Chemical Process Calculation Questions and Answers – Bypass and Purge

This set of Chemical Process Calculation Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Bypass and Purge”.

1. A ____________ stream is one that skips one or more stages of the process and goes directly to another downstream stage.
a) Recycle
b) Purge
c) Bypass
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c

Explanation: A Bypass stream is one that skips one or more stages of the process and goes directly to another downstream stage.

2. A ___________ stream is a stream bled off from the process to remove an accumulation of inerts or unwanted material.
a) Recycle
b) Purge
c) Bypass
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: A Purge stream is a stream bled off from the process to remove an accumulation of inerts or unwanted material.
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3-4. For the given process
Recycle, Bypass and Purge calculations

3. What is A in the process?
a) Recycle
b) Purge
c) Bypass
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: Material that leaves a process unit that is the downstream and is returned to the same unit is called recycle.

4. What is B in the process?
a) Recycle
b) Purge
c) Bypass
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: A Purge stream is a stream bled off from the process to remove an accumulation of inerts or unwanted material.

5. For the given process, A is
A Bypass stream
a) Recycle
b) Purge
c) Bypass
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: A Bypass stream is one that skips one or more stages of the process and goes directly to another downstream stage.
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6. A bypass stream does pass through __________
a) Mixer
b) Process
c) Separator
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: A bypass stream directly goes from divider to separator skipping the process.

7. For the given process, how many recycle streams are there
Recycle stream in material that leaves a process unit that is the downstream
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
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Answer: a
Explanation: Material that leaves a process unit that is the downstream and is returned to the same unit is called recycle.
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8. A bypass stream can be used to control the composition of a final exit stream. The statement is
a) True
b) False
c) Always False
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: A bypass stream can be used to control the composition of a final exit stream from a unit by mixing the bypass stream and the unit exit stream in suitable proportion to obtain the desired final composition.

9. Purge stream comes from?
a) Feed stream
b) Product stream
c) Recycle stream
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: Purge stream is the removal of unwanted material from the recycle stream.

10. Process simulators are used for the activities like process design, process analysis.
The above given statement is
a) Correct
b) Incorrect
c) Depends on the process
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: Process simulation is a model-based representation of chemical, physical, biological, and other technical processes and unit operations in software.

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