helmholtz energy? What is fugacity? What is activity coefficient? What is Raoults law? Why there is a need for the introduction of Fugacity Concept in thermodynamics? What is the dew point? What is bubble point? What would be the bubble point and dew point for water? What is clausis clapeyron Equation? What is adiabatic work equation and its application? Name the chart to measure vapor pressure? Absorption and condensation are endothermic or exothermic? Why we design heat exchanger? What is dummy tube in heat exchanger? What is dirt factor? Which type of steam is used in Heat Exchangers? What are the five types of friction for a fluid flowing in a pipe? What are the tube arrangements in heat exchanger? Why we incorporate baffles in a heat exchanger? What is difference between average temperature and LMTD? Why we use LMTD in heat Exchangers? What do you mean by single pass, 2 pass? Why falling film evaporator is called falling film evaporator? Difference between Falling film evaporator and vertical Evaporator? What is plate and frame heat exchanger? What is tie rod in heat exchangers? What is range and approach in case of heat exchangers? Why heat exchangers are installed in horizontal or vertical position? Heat duty depends on which factors? How we fill the shell side of a heat exchanger from bottom or top? What is tube pitch? How kettle type reboiler works? Where we use the phase which condenses either on tube or shell side? Where we use high pressure fluid either on shell or tube side? Where we use toxic fluid either on shell or tube side? What is the formula for dirt overall heat transfer coefficient? Page 1

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38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. Waqas Iqbal Q=UAT what is the name of this equation? Laws for conduction and convection? Why we add coagulant? Why we add flocculants? What is the need of a clarifier? What are the zones in the clarifier? Why lime is dosed in clarifier? Coagulant is added in the water before the clarifier why? Which is responsible for the primary nucleation in case of flocs formation? How Ion exchanges processes occur? Why polishers are implemented in Water Treatment? Why regeneration is done from bottom to top? In cation resin why Ca+2 is deposited first in the bed and Na+1 at the bottom ? What is prandtl number? Name that number which resembles basic property in heat transfer and mass transfer? Define the numbers which gives the same relation in heat and mass transfer? What is boundary layer? What is thermal boundary layer? How can we decrease boundary layer thickness? What is the difference between boundary layer and thermal boundary layer? How prandtl number effect boundary layer? What is nusslet number and it application? What is shroud number and its application? What is the difference between friction and fanning friction factor? What is boiler and its types? What is mud drum? What is steam drum? What are the different kinds of steam? Which kind of steam has the higher heat transfer coefficient? Why pressure remains constant during superheating? Which steam possess higher heat transfer coefficient saturated steam or super-heated? How high pressure steam is converted in to medium and low pressure steam? What is de super-heated steam? Difference between vapor and gas? What are blow downs in boiler and its types? What are the safeties on the boiler? Which safety will pop first in case of a boiler? What is npsh? 5 ways to increase npsh? What is the difference between friction factor and fining friction factor? What are the performance curves in case of pumps? Does vendor provides performance curve? Page 2

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79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. Waqas Iqbal Temperature effect on performance curves? What is duty point in pumps? If we have two pipes one has greater area as compare to the other pipe which pipe would have greater suction pressure? Justify your answer Pressure is additive property or not, justify your answer? Temperature is additive property or not, justify your answer? What is churning effect? What is surging in compressor? Which is the main parameter in surging? What is flushing in pumps? What is purging in pumps? What is charring in pumps? What is submergeable pump? Pump works on adiabatic or isothermal principle? What is the difference series and parallel pump? What is screw pump and why it is used? What is the difference between capacity and flow rate? What are affinity laws for pumps? What is the purpose of minimum flow lines in centrifugal pumps? Which Pipe develops larger pressure smaller one or greater one? Why a compressor is needed in brayton cycle? Why a combustion chamber is needed in brayton cycle? What is back pressure turbine? What is the difference between induction and Extraction steam turbine? What are condensing or non-condensing turbines? If we extract less steam from turbine, boiler load increases or decreases? What is the difference between primary and secondary air? What is vapor pressure? Define the numbers which gives the same relation in heat and mass transfer? What is the function of the Catalyst? What is Activation Energy? What is approach and range in cooling tower? What is wet bulb temperature? In summer the process water and outside outer temperature of atmosphere are neatly equal in ffc, then how cooling occurs in cooling tower? In which cooling tower rate of cooling is greater either in cross or counter current flow? What is the principle in cooling tower? Which heat is mainly involved in cooling operation for cooling towers? What is fluid dynamics? Explain the behavior of water at 4 C? Why ice floats over water? Page 3

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118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. What is see back effect? What is the minimum pressure that can be measured? When flow rate pressure drop is increased or not? Difference between venturi and orifice meter? In which product energy is greater exothermic and endothermic? What is control valve and its application? What is block & bleeder valve arrangement? What is steam trap, principle and its application? What are ejectors?

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