Department of Mechanical Engineering

Unit test-1 (Set-B)

B. Tech. VI Semester Subject – Steam Engineering
Name of student- Roll No.-
Time: 30 Min. Max Marks: 20

1. A condenser in a thermal power plant condenses 14. In the T-s diagram of vapour power cycle, what is
steam coming out of the condition of steam at the starting of turbine
(a) Boiler (b) Super-heater expansion?
(c) Economizer (d) Turbine.
2. Super heated steam is always
(a) at a temperature higher than the saturation
temperature corresponding to a steam pressure
(b) at a pressure more than the boiler steam pressure
(c) separated from water particles before being supplied
to turbine
(d) at a pressure less than the maximum cycle pressure. (a) wet with dryness fraction 0.8
(b) wet with dryness fraction 0.99
3. The following are the fire tube boilers except
(a) Cochran (b) Lancashire (c) dry saturated
(d) superheated
(c) Locomotive (d) Babcock and Wilcox
4. The following is a boiler mounting 15. Under certain conditions, the specific enthalpies of
dry steam, saturated water and wet steam are 2783 kJ/kg,
(a) Feed pump (b) Water level gauge
(c) Economizer (d) Superheater 1219 kJ/kg and 2750 kJ/kg respectively. Determine the
dryness fraction of wet steam.
5. The boiler works on a forced circulation is
(a) Cochran (b) Lancashire (a) 0.01 (b) 0.02 (c) 0.021 (d) 0.03
16. The following is the correct order of energy
(c) Lamont (d) Stirling
6. _____ is generally placed after the economizer conversion in thermal power plants
(a) Air preheater (b)Superheater (a) Chemical – Mechanical – Electrical energy
(c) Evaporator (d)None of the above (b) Mechanical – Chemical – Electrical energy
7. Which of the following is a low pressure boiler? (c) Wind – Mechanical – Electrical energy
(a) Babcock and Wilcox (b) Velox (d) Heat – Electrical – Mechanical energy
(c) Lamont (d) Cochran 17. Superheating of steam is done at
8. Which of the following is used to heat the feed water (a)Constant volume (b) Constant temperature
by using waste heat of flue gases? (c) Constant pressure (d) Constant enthalpy
(a) Air preheater (b) Superheater 18. At ideal condition of vapour power cycle, reversible
(c) Economizer (d) Steam separator constant pressure heat rejection is carried out at
9. The impurities are removed from boiler with the help (a) boiler (b) turbine
of (c) condenser (d) feed pump
(a) Safety valve (b)Blow off cock 19. What is the highlighted area (area enclosed by 1234)
(c) Stop valve (d) Fusible plug in the following T-s diagram of vapour power cycle
10. On Mollier chart, isentropic flow through turbine is indicate?
represented by-
(a) Horizontal straight line (b) Vertical straight line
(c) Straight inclined line (d) Curved line
11. In fire tube boilers, pressure is limited to
(a) 16 bar (b) 32 bar
(c) 48 bar (d) 64 bar
12. At critical pressure- (a) heat added in cycle (b) work produced by turbine
(a) Entropy zero (b) Latent heat of vaporization is zero (c) net work produced by cycle (d) heat rejected from
(c) Saturated vapour becomes a gas cycle
(d) Sublimation occurs from solid to vapour phase 20. The following is an accessory of a boiler.
13. In a steam turbine cycle, the lowest pressure occurs a. (a) Pressure gauge (b)Safety valve
(a) turbine inlet (b) boiler (c) condenser (d) super heater b. (c) Fusible plug (d) Superheater