2497. Crude oil is subjected to vacuum distillation in the last stage, because

high boiling point products like heavy fuel oil & lubricating oils are heat sensitive and may decompose.
lighter/low boiling products are prone to thermal decomposition.
high purity products can be obtained thereby.
none of these.
✅ The correct answer is option A.

2500. It is desired to concentrate a 20% salt solution (20 kg of salt in 100 kg of solution) to a 30% salt solution in an evaporator. Consider a feed of 300 kg/min at 30°C. The boiling point of the solution is 110°C, the latent heat of vaporisation is 2100 kJ/kg and the specific heat of the solution is 4 kJ/kg.K. The rate at which the heat has to be supplied in (kJ/min) to the evaporator is

3.06 x l0⁵
6.12 x 10⁵
7.24 x 10⁵
9.08 x 10⁵
✅ The correct answer is option A.