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1. Enumerate and explain the steps involved in coal handling.

2. What are the different coal handling and transfer equipment?
3. Describe the in plant coal handling with a neat diagram
4. Enumerate and explain the steps involved in coal handling
5. What are the requirements of good coal handling plant?
6. List out the various coal handling equipment.
7. Describe different types of coal conveyors.
8. What are different types of hoppers used for coal in steam power plants
and explain them.
9. What are the methods used for handling of coal?
10.What is the function of a coal crusher?
11.List various pollutants released by the coal based thermal power plants and
explain the techniques adopted to mitigate them.
12.Discuss the various steps involved in Coal handling systems.
*******combustion equipment_fire handling_stokers****************
13.Explain the working of spreader stoker with neat sketch.
14.What is stoker? Classify it.
15.Explain the working of single retort stoker with neat sketch.
16.With the help of a neat diagram, explain chain grate stoker. List a few
advantages and disadvantages.
17.What are the advantages of stoker firing? Explain the working of traveling
grate stoker with simple sketch. State its outstanding features.
18.Explain the working of spreader stoker with neat sketch.
19.Make neat sketch and explain the working of (i) Chain stoker; (ii) Spreader
stoker.
20.Give a brief note on grate and retort stokers.
21.Discuss the constructional and operational features of retort stokers used
in thermal power plants.
22.With neat sketches and combustion equations explain overfeed and under
feed mechanism of burning of coal.
23.Differentiate between underfeed and overfeed fuel bed systems.
24.Describe the various types of grates used with hand fired furnace.
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25.What is pulverization? Why is it done?
26.What is pulveriser and why it is used?
27.With the help of line diagram, explain the central pulverized fuel handling
system.
28.List the advantages and disadvantages of using pulverized coal.
29.What is pulverized coal? Explain the BIN system with a neat diagram.
30.What are different components of pulverized fuel burning system?
31.Classify the pulverised fuel burners and list the requirements of them.
 32.Merits and demerits of pulverized coal.
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33.Explain the working principle of cyclone furnace with neat diagram.
34.Give a brief note on cyclone furnace.
35.Draw a neat diagram of cyclone burner and explain its outstanding features
36.Discuss requirements of oil burners. With neat sketch explain long flame
turbulent burners and tangential Burners.
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37.Explain the general layout of ash handling and dust collection systems.
38.List out the various ash handling equipment.
39.Write short notes on: Ash handling system.
40.Explain ash handling cycle layout for the thermal power plant and discuss
the salient features.
41.Explain the following subsystems of thermal power plant (i) Fuel handling
system; (ii) Ash handling system.
42.What are the good characteristics of a good ash handling plant?
43.Why ash and dust handling is more difficult than coal handling?
44.What are the different ash handling systems? And explain mechanical
handling system.
45.Explain the general layout of ash handling and dust collection systems
46.What are the uses of ash?
47.Enumerate different types of Ash handling system. Explain Pneumatic ash
handling system with advantages and disadvantages.
48.Briefly discuss the commonly used ash handling systems.
49.Classify the ash handling system. Explain the working principle of
mechanical handling system with neat sketch.
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50.What for draught system is used and explains its significance.
51.List the different types of draught systems.
52.What are the advantages of artificial draught over natural draught?
53.What is draught? Classify it.
54.Explain with sketch the operation of balanced draught system. What are its
advantages?
55.Explain the various draught systems with a neat sketch
56.State the classification of Draught.
57.What are the advantages of artificial draught over natural draught?
58.What do you understand by the term boiler draught?
59.Classify and explain the working of mechanical dust collectors
60.Explain about pulse - jet dust collector.
61.Explain with the neat diagram the working of different types of wet
type mechanical dust collectors.
 62.Derive an expression for maximum discharge through a chirnney.
63.What are different methods used for collection of the dust before sending
the flue gas through chimney? Explain them with suitable diagrams.
64.Draw the electric line diagram to measure CO2 in the flue gases and
explain the working
65.What are the basic elements exhausted with flue gases? Which are
hazardous to human health?
66.Explain the forced induced and balanced draught chimneys
67.Calculate the mass of the flue gases flowing through the chimney when the
draught produced is equal to 1.9 cm of water.
68.Temperature of flue gases is 290C and ambient temperature is 20C. The
flue gases formed per kg of fuel burnt are 23 kg.
69.Neglect losses and take the diameter of the chimney as 1.8m.
70.Why there is no chimney in the case of a locomotive boiler?
71.What are the equipment used to control the particulates?
72.What are the different methods used to control SO2 in the flue gases?
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