Both the statements are true.

Distillation is not used very widely in the food industry. Steam distillation can be done when the volatile component is not miscible in water.

Evaporation is considered as a pure heat transfer operation. After evaporation, the solvent is left behind.

All the mentioned factors are important criteria for the formation of crystals.

All of the mentioned factors are a genuine criterion for the selection of a filter press.

All the above mentioned reasons relevant to the question are true.

Pressure leaf filter press offers a maximum pressure drop.

Resistance is inversely proportional to the inter-facial area. The inter-facial area of a body is the area of the dispersed phase in a unit volume of the vessel.

Multi-stage counter-current extraction is expensive as more extractors are needed to strip the solid off the solvent.

After incipient fluidization, the pressure briefly decreases. This is because at incipient fluidization, the particles only become loose. They aren’t in contact with each other. They don’t start rising up. Hence, the pressure briefly decreases. Once they start moving up, the pressure increases.