Question

Boil Up ratio should be?

(a) Minimum

(b) Maximum

(c) Optimum

(d) Can’t specified

This question was posed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Problems When Setting Simulation Input topic in division Rigorous Distillation Calculations of Distillation Design

Answer 1

Correct option is (b) Maximum

The explanation: Boil Up ratio should be Maximum, as the boil up ratio increases the difficulty of separation gets increases as they are directly proportional.