GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 Shift 1 Solved Paper

An electrostatic precipitator (ESP) with 5600 m² of collector plate area is 96 percent efficient in treating 185 m³/s of flue gas from a 200 MW thermal power plant. It was found that in order to achieve 97 percent efficiency, the collector plate area should be 6100 m². In order to increase the efficiency to 99 percent, the ESP collector plate area (expressed in m²) would be _____