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1. What happens if the flow of water within a horizontal tube changes from laminar
to turbulent?
The pressure losses remain constant.
The pressure losses will increase.
The pressure losses will decrease.
2. Consider laminar flow of water under steady-state conditions. What happens if the
diameter of a horizontal tube smoothly increases?
The pressure will decrease and the velocity will increase.
Pressure and velocity remain constant.
Pressure and velocity will decrease.
The pressure will increase and the velocity will decrease.
5. What happens if two 5-cm-diameter spheres are falling through air at an initial
distance from each other of 50 cm?
The distance remains constant.
The distance becomes smaller.
The distance becomes longer.
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6. Consider a car moving at a velocity of 60 km/h. What happens if the car is imme-
diately accelerates to 120 km/h?
The drag force remains constant.
The drag force at 120 km/h is twice the drag at 60 km/h.
The drag force at 120 km/h is eight times bigger than the drag at 60 km/h.
No correct answer is given.
7. Plaice are bottom-living flatfish similar to flounder. At rest they constitute low,
rounded humps on smooth, sandy bottoms. What happens if the current passing
over the fish becomes stronger, i.e. higher flow velocity?
The flatfish is pressed on the ground.
The flatfish is lifted up into the current.
The flatfish remains quiescent.
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A Newtonian fluid flows around a slider valve. The geometrical data are given in the
sketch. The pressure difference between point 1 and point 2 can be measured by
Bourdon tubes.
p1 p2
v h h
d
d) Form the p –terms by combining the repeating variables with each of the re-
maining variables.
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A centrifugal pump is installed between two tanks. Both tanks are open to the atmos-
phere. The tanks are located at different levels within a building. The difference in
height is 15 m.
The total length of the 5-cm diameter stainless steel tube, which connects the pump
inlet and the pump exit with the respective tank, is 50 m.
b) Determine the power demand of the pump, in kW, if the internal efficiency of
the pump is 85%.
Given:
3
Volume flow = 100 m
V
h
kg
Density of water ρ =1,000
m³
Ns
Viscosity @ 10°C =η 1.308 × 10 −3
m²
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Consider a 0.6-cm-diameter smooth glass sphere falling through a large vertical tube
filled with a highly concentrated sugar solution.
a) Provide an equation for the drag force FD acting on the sphere, which com-
prises solely the variables
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cD =
Red
g (ρGl − ρSuSo ) ⋅ d2
v∞ =
18 ηSuSo
Given:
kg
Density of sphere: ρGl =2,500
m³
kg
Density of sugar solution: ρSuSo =
1,260
m3
kg
Viscosity of sugar solution: ηSuSo =
1.47
sm
p 3
Volume of a sphere: VSphere = d
6
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1. A filtration process is generally defined by its filtration rate. What is the general
definition of the filtration rate?
resistance
filtration rate= driving force
specific surface of the filter cake
filtration rate= cycle time
driving force
filtration rate= resistance
resistance
filtration rate= filter cake area
2. In the case of cake filtration, what happens to the filtration rate if we increase the
porosity of the filtering medium?
The filtration rate remains constant.
The filtration rate will increase.
The filtration rate will decrease.
The filtration rate will first increase and then decrease.
3. A size reduction process by a hammer mill is given. What happens to the particle
size of the feed if we increase the power demand?
The particle size can be increased.
The particle size has to be decreased.
The particle size will not change.
The particle size has to be the same as the product size.
4. A ball mill is properly operated at a given angular velocity ω. What would be nec-
essary to change in the condition of operation in order to ensure proper running of
the mill if we would increase the drum diameter D?
The angular velocity ω would have to be increased too.
The angular velocity ω would have to be decreased.
The diameter d of the balls would have to be decreased.
There is no need for any change since the operation mode is independent
from the drum diameter D.
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a) Complete the given table below by calculating the class width, the cumulative un-
dersize (residue) amounts and the cumulative oversize (pass through) amounts
for each sieve.
b) What is the amount of particles (in g) that would pass a 0.3 mm screen? Deter-
mine with the help of your calculated numbers and an appropriate PSD represen-
tation.
Note: Do not interpolate. Instead, use the provided diagram on the next page. Do
not change the axis labels.
Mesh
Sieve Class width Residue
size 𝒙𝒙𝒊𝒊 𝑹𝑹(𝒙𝒙) [%] 𝑫𝑫(𝒙𝒙) [%]
# ∆𝒙𝒙𝒊𝒊 [mm] ∆𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒊 [g]
[mm]
1 0.71 13.9
2 0.5 71.1
3 0.355 120.1
4 0.25 116.7
5 0.18 76.3
6 0.125 50.0
7 0.071 34.6
8 0.045 10.3
Pan 0 7.0
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A cone crusher is fed with soft limestone having particles of 2 cm median equivalent
diameter and discharges a product consisting of particles of 0.5 cm median equiva-
lent diameter. The equipment operates at a capacity of 1.2 × 104 kg/h consuming a
power of 10 hp.
a) If the requirements of the process demand a finer size of the product (0.4 cm of
median equivalent diameter) decreasing the capacity to 1.0 × 104 kg/h, calculate
the theoretical power consumption in kW under the new conditions. For this,
choose an appropriate calculation model.
1 hp = 0.7457 kW
b) While keeping the product size at 0.4 cm of median equivalent diameter, deter-
mine with the help of the following diagram the required feed size (in mm) if crush-
ing would operate at the original capacity and consume the original power.
kWh
50
t
cone crusher pebble mill
jaw breaker hammer mill
impact mill
roll crusher
10
Specific power demand
WZ
m
xα
1 n=
xω
0,5
0,1 1
0,1 0,5 1 5 10 50 100 500
cm
nn
xx´
ω
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Formulary „Fundamentals of Process Engineering”