Boilers, Mountings and Accessories

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This set of Thermal Engineering 1 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Boilers, Mountings and Accessories

Q1 | The diameter of fire tubes in Cochran boiler is of the order of
  • 2 cm
  • 6 Cm
  • 8 cm
  • 12 cm
Q2 | In a recuperative air preheater, the heat is transferred
  • from a metal wall from one medium to another
  • from heating an itermediate material and then heating the air from this material
  • by direct mixing ,
  • heat is tr
Q3 | The function of injector used in small capacity boilers is to
  • create vacuum
  • inject chemical solution in feed pump
  • pump water, similar to boiler feed pump
  • add make up water in the system
Q4 | The maximum discharge through a chimney occurs when the height of chimney is
  • infinitely long
  • around 200 meters
  • equal to the height of the hot gas column producing draught
  • outside temperature is very low
Q5 | The economiser is used in boilers to
  • increase thermal efficiency of boiler
  • economise on fuel
  • extract heat from the exhaust flue gases
  • increase flue gas temperature
Q6 | An economiser in a boiler
  • increases steam pressure
  • increases steam flow
  • decreases fuel consumption
  • decreases steam pressure
Q7 | The safety valve on boiler drum compared to safety valve on superheater is set at
  • same value
  • higher value
  • lower value
  • lower/higher depending on steam flow
Q8 | The capacity of induced draft fan compared to forced draft fan in a boiler is
  • same
  • more
  • less
  • less or more depending on size of boiler
Q9 | Evaporative capacity of boiler is expressed as
  • kg of steam produced
  • steam pressure produced
  • kg of fuel fired
  • kg of steam produced per kg of fuel fired
Q10 | The condition of steam in boiler drum is always
  • dry
  • wet
  • saturated
  • superheated.
Q11 | The balanced draft furnace is one using
  • induced draft fan and chimney
  • induced draft fan and forced draft fan
  • forced draft fan and chimney
  • any one of the above
Q12 | Fire tube boilers are limited to a maximum design working pressure of
  • 1 kg/cm
  • 6 kg/cm
  • 17 kg/cm2
  • 100 kg/cm2
Q13 | For the same diameter and thickness of tube, a water tube boiler compared to a fire tube boiler has
  • more heating surface
  • less heating surface
  • equal heating surface
  • heating surface depends on other parameters
Q14 | The feed check valve is used in order to
  • regulate flow of boiler water
  • check level of water in boiler drum
  • recirculate unwanted feed water
  • allow high pressure feed water to flow to drum and not allow reverse flow to take place
Q15 | Equivalent evaporation is the amount of water evaporated in a boiler from and at
  • 0°C
  • 100°C
  • saturation temperature at given pressure
  • room temperature
Q16 | The equivalent evaporation of a boiler is a measure to compare
  • the given boiler with the model
  • the two different boilers of the same make
  • two different makes of boilers operat¬ing under the same operating conditions
  • any type of boilers operating under any conditions.
Q17 | Steam nozzle converts
  • heat energy of steam into pressure energy
  • heat energy of steam into kinetic energy
  • pressure energy of steam into heat energy
  • pressure energy of steam into potential energy
Q18 | A nozzle is designed for
  • maximum pressure at the outlet
  • maximum discharge
  • maximum pressure and maximum discharge
  • maximum kinetic energy at the outlet
Q19 | Ideal expansion of steam through a nozzle is considered
  • isothermal
  • adiabatic
  • polytropic
  • none of the above
Q20 | Presence of frictional effect during flow through the nozzle
  • reduces the exit velocity
  • increases the exit velocity
  • has no effect on exit velocity
  • none of the above
Q21 | Frictional losses in the nozzle
  • reduces the heat drop
  • increases the heat drop
  • has no effect on heat drop
  • none of the above
Q22 | While steam expands in turbines, theoretically the entropy
  • remains constant
  • increases
  • decreases
  • behaves unpredictably
Q23 | Nozzle efficiency is defined as
  • ratio of isentropic heat drop to useful heat drop
  • ratio of useful heat drop to isentropic heat drop
  • product of useful heat drop and isentropic heat drop
  • none of the above
Q24 | When a nozzle operates with maximum mass flow, it is said to be
  • under expanding flow
  • over expanding flow
  • choked flow
  • none of the above
Q25 | For supersaturated flow in the nozzle, the discharge
  • increases
  • decreases
  • remains constant
  • none of the above