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Multiple Choice Laching

The document contains 15 multiple choice questions, 17 short answer questions, and 15 descriptive questions regarding leaching operations and equipment. The questions cover topics like types of leaching equipment (e.g. Bollman extractor), factors that affect leaching rate, industrial applications of leaching (e.g. sugar from sugar beets), and equilibrium concepts in leaching.

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Multiple Choice Laching

The document contains 15 multiple choice questions, 17 short answer questions, and 15 descriptive questions regarding leaching operations and equipment. The questions cover topics like types of leaching equipment (e.g. Bollman extractor), factors that affect leaching rate, industrial applications of leaching (e.g. sugar from sugar beets), and equilibrium concepts in leaching.

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Multiple choice questions

1.The Bollman extractor


(a) is a static bed leaching equipment
(b) is a centrifugal extractor
(c) is used for extraction of oil from oil seeds
(d) employs only counter-current leaching
2. Rate of leaching increases with increasing
(a) temperature (b) pressure
(c) viscosity of solvent (d) size of the solid
3. Other conditions remaining the same, if the fractional retention of solution in the
underflow increases then the number of ideal stages required for a counter-current washing
operation
(a) increases
(b) decreases
(c) remains the same
(d) cannot be determined
4. Which of the following operations does not involve leaching?
(a) dissolving gold from its ores
(b) dissolving sugar from sugar beat
(c) removing nicotine from its aqueous solution by kerosene
(d) dissolving pharmaceutical products from bark
5. Which of the following factors does not affect stage efficiency in a leaching operation?
(a) time of contact between the solid and the solvent
(b) rate of diffusion of the solute from solid to liquid
(c) size of the solid
(d) vapour pressure of the solution
6. Leaching of sugar from sugar beat is done by
(a) dilute sulphuric acid
(b) hot water
(c) lime water
(d) hexane
7. Sulphuric acid solvent is recommend for the extraction of
(a) copper from roasted copper ore
(b) gold from its ore
(c) oil from peanut cake
(d) coffee from roasted coffee beans

8.Higher temperature increases the rate of extraction in solid-liquid system due to


(a) increased liquid viscosity and decreased diffusivity
(b) increased liquid viscosity and increased diffusivity
(c) decreased liquid viscosity and decreased diffusivity
(d) decreased liquid viscosity and increased diffusivity
9. If the solute concentrations on solid-free basis in the overflow and underflow are equal, the
tie lines are
(a) vertical (b) inclined
(c) horizontal (d) of varying slopes
10. Bollman extractor will you recommend for the extraction of
(a) oil from oil-seed
(b) sugar from sugar beat
(c) pharmaceutical from plant leaves
(d) copper from roasted copper ore

11. Wood ash leaching for alkali is known as ________


a) Lixivation
b) Lixartion
c) Lixation
d) None of the mentioned

12. Refers to the operation where the solvent at its boiling is used
a) Boiling solvent
b) Decoction
c) Leaching
d) None of the mentioned

13.Leaching is generally used for cement industries


a) True
b) False

14.In order to reduce the time required for the removing solute the sugar beets are cut
into slices known as
a) Cossettes
b) Coset
c) Consot
d) All of the mentioned

15.In which of the following equipment does extraction occur by the percolation process

a. Bollman extractor b. Moving belt extractor c. Panchuka extactor

Short answer questions

1. How to prepare solids for leaching


2. What is percolation explain its significance
3. Define leaching, what is Lixiviation
4. Define decoction and elution
5. Write any two industrial applications of leaching
6. What do you mean by in-situ leaching
7. What is heap leaching
8. What are different factors that affect leaching
9. Name different types of leaching operation that are carried out under steady state
10. Name different types of leaching operation that are carried out under unsteady state
11. Name different types of leaching equipment that are used for leaching of vegetable
seeds
12. In what situations the underflow contains more solute than overflow
13. Draw the equilibrium for leaching ( variable underflow and N ≠ 0 in overflow )
14. Draw the equilibrium for leaching ( Constant underflow and N = 0 in overflow )
15. Draw the equilibrium for leaching ( variable underflow, N ≠ 0 in overflow and
limited solubility )
16. Explain “variable underflow”
17. Explain “constant underflow”
18. What are full and half miscella used in leaching equipments

Descriptive questions

1. Explain counter current multiple contact Shanks system for leaching


2. What are the equipments used for leaching vegetable oil, explain any one in detail
3. Illustrate various types of equilibrium curves for leaching
4. With the help of neat sketch explain the working of Bollman extractor
5. Write the material balance construction of graph for single stage leaching operation
6. Write the material balance construction of graph for multistage stage crosscurrent
leaching operation
7. Write the material balance construction of graph for multistage stage counter current
leaching operation
8. What are the industrial applications of leaching and list out the factors affecting the
leaching operation
9. Explain the construction and working of percolation tank for leaching operation
10. Explain the features of percolation and agitation tanks, explain any one unsteady state
leaching method
11. Explain the construction and working of Continuous counter current decantation
12. Explain the construction and working of Rotocel extractor
13. Explain the construction and working of Continuous horizontal filter
14. Explain the factors affecting the leaching operation in detail
15. Write the preparation of solids for leaching operation with examples

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