PERIYAR CENTENARY POLYTECHNIC COLLAGE

THERMAL ENGINEERING -11

SUBCODE:- MEB-510

QUESTION BANK DETAILS

UNIT-1
PART A
1. What is the value of the boiling point of water?
2. What is value of the dryness fraction?
3. What are the types of calorimeter?
4. Write advantages of steam tables.
5. Define: wet steam.
6. Define: dry and saturated steam.
7. Define: superheated steam.
8. Define: enthalpy of water
9. Define: Dryness fraction.
10. Define: Internal energy of steam.
11. Define: enthalpy of evaporation.
12. Write the expression for enthalpy of super heated steam
13. Write the expression for entropy of wet steam
14. Write the expression for entropy of superheated steam
15. Write the expression for internal energy of super heated steam
16. Define external work of evaporation.
17. Define: Entropy of evaporation.
18. Define: Entropy of steam.
19. Define: density of steam.
20. What is phase diagram ?
21. What you meant by heat of super heat?
22. State three conditions of steam.
23. write the expression for enthalpy of dry and saturated steam

Part-B
1.Determine the specific volume, enthalpy, entropy, external work, internal latent heat and
ineternal energy of steam 8bar and 95%dry.
2. Determine the specific volume, enthalpy, entropy, external work, internal latent heat and
ineternal energy of dry saturatead steam at 150 C
3. Determine the specific volume, enthalpy, entropy, external work, internal latent heat and
ineternal energy of steam 20 bar and 250C.assume CPs=2.1kj/kg k.

4.Find the amount of heat required to rise the temperature of 3kg of water at 40Cto generation
temperature of 175C
5.Find the amount of heat required for 3kg of water at45C in order to convert it into steam at 4
bar and80%dry
6. Dry and saturated stream at heat at that a particular pressure has a total heat of 2750 kj/kg. if
it is superheated until its total heat at that pressure is 3180kj/kg .Find degree of superheat.
Assume Cps=2.2kj/kg k.
7. determine the entropy of super heated steam at a pressure of 14 bar and temperature of 250C
.assume CPs=2.05kj/kg k.
8.In an experiment on wet steam in a barrel calorimeter, the following readings were taken.
Steam pressure= 5.5bar
Mass of copper calorimeter=1kg
Mass of calorimeter+water=3.8kg,
Mass of calorimeter+water+_steam=4kg,

Initial temperature of water=10C

Final temperature of water=50C
Specific heat of copper=0.092kj/kg k. calculate dryness fraction of steam.
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9. The following observation were recorded to find the Dryness Fraction of steam by combined
separated and throttling calorimeter
Total quantity of steam passed=36kg
Water drained from separator=1.8kg
Steam pressure before throttling=12 bar
Pressure of steam after throttling =atmospheric pressure

Temperature of steam after throttling =110C

Specific heat of superheated steam =2.091 kj/kg k
Determine the a) dryness fraction of steam entering into throttling calorimeter
b)Dryness fraction of steam in steam main

10. Explain the separating and throttling calorimeter

 UNIT -2
PART A

1. What is the function of air pre heater?

2. What is the function of super heater?
3. Write the function of economizer.
4. Write the advantages of high pressure boiler.
5. What is boilers?
6. What is high pressure boilers? give an example.
7. Give an example for high pressure boilers.
8. List the boilers mountings as per the Indian boiler act.
9. What is boilers mountings?
10. What is boiler accessories?
11. What is fire tube boilers?
12. What is water tube boilers?
13. What are the common external treatment given to boilers feed water?
14. State any two functions of boiler accessories.
15. What are two the common internal treatments given to the boiler feed water?
16. Name any two boiler accessories.
17. What is foaming in boilers?
18. State the functions of blow off cock in boiler.
19. State the functions of springs loaded safety valve
20. Define: Capacity of boilers
21. Define: Actual evaporation
22. Define: Factor evaporation
23. Define: equipment evaporation
24. Define: boiler power
25. Write down the formula for mass of actual evaporation ?
26. Define: boiler efficiency.
27. What are the objectives of boilers trail ?
28. What are the various heat losses in boiler? explain how it is minimized ?
29. What are the various factors influencing boilers efficiency ?

PART-B
1.State the main clauses of Indian boiler act

2. Explain with neat sketch the working of Lamont boiler

3. Explain with line sketch the working of BHEL high pressure boiler
4. Explain with neat sketch the functions location and working of any two boilers mountings
5. Explain with neat sketch the functions locations working of any two boilers accessories
6. A boilers generation 810 kg of steam per hour at 11 bar absolute with 50C superheat the coal
supplied is 90 kg per hour and calorific value is 29000 KJ /Kg the feed water temperatures 45C
and specific heat of super heated steam is 2.1 KJ /Kg .calculate
a) Actual evaporation
b) Equivalent evaporation from and at100C
c) Boiler efficiency

d) Boiler power
7. During the test of an oil fired water tube boilers the following data were obtained
Steam pressure : 16 bar abs
Water evaporation per minute : 282.85 kg
Feed water temperature : 76c
Quality of staem:99%dry

Fuel oil fired per minute : 22.45kg

Calorific valve of fuel oil: 44966 KJ /Kg oil
Calculate
a) C actual evaporation
b) V factor of evaporation

c) The Equivalent evaporation from and at 100C

d) Boiler efficiency
E) Boiler power
8. In an evaporation test on a boiler, the following readings were recorded
Size of feed water tank : 5m x2m
Initial depth of water:3m

Final depth of water:2.25m

Amount oil fired:800litres
Specific gravity of oil;0.82
Cv of fuel; ;42000kj/kg
Boiler water temperature :40.c
feed water pressure ;10bar abs
quantity of steam : 0.95dry
Duration of trail:25min
Calculate
a) Actual evaporation Equipment evaporation from ands at 100C
b) Boiler efficiency
c) Boiler power

9. A boiler generation 8.5 kg of steam per kg coal burned at is pressure of 12.5 bar gauge from
Feed water having absolute temperature of 350K the efficiency of boiler is 70% and factor of
evaporation is 1.17, specific heat of super heated steam is 2.2 KJ /Kg k.
 UNIT 3
PART-A

1. What are the basic cycles for steam power plant?

2. What is the actual power cycle for steam power plant?

3. Name the processes in Carnot cycle?

4. Draw the T-S diagram for Carnot steam power cycle and name the processes

5. Draw the T-S diagram of Rankine cycle and name the processes

6. What Is the purpose of using modified Rankine cycle?

7. Write the formula to determine maximum thermal efficiency of the steam power cycle.

8. What is steam turbine?

9. What is impulse turbine?

10. What is reaction turbine?

11. What is impulse reaction turbine?

12. What is meant by compounding of turbines?

13. Why are the steam turbines compounded?

14. List the type of compounding.

15. Name the important industrial turbines?

16. Why are steam condenser used in steam power plant?

17. List the elements of steam condensing plant.

18. What is jet condenser?

19. What are the types of jet condenser?

20. What is surface condenser?

21. What are the types of surface condensers?

22. What is meant by condensers vacuum?

23. Define :vacuum efficiency

24. Define: condenser efficiency.

25. State Daltons law of partial pressure

PART B

1. Draw the P-V and T-S diagram of modified ranking cycle and indicate various processes

2. Explain the working of the following with suitable sketches

a)Bake pressure turbine

b) Exhaust turbine

3. Draw the explain P-V and T-S diagram of Carnot cycle and derive an expression

for efficiency of Carnot cycle using steam as working fluid.

4. What is the necessity of compounding ? Explain pressure compounding in a steam

turbine with a neat sketch.

5. What is meant by special turbine? Explain bleeder turbine with suitable line diagram.

Also mention their applications.

6. What is meant by pressure velocity compounding? Explain with a neat sketch.

7. The vacuum in the condenser is 680mm of Hg with barometer readings of 755 mm of

Hg. The condenser temperature is 20C.

Find a) corrected vacuum

b) Partial pressure of air and steam

c) Mass of air per kg of uncondensed steam

d) Mass of the air per m3 of condenser volume.

8. During a trail on steam condenser a vacuum of 685mm of Hg was obtained with a

barometer readings of 765 mm of Hg. The temperature of the condenser is 34c.

Correct the vacuum to a standard barometer reading of 760mm of Hg. Also determine

the partial pressure of air and steam. Vacuum efficiency, mass of air present per kg of

uncondensed stream.

9. Explain the working of condensing plant with line diagram.

10. Explain working of two types jet condenser

11. Explain the working of surface condenser with suitable sketch.

12. Explain the working of evaporative condenser.

 UNIT-4
PART-A
1. Define : Refrigeration

2. What is refrigerator?

3. What is heat pump?

4. Define: COP of refrigerator.

5. Define : COP of heat pump

6. Define: Refrigerating effect

7. Define: capacity of refrigerator

8. Define unit of refrigeration

9. Define: refrigerant

10. Define air conditioning

11. Define specific humidity

12. Define relative humidity

13. Define : Dew point temperature

14. Define : Dry bulb depression

15. Define wet bulb depression

16. What is the psychometric chart?

17. What is the sensible cooling?

18. What is the sensible heating ?

19. What is humidification?

20. What is de-humidification?

21. Define actual COP.

22. Name the psychometric process employed in summer A/C.

23. Name the psychometric process employed in winter A/C.

24. What are the ideal cycles for air refrigeration system?

25. Give an example for Vapour compression refrigeration system.

PART-B

1. Differentiate Vapour compression and Vapour absorption system

2. Explain with line diagram the working of Vapour compression refrigeration system.

3. Explain with line diagram the working of Vapour absorption refrigeration system

4. Describe the working of window type of air conditioning system with a sketch.

5. Describe working of central plant air conditioning system with a sketch

6. With a neat sketch explain the air refrigeration system working on bell- coleman cycle.

7. A refrigeration system operates on the reversed carnet cycle. The highest temperature of

the refrigeration system is 40C and the lowest temperature is 10C. The capacity of the

machine is to be 10 tones . Find a) COP b) Heat rejected from the system per hour c)

power required for diving of machine.

8. A Carnot refrigerator requires 1.25 KW per ton of refrigeration to maintain the

temperature of -28c. Find the a) COP b) Temperature at which heat is rejected.

9. An air refrigeration system works on reversed Carnot cycle between the temperature

limits of 28C and 5C. The capacity of the system is 10 tones. Find a) COP b) Heat

rejected from the system per hour . c) Power required for the motor if the overall

efficiency is 85%.
 UNIT -5

PART A

1. What is meant by conventional sources of energy?

2. List the important conventional energy sources.
3. List the important components of hydroelectric power plants
4. .list the important components of diesel power plant
5. List the important nuclear fuel
6. .list the important fissile fuels used
7. List the important fertile fuels used
8. What is meant by fissile fuel?
9. What is meant by fertile fuel?
10. What is meant by nuclear fission
11. What is meant by nuclear fusion
12. What is chain reactions
13. List the important elements of nuclear fusion
14. List the important components of nuclear power plant
15. Give an example for moderators materials
16. Give an example for control rod materials
17. Give an example for coolant used in nuclear reactor
18. What is the main function of moderator
19. What are the functions of control rod?
20. What is the function of coolant in nuclear reactor
21. Write the expansion of PWR
22. Write the expansion of BWR
23. What stands for CANDU?
24. Name the fuel and moderator used in PWR.

PART-B

1.Draw the layout of hydroelectric power plant and explain in details

2.With suitable line diagram explain the diesel power plant. State its merits and demerits

3.What are the advantages and disadvantages of hydroelectric power plant

4.What are the merits and demerits of diesel power plant?

5.Draw the layout of nuclear power plant and explain

6. With a neat sketch explain the working of BWR ?state its merits and demerits
7.With a neat sketch explain the working of CANDU type reactions .state its merits and demerits

8.Explain nuclear fuel cycle

9.Explain in detail about any three methods of uranium enrichments

10.Discuss in detail about disposal of nuclear wastes

11.Discuss in details about nuclear power plants in India