Process Equipment and Plant Design
Which tube arrangement in a heat exchanger would facilitate highest heat transfer rate?

Diagonal square pitch
Triangular pitch
Heat transfer rate is independent of tube arrangement
Square pitch

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Process Equipment and Plant Design
Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to the comparative evaluation of performance of the packed tower and the plate tower.

In operations involving large temperature changes. (e.g. distillation), plate towers are preferred over packed towers as the packing may be crushed due to large temperature changes
Plate tower is preferred over packed tower, if the operation involves liquids containing dispersed solids
Plate tower is perferred, if interstage cooling is required to remove heats of reaction or solution
The total weight of a dry plate tower is usually much more than that of a dry packed tower designed for the same duty

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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

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

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