1. Why are tubes rolled and press-fitted, or welded, into a tube sheet?

a) To provide a leak tight seal.

b) To allow for thermal expansion.
c) To prevent corrosion of the tubes.
d) To reduce manufacturing costs.

2. What does a plate type heat exchanger consist of?

a) A set of tubes in a container called a shell.
b) A set of plates in a container called a shell.
c) A set of plates separating hot and cold flowing mediums.
d) A set of plates separating one flowing medium and one solid substance.

3. What components are used to force a flowing fluid to pass over a shell and
tube heat exchanger’s tubes multiple times?
a) Baffles.
b) Tube sheets.
c) Shells.
d) End plates

4. Which one is having highest value of overall heat transfer coefficient?

a) Steam condensers
b) Feed water heaters
c) Alcohol condensers
d) Steam
5. A cross flow type air heater has an area of 50 cm 2. The overall heat transfer
coefficient is 100 W/m2 K and heat capacity of both hot and cold stream is
1000 W/m K. The value of NTU is
a) 1000
b) 500
c) 5
d) 0.2

6. In a balanced counter flow heat exchanger with m h c h = m c c c, the NTU is

equal to unity. What is the effectiveness of heat exchanger?
a) 0.5
b) 1.5
c) 0.33
d) 0.2

7. Some examples of heat exchanger are

(i) Condensers and evaporators in refrigeration units
(ii) Evaporator of an ice plant and milk chiller of a pasteurizing plant
(iii) Automobile radiators and oil coolers of heat engines

Identify the correct answer

a) i only
b) ii and iii
c) i, ii and iii
d) i and ii
8. Which one is having the highest value of fouling factor?
a) Sea water
b) Distilled water
c) Liquid gasoline
d) Clean river

9. The boiling process has wide-spread applications in

(i) Production of steam in nuclear and steam power plants for generation and
for industrial processes and space heating
(ii) Absorption of heat in refrigeration and air-conditioning systems
(iii) Concentration, dehydration and drying of foods and materials

Identify the correct statements

a) i and ii
b) ii and iii
c) i, ii and iii
d) i and iii

10. The phenomenon of stable film boiling is referred to as

a) Nucleate effect
b) Boiling regimes
c) Leiden frost effect
d) Von karma effect

11. According to the Nusselt's theory, to determine the heat transfer coefficient
for film condensation on surfaces,
A. the vapour should be pure, dry and saturated
B. the condensate flow should be laminar
 C. heat transfer should be at steady state
D. all of the above

12. Heat transfer co-efficient equation for forced convection, Nu = 0.023 Re 0.8.
Prn, is not valid, if the value of
a) n = 0.4 is used for heating
b) n = 0.3 is used for cooling
c) Reynolds number for the flow involved is > 10000
d) Reynolds number for the flow involved is < 2100

13. Peclet number (Pe) is given by

a) Pe = Re.Pr
b) Pe = Re/Pr
c) Pe = Pr/Re
d) Pe = Nu.Re

14. Which one of the following conditions does not influence Nucleate pool
boiling?
a) Pressure
b) Liquid properties
c) Heat capacity of fluid
d) Material of heating

15. Which one of the following is the correct representation of Fritz equation
which is used to calculate bubble diameter in bubble pool boiling?
a) D = Cd β [2 σ/g (pt – pv)]½
b) D = Cd β [σ/g (pt – pv)]½
 c) D = Cd β [2 σ/g (pt – pv)]2
d) D = Cd β [2 σ/g (pt – pv)]

16. The height of the superheated layer in nucleate boiling is __________ the
diameter of the departing bubble.
a) Greater than
b) Less than
c) Equal to
d) Much greater than

17. Which one of the following statement is not correct about nucleate boiling?
a) The temperature of the surface is greater than the saturation temperature
of the liquid
b) The heat flux is greater than film boiling
c) The temperature is greater than film boiling
d) Bubbles are created by the expansion of entrapped vapour in the heating
surface

18. The increase in heat flux after the Leiden Frost Point is due to ___________
a) Radiation
b) Convection
c) Conduction
d) Flash

19. Fick’s law is given by the formula

a) N b = – D b c d C b/d x
b) N b = – 2 D b c d C b/d x
 c) N b = – 3 D b c d C b/d x
d) N b = – 4 D b c d C b/d x

20. What is the unit of diffusion coefficient?

a) m2
b) s
c) m2 s
d) m2/s

21. Consider loss of ethanol vapor by diffusion from a half-filled open test tube.
At what point in the diffusion path will the contribution of the bulk flow
term to the molar flux be maximum?
a) At the liquid-gas interface
b) In the bulk liquid
c) In the bulk gas
d) None of the mentioned

22. What is the dimension of the Schmidt number?

a) Newton
b) Meter
c) Celsius
d) It is a dimensional quantity

23. Schmidt number is given by the formula

a) 2 D/v
b) v/D
c) D/v
d) 2 v/D
24. Assume the following thermos-physical properties of air
D =0.82 * 10 -6 m2/s
v = 15.5 * 10 -6 m2/s
Find the value of Schmidt number
a) 2.89
b) 1.89
c) 3.89
d) 0.89

25. If the coolant is not in multiple-phase, and if the overall heat transfer
coefficient is constant, then the assumptions underlying the logarithmic
mean temperature difference (LMTD) __________
a) Are Valid
b) Are Invalid
c) Not all but some are valid
d) Single assumption invalid

26. If the coolant is single-phase, and if the overall heat transfer coefficient is
reasonably constant, then the formula for the area of the condenser can be
________
a) A=Q˙/UΔTLMTD
b) A=Q˙/UΔTLMTD
c) A=Q˙/UΔTLMTD
d) A=Q˙/UΔTLMTD
27. Which one of the following plot correctly represents the temperature-
enthalpy relationship of a mixture
 a)

b) c)

d)

28. Condensation process is very common in

(i) Boilers
(ii) Condensers
(iii) Evaporators
Identify the correct statements
 a) i and ii
b) ii and iii
c) i, ii and iii
d) i and iii

29. Drop wise condensation usually occurs on

a) Oily surface
b) Glazed surface
c) Smooth surface
d) Coated surface

30. For film wise condensation on a vertical plane, the film thickness δ and heat
transfer coefficient h vary with distance x from the leading edge as
a) δ decreases, h increases
b) Both δ and h increases
c) δ increases, h decreases
d) Both δ and h decreases

31. Temperature and velocity profiles are identical when the dimensionless
Prandtl number is
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

32. What is the mass flow rate of the heating steam is

Internal energy U= 500J
Area= 2m2
Temperature driving force is Ts-Tp 20oC
 Latent heat of vaporization is Hvap=1000J
a) 2Kg
b) 3Kg
c) 20Kg
d) 30Kg

33. Pick the odd one out

a) Open feed water heaters
b) Jet condensers
c) De-super heaters
d) Surface condensers

34. For laminar film condensation on a vertical plate, the velocity distribution at
a distance δ from the top edge is given by
a) p g (δ y – y/2)/σ
b) p g (δ y – y 2)/σ
c) p g (δ y – y 2/2)/σ
d) p g (δ – y 2/2)/σ

35. Condensation refers to a change from the

a) Solid to a liquid phase
b) Vapor to a liquid phase
c) Liquid to a solid phase
d) Liquid to a vapor phase
36. When evaporation takes place at the liquid-vapor interface, the heat transfer
is solely due to free convection and the film coefficient follows the relation
a) Nu = f 1 (G r) f 2 (P r)
b) Nu = 2 f 1 (G r) f 2 (P r)
c) Nu = 3 f 1 (G r) f 2 (P r)
d) Nu = 4 f 1 (G r) f 2 (P r)

37. Natural convection heat transfer coefficients over surface of a vertical pipe
and a vertical flat plate for same height. What is/are the possible reasons for
this?
(i) Same height
(ii) Both vertical
(iii) Same fluid
(iv) Same fluid flow pattern
Select the correct answer
a) iv
b) i and ii
c) i
d) iii and iv

38. The milk while boiling in an open vessel spills out because of the
___________ phenomenon.
a) Sub-cooled boiling
b) Super-cooled boiling
c) Sub-heated boiling
d) Super-heated boiling
39. Which one of the following statement is incorrect?
a) In sub-cool heating, the temperature of the heating surface is less than the
normal boiling point of the liquid
b) Nucleate boiling is promoted on a smooth surface than a rough one
c) Film boiling region is usually avoided in commercial equipment
d) The point of transition from nucleate to film boiling is known as the burn-
out point on the boiling curve

40. Why does the heat flux decrease when the temperature increases way above
the nucleate boiling point?
a) Steam bubbles no longer break away from the solid surface of the channel
b) Radiation takes over
c) Convection takes over
d) Fouling occurs