Chemical Engineering Mcqs

Electric process as compared to wet process (for the manufacture of phosphoric acid) ?

(A) Can use only high grade phosphate rock

(B) Is used less frequently

(C) Produces a valuable by-product called gypsum

(D) Is weak acid process

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Rock phosphate constitutes mainly of___________________?

(A) Fluorapatite

(B) Di-calcium phosphate

(C) Mono-calcium phosphate

(D) Di-ammonium phosphate

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Iron is not used alone as a catalyst in ammonia synthesis, because___________________?

(A) Its activity declines rapidly, if heated to above 520°C

(B) It decomposes ammonia

(C) It gets oxidised above 500°C

(D) None of these

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Phosphoric acid is produced in wet process from phosphate rock and____________________?

(A) Dilute H2SO4

(B) Concentrated H2SO4

(C) Concentrated NHO3

(D) Concentrated HCl

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Out of the following, N2 content is minimum in_____________________?

(A) Urea

(B) Ammonium nitrate

(C) Ammonium sulphate

(D) Ammonium chloride

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Ammonium sulphate can be produced by reacting gypsum with____________________?

(A) Ammonia

(B) Ammonium carbonate

(C) Nitric acid

(D) None of these

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Reaction of nitric acid and sulphuric acid with phosphate rock produces_________________?

(A) Nitrophosphate

(B) Diammonium phosphate

(C) Tricresyl phosphate

(D) Tributyl phosphate

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Red phosphorous is changed into white phosphorous by______________________?

(A) Heating in presence of light

(B) Melting under pressure

(C) Vaporisation followed by condensation

(D) None of these

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NPK fertiliser is a _______________ fertiliser?

(A) Complex

(B) Mixed

(C) Nitrogenous

(D) Phosphatic

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