STEAM WATER CYCLE:

1. The advantages of vertical super heater over horizontal super heater

a. The supports provided to the headers are not required to be design for high temperature.
b. Expansion in the tube banks is allowed
c. They arrest less slag then horizontal super-heater
d. All of the above
2. With increase in boiler load the steam temp. inconvective super heater will
a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Remain same
d. First increase then decrease
3. How many heat zones are there in most commonly pulverized coal fired boilers
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
4. To dry and raise the steam temperature it must be taken out of contact with water in the drum
and heated in a separate piece of equipment called
a. Economizer
b. Water walls
c. Drum
d. Super heater
5. Super heater absorbs
a. Sensible heat
b. Only latent heat
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
6. What factors influence the design of convective super heater
a. Flue gas velocity
b. Steam velocity
c. Temp. difference between steam and flue gas
d. All of them.
7. How much of total heat generated is absorbed in radiation zone (zone1)
a. 1/4th of total heat
b. ½ of total heat
c. ¾ of total heat
d. Total heat
8. List the super heater and re heater stages in the correct sequence for 210MW pulverized coal fire
unit.
a. Drum- Roof super heater- Low temp. SH- Platten SH- Final SH- Re-Heater-HP turbine-IP turbine
b. Drum- Roof super heater- Low temp. SH- Platten SH-Re heater-Final SH-HPT-IPT
c. Drum- Roof super heater- Low temp. SH- Platten SH-Final-HP-HPT-Re heater-IPT
d. Drum- Roof super heater- Low temp. SH- Platten SH-Final-HP-HPT-IPT-RH
9. Safety valves on drum and super heater outlet are said to open in the following order
a. First SH, Drum
b. First Drum , SH
c. Both open simultaneously
d. None of the above
10. In boiler the type of boiling is
a. Nucleate boiling
b. Film boiling
c. Both nucleate and film boiling
d. Neither A nor B
11. At critical pressure density of water
a. is greater that of steam
b. is equal to that of steam
c. is less than that of wet steam
d. None of the above
12. The boiler drum of modern boilers are supported
a. Bottom supported
b. Top supported
c. Both top and bottom supported
d. None
13. How does separator remove moisture from steam
a. By forcing it through high pressure environment
b. By forcing it to spin
c. By forcing it through low pressure environment
d. By forcing it through a vacuum
14. How does a mesh dryer remove moisture from steam
a. By forcing steam through changes in direction
b. By adding more heat energy to the steam
c. By creating a high pressure environment
d. By forcing the steam through a vacuum
Short Questions:

1. Draw a schematic diagram of water and steam circuit of modern boiler.

2. Draw a schematic diagram showing drum internals of modern boiler.
3. How the super heaters are easily classified, name them.
4. What is radiant super heater and how does it differ from convective super heater and where it is
located in the furnace.
5.