GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2021 Shift 1 Solved Paper

A baghouse filter has to treat 12 m³/s of waste gas continuously. The baghouse to be divided into 5 sections of equal cloth area such that one section can be shut down for cleaning and/or repairing. while the other 4 section continue to operate. An air- to - cloth of 6.0 m³/min-m² cloth will provide sufficient treatment to the gas. The individual bags are of 32 cm in diameter and 5 m in length. The total number of bags (in integer) required in the baghouse is ______.