Process Equipment and Plant Design
Pick out the wrong statement about the design of seive plate column and the bubble cap column.

The downcomer design and the residence time in the downcomer is almost same for seive plate and bubble cap columns
Weir height in case of a bubble cap plate ranges from 50 to 150 mm and is higher than the seive plate
Weir length for a bubble cap plate is the same as that for the seive plate
Weir height for a bubble cap plate column is the same as that for a seive plate column

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
Weep holes provided in the plates of a distillation column

Must be large enough (usually 1/4" to 5/8" dia) to prevent plugging but should not deliver excessive amount of fluid during operation
All of these
Are normally located near the overflow weir so that any delivery of liquid during operation follows approximately the same path as the overflow fluid
Facilitate draining out liquid from a tray when the unit is not in operation

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
The centre to centre distance between two consecutive baffles in a shell and tube heat exchanger is called the baffle pitch or baffle spacing, which is more than 1/5th the I.D. of the shell. Which of the following is not a function of the baffles?

To increase the tube side heat transfer co-efficient by inducing turbulence
To increase the residence time of shell side fluid
To provide support to the tube bundle
To reduce the induced vibration in the tubes

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