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?

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

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
In a shell and tube heat exchanger, the clearance of the tube is generally

More in case of triangular pitch as compared to the square pitch tube layout
Equal to the tube diameter
More than the tube diameter
Not less than one-fourth of the tube diameter or 3/16"

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