The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about topics related to boilers and steam engines. The questions cover topics such as the conditions required to burn coal, types of safety valves used with boilers, the effect of adding additional convection heating surfaces to a boiler, the relationship between steam pressure in an engine cylinder and boiler pressure, definitions of adiabatic and natural circulation boilers, and parts of boilers like blow off cocks. The final question asks about the energy equivalent of 1 kilowatt-hour.
The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about topics related to boilers and steam engines. The questions cover topics such as the conditions required to burn coal, types of safety valves used with boilers, the effect of adding additional convection heating surfaces to a boiler, the relationship between steam pressure in an engine cylinder and boiler pressure, definitions of adiabatic and natural circulation boilers, and parts of boilers like blow off cocks. The final question asks about the energy equivalent of 1 kilowatt-hour.
The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about topics related to boilers and steam engines. The questions cover topics such as the conditions required to burn coal, types of safety valves used with boilers, the effect of adding additional convection heating surfaces to a boiler, the relationship between steam pressure in an engine cylinder and boiler pressure, definitions of adiabatic and natural circulation boilers, and parts of boilers like blow off cocks. The final question asks about the energy equivalent of 1 kilowatt-hour.
The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about topics related to boilers and steam engines. The questions cover topics such as the conditions required to burn coal, types of safety valves used with boilers, the effect of adding additional convection heating surfaces to a boiler, the relationship between steam pressure in an engine cylinder and boiler pressure, definitions of adiabatic and natural circulation boilers, and parts of boilers like blow off cocks. The final question asks about the energy equivalent of 1 kilowatt-hour.
2. A safety valve usually employed with stationary boilers is
(A) Lever safety valve
(B) Dead weight safety valve
(C) High steam and low water safety valve
(D) All of these
Correct Answer
3. The relative heat absorption for successively added equal areas of boiler convection heating surfaces
(A) Increases
(B) Decreases
(C) Remain unaffected
(D) First increases and then decreases
Correct Answer
4. The pressure of steam in the engine cylinder at the beginning of the stroke is ________ the boiler pressure.
(A) Equal to
(B) Less than
(C) Higher than
(D) None of these
Correct Answer
5. Adiabatic process is (A) Essentially an isentropic process
(B) Non-heat transfer process
(C) Reversible process
(D) Constant temperature process
Correct Answer
6. Lancashire boiler is
(A) Stationary fire tube boiler
(B) Internally fired boiler
(C) Horizontal boiler
(D) All of these
Correct Answer
7. Cochran boiler is a
(A) Horizontal fire tube boiler
(B) Horizontal water tube boiler
(C) Vertical water tube boiler
(D) Vertical fire tube boiler
Correct Answer
8. Blow off cock in a boiler is used to
(A) Control the flow of steam from the boiler to the main pipe and to shut off the steam completely when required
(B) Empty the boiler when required and to discharge the mud, scale or sediments which are accumulated at the bottom of the boiler
(C) Put off fire in the furnace of the boiler when the level of water in the boiler falls to an unsafe limit
(D) Increase the temperature of saturated steam without raising its pressure Correct Answer 9. The diameter of internal flue tubes in a Lancashire boiler compared to its shell is
(A) One-half
(B) One-third
(C) Two-fourth
(D) Two-fifth Correct Answer
10. When the circulation of water, in a boiler, is by convection currents which are set up during the heating of water, then the boiler is known as
(A) Internally fired boiler
(B) Externally fired boiler
(C) Natural circulation boiler
(D) Forced circulation boiler
Correct Answer
11. Thermal efficiency of a thermal power plant is of the order of
(A) 15 %
(B) 20 %
(C) 30 %
(D) 45 % Correct Answer
12. The high steam and low water safety valve is not used in
(A) Cochran boiler
(B) Cornish boiler
(C) Lancashire boiler
(D) Locomotive boiler
Correct Answer 13. Expanding steam to a very low pressure (high vacuum) in steam engines is
(A) Desirable
(B) Economical
(C) Essential
(D) Uneconomical Correct Answer
14. The cylinder dimensions of a compound engine may be designed on the basis of
(A) Equal power developed in each cylinder for uniform turning moment
(B) Equal initial piston loads on all pistons for obtaining same size of piston rod, connecting rod etc. for all cylinders
(C) Equal temperature drop in each cylinder for economy of steam
