Practice Test: Question Set - 13
1. Pyrolysis of kerosene or natural gasoline is done to produce mainly the
- (A) Olefins and aromatics
- (B) Lighter paraffins
- (C) Stabilized gasoline
- (D) Diesel
2. A good lubricant should have high
- (A) Viscosity index
- (B) Volatility
- (C) Pour point
- (D) None of these
3. Waxes present in petroleum products
- (A) Can be separated out by distillation
- (B) Are not soluble in them
- (C) Crystallize out at low temperature
- (D) Decrease their viscosity
4. Name the hydrocarbon having the poorest oxidation stability.
- (A) Naphthene
- (B) Olefin
- (C) Paraffin
- (D) Aromatics
5. The terminology used for the bottom most product from the vacuum crude distillation unit is
- (A) Residual crude
- (B) Residuum
- (C) Reduced crude
- (D) Petrolatum
6. Pick out the additive property of lube oil out of following.
- (A) °API gravity
- (B) Specific gravity
- (C) Viscosity
- (D) Flashpoint
7. Gasoline yield in catalytic reforming of naphtha may be about __________ percent by weight.
- (A) 85
- (B) 65
- (C) 50
- (D) 98
8. Phenols are added in gasoline to
- (A) Improve the octane number
- (B) Act as an antioxidant
- (C) Reduce its viscosity
- (D) Increase its pour point
9. Percentage of straight run gasoline in a typical crude oil may be around
- (A) 6
- (B) 18
- (C) 38
- (D) 52
10. Paraffin base crude oil as compared to asphalt base crude gives
- (A) Higher yield of straight run gasoline
- (B) Higher octane number gasoline
- (C) Lower viscosity index lube oil
- (D) Poorer yield of lube oil
11. The main reaction in reforming is the
- (A) Dehydrogenation of naphthenes
- (B) Hydrogenation of naphthenes
- (C) Hydrocracking of paraffins
- (D) Saturation of olefins
12. Petrolatum is
- (A) Same as petroleum ether
- (B) Petroleum coke
- (C) A mixture of microcrystalline wax in viscous
hydrocarbon liquids
- (D) None of these
13. Clay treatment of petroleum products
- (A) Decolorizes & stabilizes cracked gasoline
- (B) Desulphurise straight run gasoline &
kerosene
- (C) Adsorb arsenic from feedstock to catalytic
reforming
- (D) All (a), (b) & (c)
14. Flash point of an oil gives an idea of the
- (A) Nature of boiling point diagram of the system
- (B) Amount of low boiling fraction present
- (C) Explosion hazards
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
15. Aniline point is a property of the
- (A) Diesel
- (B) LPG
- (C) Naphtha
- (D) Gasoline
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