Process Equipment and Plant Design
Smoker's equation for the calculation of number of equilibrium stages in a continuous binary distillation column is used, when the

Number of equilibrium stages in only stripping section is to be calculated
Number of equilibrium stages required is likely to be very small
Feed is not at its bubble point
Relative volatility is close to one (e.g., separation of close boiling isomers)

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to the design of a basket type evaporator.

It is used for high viscosity liquor having large rate of scaling
The tube bundle is suspended on bracket
Downtake is formed by the annular space between the bundle and the shell
There is no central downtake

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
Pick out the wrong statement about the design of seive plate column and the bubble cap column.

The downcomer design and the residence time in the downcomer is almost same for seive plate and bubble cap columns
Weir height for a bubble cap plate column is the same as that for a seive plate column
Weir height in case of a bubble cap plate ranges from 50 to 150 mm and is higher than the seive plate
Weir length for a bubble cap plate is the same as that for the seive plate

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