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Question:
What is the importance of reflux?

Answer:
Reflux on overhead system controls temperature and product purity


Question:
Batch distillation

Answer:
Once drum is filled, process is stopped and preparation for next batch is started.


Question:
Relationship between boiling points and pressure

Answer:
Pressure directly affects boiling point. If pressure
Increases or decreases the boiling point does the same.


Question:
What is volatility?

Answer:
how easily a liquid evaporates


Question:
High boiler and low boiler

Answer:
High boilers are at bottom of tower, and low boilers are at top of tower


Question:
" Packed columns "

Answer:
facilitate vapor liquid contact

, Question:
Azeotrope

Answer:
the boiling points of the mixtures are too close together to seperate


Question:
Refrigeration

Answer:
describes a process to transfer heat energy at a process condition below atmospheric
temperature, removes heat energy. absorption of heat energy


Question:
Most common used principal to absorb heat energy

Answer:
is to cause a phase change in a refrigerant in heat exchange equipment.


Question:
Refrigerant

Answer:
material with boiling and condensing point temperatures at reasonable pressures that are
used in mechanical, refrigeration facilities


Question:
Mechanical Refrigerant

Answer:
systems where the refrigerant is evaporated (absorbs heat energy) , compressed,
condensed, (discharges heat energy), and recycled back into evaporation.


Question:
Basic technology at work in refrigeration

Answer:
the conversion of a substance from a liquid to a vapor by the addition of latent heat of
vaporization.

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