Employment Test for Chemical Process Engineering Position

The Purpose for our pre-employment test is to initially test your ability, if you are suitable for the position or not. Furthermore, this test gives Addax Petroleum the Platform to determine if a selected candidate requires operational orientation/training or probably requires a further face to face oral interview.

Time Limit: 5 working days INSTRUCTION

Maximum Mark: 100

1. COMPLETED ANSWERS MUST BE SUBMITTED WITHIN 5 WORKING DAYS FROM THE DAY OF RECEIPT OF THIS TEST QUESTION. 2. TICK CLEARLY THE TEXT BOOKLET OPTION A, B, C OR D AS THE CASE MAY BE IN THE APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE ANSWER SHEET. 3. You have to enter your test number in the box provided 4. This test booklet contains 10(item) Question. Each item comprises of four options (answers). You will select the option which you want to mark in the answer sheet. In case you feel that there are more than one correct answer in the four options, mark the answer which you consider the best. In any case choose only one option. 5. All questions carry equal marks 6. Penalty for wrong answers: THERE WILL BE PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS MARKED BY CANDIDATES (i) There are four alternatives for the answered to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by candidate, one-third (0-33) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. (ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it would be treated as a wrong answer. Even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be the same penalty as above to that question. (iii) If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer was given by the candidate; there will be no penalty for that question.

1. Which of the following is the dynamic characteristics of an instrument ? A. Reproducibility B. Sensitivity C. Dead zone D. Fidelity

2. High __________ is an undesirable property for a good refrigerant. A. specific heat B. latent heat of vaporisation C. viscosity D. specific vapor volume 3. Which of the following relates the emf. generated in a single homogeneous wire to the temperature difference ? A. Peltier effect B. Thomson effect C. Seebeck effect D. none of these 4. Maximum work that could be secured by expanding the gas over a given pressure range is the __________ work. A. isothermal B. adiabatic C. isentropic D. none of these 5. Which of the following is an undesirable dynamic characteristic of an instrument ? A. Reproducibility B. Dead zone C. Time lag D. Static error 6. The softness or hardness of a grinding wheel depends upon the type & amount of bonding material used. For general purpose cutter grinding __________ grinding wheel is normally used. A. hard B. soft

C. silicon carbide D. aluminium oxide

7. The operation of a rotameter is based on A. variable flow area. B. rotation of a turbine. C. pressure drop across a nozzle. D. pressure at a stagnation point.

8. The temperature of tempering oil baths maintained at 400C during heat treatment of steel is measured by a/an __________ thermocouple. A. chromel-alumel B. iron-constantan C. platinum-platinum/rhodium D. none of these. 9. Which of the following temperature measuring instruments need not touch the object whose temperature is being measured ? A. Radiation/infrared pyrometer B. Filled system thermometer C. Mercury in glass thermometer D. Thermo electric pyrometer 10. Liquid/petroleum fuel storage tanks are built underground (as in case of petrol pumps), when the storage capacity is less than __________ kilolitres. A. 20 B. 30 C. 45 D. 85