Process Equipment and Plant Design
Which of the following factors determine the amount of entrainment in a distillation column?

Depth of liquid above the bubble cap slots
All of these
Vapour velocity in the volume between the plates
Plate spacing

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
A certain pressure vessel manufacturer avoids doing reinforcements calculations for openings by always providing a reinforcing pad extending upto double the diameter of the opening and of the same material and thickness as that of the shell wall. If area compensation is accepted as a code guideline, his approach leads to safe design

Only if the opening is on a vertical cylinderical vessel
Irrespective of the shape of the vessel
Only if the opening is on spherical vessel
Only if the opening is on a horizontal cylinderical vessel

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

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