Department of Mechanical Engineering

B. Tech. VI Semester
Subject – Steam Engineering
Unit test-1 (SetT-A)
Name of student- Correct Questions-
Roll No.- Incorrect Questions -
Time: 30 Min. Max Marks: 20 Total marks-

Instruction: Each right answer fetches1 marks, and for each wrong answer ¼ mark will be deducted

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1. In the T-s diagram of vapour power cycle, what is the 5. What is the highlighted area (area enclosed by 1234) in
condition of steam at the starting of turbine expansion? the following T-s diagram of vapour power cycle indicate?

(a) wet with dryness fraction 0.8 (a) heat added in cycle
(b) wet with dryness fraction 0.99 (b) work produced by turbine
(c) dry saturated (c) net work produced by cycle
(d) superheated (d) heat rejected from cycle

2. Under certain conditions, the specific enthalpies of dry 6. A simple Rankine cycle produces 40 MW of power, 50
steam, saturated water and wet steam are 2783 kJ/kg, 1219 MW of process heat and rejects 60 MW of heat to the
kJ/kg and 2750 kJ/kg respectively. Determine the dryness surroundings. What is the utilization factor of this co
fraction of wet steam. generation cycle neglecting the pump work?
(a) 0.01 (b) 0.02 (c) 0.021 (d) 0.03 (a) 50 (b) 60 (c) 70 (d) 80

3. The following is the correct order of energy conversion 7. What is the actual turbine inlet temperature in Rankine
in thermal power plants cycle?
(a) Chemical energy – Mechanical energy – Electrical (a) 700 oC (b) 800 oC
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energy (c) 550 C (d) 1150 oC
(b) Mechanical energy – Chemical energy – Electrical
energy 8. When two vapor cycles are coupled in series and heat
(c) Wind energy – Mechanical energy – Electrical energy rejected by one is absorbed by another, the cycle is called
(d) Heat energy – Electrical energy – Mechanical energy as
(a) Dual vapour cycle
4. Sometimes the pump work in vapour power cycle is (b) Binary vapour cycle
neglected because (c) Coupled vapour cycle
(a) the pump work in not considered in efficiency of (d) none of the above
vapour power cycle
(b) the pump work is very small compared to the heat 9. In a steam turbine cycle, the lowest pressure occurs in
addition (a) turbine inlet (b) boiler
(c) the pump work is very small compared to the turbine (c) condenser (d) super heater.
work
(d) none of the above 10. What is the unit of Heat rate?
(a) kJ/kW (b) kW/kJ (c) kJ (d) kW

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11. Efficiency of a power plant is more in summers or 18. Employing superheated steam in turbine leads to (a)
winters? Increase in erosion of blading
(a) summers (b) winters (c) same in both (b) Decrease in erosion of blading
(d) depends on variation (c) No erosion on blading
(d) No change in erosion of blading

12. A condenser in a thermal power plant condenses steam 19. In the Rankine cycle lower limit on the condensor
coming out of pressure is due to the
(a) Boiler (b) Super-heater (a) Expansion limit in turbine
(c) Economizer (d) Turbine. (b) Condenser Size
(c) Air leakage into the condenser
13. In jet type condenser (d) Temperature of cooling water
(a) Cooling water passes through tubes and steam
surrounds them
(b) Steam passes through tubes and Cooling water 20. In a regenerative cycle, feed water is heated by
surrounds them (a) Exhaust gas (b) Drained steam from turbine
(c) Steam and cooling water mis (c) Heaters (d) All of the above
(d) Steam and cooling water do not mix

14. Feedwater heaters are of two types, they are

(a) natural and forced
(b) saturated and non saturated
(c) open and close
(d) water driven and steam driven

15. What is the effect of increase in pressure at which heat

is added on the pump work in the Rankine cycle? Qu
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
(a) the pump work increases with increase in pressure of e.
An
heat addition
s.
(b) the pump work decreases with increase in pressure of Qu
heat addition 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
e.
(c) the pump work does not change with increase in An
pressure of heat addition s.
(d) the pump work either increases or decreases with
increase in pressure of heat addition

16. At ideal condition of vapour power cycle, reversible

constant pressure heat rejection is carried out at
(a) boiler
(b) turbine
(c) condenser
(d) feed pump

17. 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.

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