L&T Interview Questions

L&T Interview Questions
These interviews are compiled by Chirag Jain (LinkedIn). Except for my interview, I claim no
ownership on the others and they are compiled here by the due permissions of the anonymous owners.
Interview 1
Name: Chirag Jain

Mode of Selection: Campus Placement (Online)
Institute: Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology
Discipline: Chemical Engineering
Result: Selected
The interview was in online mode which was conducted after an Aptitude round which was about 2 hours long and had
basic English, Logical, and Arithmetic reasoning questions. My Interview lasted for about 20 minutes including the
Extempore part. Following are the interview questions,
HR Questions
1) Have you faced any failures?

(After going through my Academic Record the interviewer felt I haven’t faced any)
2) What did you learn from those failures?
3) Tell me about your family background. (Parents, Siblings)
4) Will you be able to relocate to offshore/remote locations?
5) Since you have an excellent academic record will you go for a Master's/PhD?
Technical
6) You have mentioned vessel sizing in your Internship, what are the criteria for selecting a vertical or a horizontal
vessel?
7) How to calculate pressure drop in a 2-phase mixture?
8) Walk me through the basic steps of Aspen HYSYS.
9) What is a base method?
10) Suppose I have a mixture of gases what base method should be used?
11) Should I use Peng Robinson if the gases are Ideal?
12) When do we go for countercurrent vs co-current operation in the heat exchanger?
13) What is heat duty?
14) What trays do you know in distillation?

15) What are the methods for the Calculation of an Ideal Tray?
16) Other than McCabe Thiele is there any other method that you have heard of?
17) In what type of Distillation is the relative volatility 1?
18) What can we do to increase NPSH?
19) Is NPSH related to Discharge Pressure?
20) When do we use Pumps in Series and Parallel?
Extempore
(Thinking Time: 1 Minute)
Topic: Fall of Facebook
(Speaking Time: 2 minutes)
Interview 2
HR+ Technical Mixed
1) Please introduce yourself.
2) What is NPSH (asked from Vocational Training/Internship)
3) How do we allocate fluids in a shell & tube heat exchanger?
4) What is the basis for separation in a distillation column?
5) What is relative volatility?
6) Does distillation occur when relative volatility is less than 1?
7) What are Azeotropes?
8) How do you separate Azeotropes?
9) What is Azeotropic Distillation?
Extempore
Topic: Is cricket an overrated sport?

Interview 3
1) Can you tell the difference between Unit operations and Unit Processes?
2) What is CDU? Explain its working principle.
3) What is VDU? Explain Its working principle.
4) How do we remove water from crude oil?
5) What is a desalter? Explain its working principle.
6) Which de-emulsifier do we use in a desalter?
7) What is ETP and why do we use it?
8) What are the types of equipment in ETP?
9) Where do we use treated water from ETP?
10) Are you willing to relocate?
11) What is your favorite field for the future?
Extempore Topic: Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Education.
Interview 4
1) What is the Fouling factor?
2) What is the Correction factor?
3) What factors affect the Overall heat transfer coefficient?
4) Explain the design of the Heat Exchanger by Kerns method.
5) What is the mass transfer coefficient?
6) What do you know about Finn-type heat exchangers?
Extempore Topic: Was Demonization a Good Step?
Interview 5
1) Tell me about yourself.
2) Describe Nota
3) Do you have any internship experience?
4) What is Azeotropic distillation?
5) What is Raoult's law?
6) What is an Azeotrope?
7) What are the different types of Valves you have come across?
8) Types of steam and its quantity
9) How do you calculate horsepower?
10) Types of Agitators?
11) What dimensions fewer numbers are used in mixing?
12) Types of pumps?
13) For high viscous fluids which pump should we select?
14) How do you calculate the friction factor?
15) How do you calculate head?
16) What is an efficiency of a pump?
17) Which pump has high efficiency?
The below Interviews are not detailed and not the all questions asked in each of them are listed so don’t think the
questions asked are less, they are just not complete.
Interview 6
1) What is your favorite subject?
2) How do you design a scrubber?
3) Questions about extra-curricular activities.
4) How do you calculate the heat transfer coefficient?
5) What are the types of heat exchangers?
6) What are the parameters for designing heat exchangers?

7) Gr (Grashof Number) [Definition]
8) What is Forced Convection?
Extempore Topic: Digital Payments
Interview 7
1) Discussion about cricket
2) Design steps for heat exchanger.
3) Pumps classification
4) Tell me about L & T
5) Who is your role model and Why?
6) What are the books written by him?
7) What is PFR (Plug Flow Reactor)
Extempore Topic: Child Labour
Interview 8
1) What is LMTD?
2) On which side do we have to send corrosive fluid in the shell and tube HE?
3) What is NPSH?
4) What are Pumps, their types, principles and applications?
5) What is Cavitation?
6) Dimensionless numbers
7) Types of Heat Exchangers and their Applications.
8) In the pasteurization of milk, which type of HE is used?
9) How will you balance work and personal life
10) Types of distillation
11) Azeotropic distillation
12) What is reflux?
13) How to calculate theoretical plates?
14) What type of heat exchangers do you know?
15) What is CSTR?
16) Driving force for mass transfer heat transfer.

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Name: Chirag Jain

1) Have you faced any failures?

2) What did you learn from those failures?

3) Tell me about your family background. (Parents, Siblings)

4) Will you be able to relocate to offshore/remote locations?

7) How to calculate pressure drop in a 2-phase mixture?

8) Walk me through the basic steps of Aspen HYSYS.

9) What is a base method?

11) Should I use Peng Robinson if the gases are Ideal?

12) When do we go for countercurrent vs co-current operation in the heat exchanger?

13) What is heat duty?

14) What trays do you know in distillation?

17) In what type of Distillation is the relative volatility 1?

18) What can we do to increase NPSH?

19) Is NPSH related to Discharge Pressure?

20) When do we use Pumps in Series and Parallel?

1) Please introduce yourself.

2) What is NPSH (asked from Vocational Training/Internship)

3) How do we allocate fluids in a shell & tube heat exchanger?

4) What is the basis for separation in a distillation column?

5) What is relative volatility?

6) Does distillation occur when relative volatility is less than 1?

7) What are Azeotropes?

8) How do you separate Azeotropes?

9) What is Azeotropic Distillation?

Topic: Is cricket an overrated sport?

2) What is CDU? Explain its working principle.

3) What is VDU? Explain Its working principle.

4) How do we remove water from crude oil?

5) What is a desalter? Explain its working principle.

6) Which de-emulsifier do we use in a desalter?

7) What is ETP and why do we use it?

8) What are the types of equipment in ETP?

9) Where do we use treated water from ETP?

10) Are you willing to relocate?

11) What is your favorite field for the future?

Extempore Topic: Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Education.

2) What is the Correction factor?

3) What factors affect the Overall heat transfer coefficient?

4) Explain the design of the Heat Exchanger by Kerns method.

5) What is the mass transfer coefficient?

6) What do you know about Finn-type heat exchangers?

Extempore Topic: Was Demonization a Good Step?

4) What is Azeotropic distillation?

5) What is Raoult's law?

8) Types of steam and its quantity

9) How do you calculate horsepower?

10) Types of Agitators?

11) What dimensions fewer numbers are used in mixing?

12) Types of pumps?

13) For high viscous fluids which pump should we select?

14) How do you calculate the friction factor?

15) How do you calculate head?

16) What is an efficiency of a pump?

17) Which pump has high efficiency?

2) How do you design a scrubber?

3) Questions about extra-curricular activities.

4) How do you calculate the heat transfer coefficient?

5) What are the types of heat exchangers?