POWER PLANT EXIT EXAM (ME147X)

INSTRUCTION: Write your answer beside each number. If the answer is 11. Which of the following coal grade has a carbon content of 35-
not found among the choices, shade letter E. 45%?
A. Lignite
EXAMINATION STARTS HERE! B. Sub-bituminous
C. Bituminous
1. The alternator is used in power plants which converts… D. Anthracite
A. Mechanical to Electrical Energy 12. It is the heating value obtained when the water in the products
B. Electrical to Mechanical Energy of combustion is in the vapor state.
C. Mechanical to Chemical Energy A. Lower heating value
D. Chemical to Mechanical Energy B. Higher heating value
2. The efficiency of a chimney is approximately… C. Combustion heating value
A. 20% D. Calorific value
B. 90% 13. It consists of all of the components of crude oil that have
C. 10% boiling points above 3430C.
D. 65% A. Naphtha
3. The main source of production of biogas is… B. Diesel oil
A. Human waste C. Jet fuel
B. Wet cow dung D. Bottoms
C. Wet livestock waste 14. These are long channels that carry water down from the
D. Decomposing waste hydroelectric reservoir to the turbines inside the power stations.
4. For force draught system, the function of the chimney is… A. Outflow
A. To produce draught to accelerate the combustion of B. Penstock
fuel C. Surge channel
B. To discharge gases high up to the atmosphere to D. Spillway
avoid hazard 15. Economizers improve boiler efficiency by…
C. To reduce the temperature of the hot gases A. 1 to 5%
discharge B. 4 to 10%
D. To preserve chimney effectivity C. 10 to 12%
5. Binary vapor cycles are used to… D. 13 to 15%
A. Increase the performance of the condenser 16. Blowing down of boiler water is the process to…
B. Minimize the production of wet steam A. Reduce the boiler pressure
C. Increase the efficiency of the plant B. Increase the steam pressure
D. All of the above C. Remove concentrated saline water
6. The draught in locomotive boilers is produced by… D. Avoid stagnant water
A. Forced fan 17. Compounding of steam turbine is done for…
B. Chimney A. Reducing the work done
C. Steam jet B. Increase the rotor speed
D. Only locomotive motion C. Reduce the rotor speed
7. Pulverized fuel is used for… D. Balance the turbine
A. Better burning 18. A type of forced-induction system which experiences no lag
B. Saving fuel time because the compressor is rotating proportional to the
C. Environment-friendly exhaust engine speed.
D. Cheaper cost A. Supercharger
8. If the equivalence ratio is less than one, then this indicates a… B. Turbocharger
A. Fuel-lean mixture C. Intercooler
B. Fuel-rich mixture D. Detonator
C. Stoichiometric mixture 19. Which of the following cycles is composed of the following
D. Incombustible mixture processes: 1-2)Isentropic, 2-3)Isobaric, 3-4)Isentropic, 4-
9. Heating value of diesel oil is about… 1)Isobaric.
A. 5000 kcal/kg A. Carnot cycle
B. 7000 kcal/kg B. Joule cycle
C. 9000 kcal/kg C. Atkinson cycle
D. 11000 kcal/kg D. Stirling cycle
10. Caking cokes are those which… 20. What is the amount of heat energy required to raise the
A. Burn completely temperature of one pound of water one-degree Fahrenheit. It is
B. Burn freely 1/180 of the heat required to raise the temperature of one pound
C. Do not foam ash of water from 32 to 212oF at constant atmospheric pressure of
D. Form lumps of coke 14,696 psi absolute.
A. Specific heat
B. British thermal unit
C. Calorie
D. Sensible heat
21. It is a boiler fuel created from the residue produced from crude 28. A Pelton type turbine has 25m head friction loss of 4.5m. The
petroleum after it has been distilled to produce lighter oils like coefficient of friction head loss (from Morse) is 0.00093 and
gasoline, paraffin, kerosene, diesel or gas oil. What is this fuel? penstock length of 80 m. What is the penstock diameter?
A. 1,355.73 mm
A. Peat
B. Coke B. 3,476.12 mm
C. Oil C. 6,771.23 mm
D. Kerosene D. 1686.73 mm
22. A 80 MW power plant has an average load of 34 500 kW and a 29. A hydroelectric plant having 30 sq. km reservoir area and 100
load factor of 0.75. Find the reserve power over a peak load m head is used to generate power. The energy utilized by the
power. consumers whose load is connected to the power plant during
A. 14,000 kW a five-hour period is 13.5 x 106 kWh. The overall generation
B. 24,000 kW efficiency is 75%. Find the fall in the height of water in the
C. 34,000 kW reservoir after the 5-hour period.
D. 4,000 kW A. 5.13 m
23. Maximum demand of 30 MW and 10 MW are connected to a B. 1.32 m
power plant with a peak load of 70 MW. What is the diversity C. 3.21 m
factor of the plant?
D. 2.20 m
24. 0.78
B. 0.53 30. A 16,000KW geothermal plant has a generator efficiency and
C. 0.50 turbine efficiency of 90% and 80%., respectively if the quality
D. 0.65 after throttling is 20% and each well discharges 400,000 kg/hr,
23. A dual cycle has an initial temperature of 30˚C. The determine the number of wells are required to produce if the
compression ratio is 6 and the heat addition at constant volume charge of enthalpy if the change of enthalpy at entrance and
process is 600 KJ/kg. If cut-off ratio is 2.5, find the maximum exit of turbine is 500KJ/kg.
temperature of the cycle. A. 2 wells
A. 3638.500C B. 8 wells
B. 3365.500C C. 3 wells
C. 3565.500C D. 7 wells
D. 3965.500C 31. A diesel electric plant supplies energy for Meralco. During a 24-
25. A steam turbine with 85% stage efficiency receives steam at 7 hour period, the plant consumed 240 gallons of fuel at 28°C and
Mpa and 5500C and exhausts as 20 KPa. Determine the turbine produced 3930 KW-hr. Industrial fuel used is 28°API and was
work. purchased at P30 per liter at 15.6°C. What is the cost of the fuel
At 7 Mpa and 550oC: be to produce one KW-hr?
h1 = 3530.9 Kj/kg A. Php 6.87
s1 = 6.9486
B. Php 1.10
At 20 KPa:
sf = 0.8320 C. Php 41.07
hf = 251.4 D. Php 5.00
sfg = 7.0766 32. A diesel cycle has a cut off ratio of 2.5 and expansion ratio of
hfg = 2358.3 4. Find the clearance of the cycle.
A. 9.11%
A. 1,054.95 kJ/kg B. 5.55%
B. 1,132.11 kJ/kg C. 11.11%
C. 1,123.34 kJ/kg D. 15.15%
D. 1,177.23 kJ/kg 33. A 200 mm x 250 mm, 8-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engine has a
26. An engine-generator rated 9000 KVA at 80% power factor, 3 brake power of 150 kw. The mechanical efficiency is 80 %. If
phase, 4160 V has an efficiency of 90%. If overall plant two of the cylinders were accidentally cut off, what will be the
efficiency is 28%, what is the heat generated by the fuel? new friction power?
A. 28,912 kW A. 31.50 kW
B. 22,871 kW B. 33.50 kW
C. 18,617 kW
C. 35.50 kW
D. 25,714 kW
27. In a gas turbine unit, air enters the combustion chamber at 550 D. 37.50 kW
kPa, 277°C and 43 m/s. The products of combustion leave the 34. An Otto cycle has a compression ratio of 8. Find the pressure
combustor at 511 kPa, 1004°C and 180 m/s. Liquid fuel enters ratio during compression.
with a heating value of 43,000 KJ/kg. For fuel-air ratio of 0.0229, A. 18.38
what is the combustor efficiency of the unit in percent? B. 16.38
A. 70.38% C. 14.38
B. 79.33% D. 12.38
C. 75.38% 35. A Carnot cycle is represented by a rectangle in a T-s diagram
D. 82.38% that operates between temperature limits of 300K and 650K.
Inscribed within a rectangle is a ellipse of maximum major and
minor axes, represents a cycle and operating at the same
temperature limits. Considering that the major axis of the ellipse
is two times that of its minor axis. Determine the thermal
efficiency of the cycle represented by an ellipse.
A. 44.88%
B. 48.48%
C. 43.66%
D. 46.36%