Course Code : AME1120

Reg. No :

GAYATRI VIDYA PARISHAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (AUTONOMOUS)

Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam-530 048.

Affiliated to JNT University K, Kakinada

B.Tech. V-Semester Regular & Supplementary Examinations, Dec-13/ Jan-14

Thermal Engineering-II
(Mechanical Engineering)
Date : 07-01-2014
Time : 3 Hours
1. Question No. 1 is Compulsory.
2. Answer any FOUR from questions 2 to 8.
3. All parts of a Question must be answered in one place to get valued.
1.

Max. Marks : 60

Explain the following in 4 or 5 sentences.

a) Name the different refrigerants generally used.
b) Define specific humidity and relative humidity.
c) What is vacuum efficiency of a condensing plant?
d) Define the term degree of reaction as applied to a reaction turbine.
e) Give the classification of steam turbines.
f) What is meant by critical pressure ratio of a nozzle?
g) Differentiate between lever safety valve and dead weight safety valve.
h) What do you mean by minimum air and excess air in context of combustion?

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2.

a) Compare impulse and reaction turbine.

b) Explain the working principle of counter flow jet condenser with neat sketch. Discuss the
merits and demerits.

5 Marks
6 Marks

3.

a) What do you understand by the term friction in an impulse turbine? How does it effect the
combined velocity triangle.
b) A single row impulse turbine develops 132.4 KW at a blade speed of 175 m/s using 2 Kg of
steam per second. Steam leaves the nozzle at 400 m/s. Velocity coefficient of the blades is
0.9. Steam leaves the blades axially. Determine the nozzle angle, blade angles at entry and
exit, assuming no shock.

5 Marks

4.

a) Derive an expression for the C.O.P of an ideal vapour absorption refrigeration system.
b) Explain the effect of sub cooling of condensate with the help of T-S and p-h diagrams in
vapour compression system.

5 Marks
6 Marks

5.

The following data relate to an air conditioned space:

Out door condition - 38C DBT, 50% RH
Room condition - 24C DBT, 50% RH
Sensible heat load 24KW
Latent heat load 6 KW
By pass factor of the cooling coil 0.16
If the ventilation requirement is such that on mass flow rate basis 20% of fresh air is introduced
and 80% of supply air is re-circulated. Determine
a) Supply air flow rate
b) outside air sensible heat
c) out side air latent heat
d) Grand total heat.

11 Marks

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6.

a) List out the merits and demerits of liquid fuels over solid fuels.
b) Describe regenerative feed heating as used in thermal power plants. List its advantages.

5 Marks
6 Marks

7.

a) Describe with a neat diagram, the construction and working of a Babcock and Wilcox water
tube boiler.
b) A boiler uses 18 Kg air per Kg of fuel. Determine the minimum height of chimney required to
produce a draught of 25 mm of water. The mean temperature of chimney gases is 315C and
that of outside air 27C.

7 Marks

0.16 Kg of super heated steam per second enters a convergent-divergent nozzle at 5 bar and
160C and leaves at 0.2 bar exit pressure. Considering super saturation upto throat and thermal
equilibrium beyond it. Calculate
a) Area of nozzle at exit
b) degree of super saturation
c) degree of under cooling

11 Marks

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4 Marks