Petroleum Refinery Engineering
Higher boiling fractions like atmospheric residue is distilled under vacuum at low temperature because at high temperature, there is a tendency of the predominance of

Coking
Gum formation
Thermal cracking
Discoloration

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Petroleum Refinery Engineering
Pick out the wrong statement about the smoking tendency of various hydrocarbon constituents of kerosene.

Smoking tendency of aromatics decreases with increase in its molecular weight
Smoking tendency of hydrocarbons increases in the order : paraffins → isoparaffins → naphthenes → aromatics
Smoking tendency of paraffins increases with decrease in its molecular weight
Smoking tendency of naphthenes decreases with its increasing molecular weight & also on addition of double bond

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