Engineering Questions with Answers - Multiple Choice Questions
Unit Processes MCQ’s – Effects of Alkylation
1 - Question
What is suitable for the construction of alkylating equipment?
a) Wood
b) Iron
c) Steel
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Steel is suitable for the construction of alkylating equipment, even in the presence of the strong acid catalysts, as their corrosive effect is greatly lessened by the formation of esters as catalytic intermediate products
2 - Question
How does corrosion of apparatus takes place?
a) Agent used in alkylation
b) Catalyst used
c) Hydrogen halides formed
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Corrosion may be caused by the catalyst used in the alkylation or by the hydrogen halides formed by hydrolysis of alkyl halides. However, there are many cases in which the agents used in alkylation are corrosive.
3 - Question
What is meant by rectification procedure?
a) Distillation column
b) Recovery unit
c) Reactor
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Recovery of Alkylated Product. Wherever possible, rectification furnishes the most convenient and cheapest procedure. This technique is used extensively in the petroleum field.
4 - Question
Alkylation often causes very poisonous compounds to lose this effect.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: Alkylation often causes very poisonous compounds to lose this effect, e.g., the nitriles (RCN) and isonitriles (R-N C) are poisonous only when HCN is split off.
5 - Question
The substitution of which group increases the antiseptic action?
a) Methyl
b) Ethyl
c) Aromatic
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Phenol was the first antiseptic used, and a thorough study of its derivatives has been made. The substitution of a methyl group for the hydrogen in the ring of phenol, forming the cresols, increases the antiseptic action.
6 - Question
Alkyl aryl can be sulphonated to form what?
a) Soaps
b) Foam
c) Detergents
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Alkyl aryl is used to designate the predominantly important class of aliphatic aromatic organic compounds which are sulfonated to manufacture detergents.
7 - Question
‘Alkylate’ is manufactured for which industry?
a) Food
b) Petroleum
c) Both food and petroleum
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Alkylate for the Petroleum Industry. The manufacture of the so-called “alkylate” has furnished an important constituent of high-quality motor and aviation fuels.
8 - Question
The ‘thermal alkylation’ takes place in which phase?
a) Liquid
b) Vapour
c) Solid
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: The ‘thermal alkylation’ takes place in vapour phase and is used to alkylate in petroleum industry.
9 - Question
How does high temperature affects the quality of alkylate?
a) Lowers
b) Moderate
c) Higher
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: A high temperature lowers the quality of alkylate, but too high or too low a temperature results in excess organic fluoride formation. A temperature of 27°C results in alkylate about one octane unit better than that obtained at 46°C.
10 - Question
Cumene has been an important constituent of food industry.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: Cumene has long been an important constituent of aviation and high-quality motor fuels.
11 - Question
What is Acetophenetidine?
a) Antipyretic
b) Analgesic
c) Antipyretic & Analgesic
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Acetophenetidine is an important analgesic and antipyretic that has attained widespread use in medicine.
12 - Question
Anisole is produced by the action of what on phenol?
a) Aniline
b) Oxime
c) Hydrogen sulphide
d) Methyl chloride
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Explanation: Anisole is used directly in perfumery and is an intermediate for further synthesis. It is prepared by the action of methyl chloride or of dimethyl sulphate on phenol.
13 - Question
‘Ethylene glycol ethyl ether’ contains which of the following group?
a) Alcoholic
b) Hydrocarbon
c) Ether group
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Ethylene glycol ethyl ether belongs to three major chemical families: it contains an alcoholic group (-OH), a hydrocarbon group, (-CH2-CH2) and an ether group (-CH2-OC2H5) and it is not surprising that this compound and its homologues have proved to be useful solvents.
14 - Question
Diethylamine finds extensive use in what?
a) Petroleum industry
b) As dispersing agent
c) As catalyst
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Diethylamine finds extensive use in the preparation of wetting and dispersing agents and enters into many syntheses.
15 - Question
Dimethylaniline is widely used as what?
a) Rubber
b) Dyes
c) Explosives
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: Dimethylaniline is widely used as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes, rubber accelerators, explosives, and some medical products. Such important dyes as auramine, malachite green, methyl violet, crystal violet, and methylene blue are derived from dimethylaniline.