Process Equipment and Plant Design
In a shell and tube heat exchanger, triangular pitch arrangement as compared to square pitch arrangement

Facilitates easier shell side cleaning; hence is more suitable for handling high dirt factor shell side fluid
Can accomodate less number of tubes for a given shell diameter
Results in higher shell side pressure drop
Creates relatively lower turbulence on the shell side resulting in lower shell side heat transfer co-efficient

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
Which of the following is not a valid assumption in continuous binary distillation for calculating the number of equilibrium stages by Mc-Cabe-Thiele's method?

Heat of mixing of normal liquid is assumed to be zero
Reflux is not a saturated liquid
Sensible heat changes for vapour & liquid are negligibly small
Molar latent heat of the two components are equal

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to the design of a basket type evaporator.

It is used for high viscosity liquor having large rate of scaling
There is no central downtake
Downtake is formed by the annular space between the bundle and the shell
The tube bundle is suspended on bracket

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