GATE Fluid Mechanics and Mechanical Operations: Settling, centrifuges, cyclones, thickening, filtration, agitation and mixing – Previous Year Questions
6 GATE previous year questions on Settling, centrifuges, cyclones, thickening, filtration, agitation and mixing (Fluid Mechanics and Mechanical Operations, Chemical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2022 CH Q53 – In a constant-rate cake filtration operation, the collected filtrate volumes are 120 m3 and 240 m3 at 1 min and 2 min, respectively. Assume the cake…
- GATE 2023 CH Q20 – For a packed-bed comprising of uniform-sized spherical particles of diameter D p, the pressure drop across the bed is given by the Kozeny-Carman…
- GATE 2023 CH Q53 – A large tank is filled with water (density = 1 g cm-3) upto a height of 5 m. A 100 µm diameter solid spherical particle (density = 0.8 g cm-3) is…
- GATE 2024 CH Q58 – A metallic spherical particle of density 7001 kg m-3 and diameter 1 mm is settling steadily due to gravity in a stagnant gas of density 1 kg m-3 and…
- GATE 2025 CH Q49 – A leaf filter is operated at 1 atm (gauge). The volume of filtrate collected (V in m3) is related with the volumetric flow rate of the filtrate (q in…
- GATE 2026 CH Q49 – Laboratory filtration is conducted at constant pressure drop of 200 kPa on a slurry of CaCO 3 in water at room temperature. The time taken to collect…