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Department of Mechanical Engineering
SUB CODE / NAME: ME6016/ ADVANCED IC ENGINES
MULTI CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Scavenging is usually done to increase
a. Thermal Efficiency
b. Speed
c. Power output
d. Fuel consumption
2. Which of the following medium is compressed in a Diesel Engine cylinder?
a. Air alone
b. Air and Fuel
c. Air and Lub oil
d. Fuel alone
3. The thermodynamic cycle on which the petrol engine works is
a. Otto cycle
b. Joule cycle
c. Rankine cycle
d. Stirling cycle
4. The flame propagation velocities range from
a. 10 to 15 m/s
b. 15 to 75 m/s
c. 20 to 80 m/s
d. 30 to 90 m/s
5. In SI engine, ignition lag is reduced if the initial temperature and pressure are
a. Decreased
b. Increased
c. Constant
d. None of the above
6. A spark plug gap is kept from
a. 0.3-0.7mm
b. 0.2-0.8mm
c. 0.4-0.9mm
d. 0.6-1.0mm
7. The air standard efficiency of an I.C. engine depends on
a. Fuel used
b. Speed of engine
c. Compression ratio
d. None of the above
8. Stoichiometric air-fuel ratio of petrol is roughly
a. 50:1
b. 25:1
c. 15:1
d. 1:1
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9. Lean air mixture is required during
a. Idling
b. Starting
c. Acceleration
d. Cruising
10. For maximum thermal efficiency, the air fuel mixture in SI engine should be
a. Lean
b. Rich
c. Stochiometric
d. May be rich or lean
11. The most accurate gasoline injection system is
a. Direct injection
b. Port injection
c. Throttle body injection
d. Manifold injection
12. Advantage of fuel injection system in SI engine is
a. Low initial cost
b. Low maintenance requirements
c. Increased volumetric efficiency
d. None of the above
13. The cold start injector
a. Maintain stoichiometric air-fuel ratio
b. Provide lean air-fuel ratio
c. Gives rich air-fuel ratio
d. None of the above
14. ECU is an electronic injection system used for
a. Calculating appropriate injection timing
b. Meeting only certain operating conditions
c. Closing the injection valve only
d. None of the above
15. Increasing the compression ratio in SI engines the knocking tendency
a. Decreases
b. Increases
c. Not affected
d. None of the above
16. Detonation in SI engines occur due to
a. Preignition of the charge before the spark
b. Sudden ignition of the charge before the spark
c. Autoignition of the charge after spark is struck
d. None of the above
17. Desirable characteristics of the combustion chamber for SI engines to avoid knock is
a. Small bore
b. Short ratio of flame path to bore
c. Absence of hot surface in the last region of the charge
d. All of the above
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18. With increase in compression ratio flame speed
a. Increases
b. Decreases
c. Remains the same
d. None of the above
19. In SI engine flame speed increases
a. With turbulence
b. With fuel-air ratio
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of the above
20. Decreasing the cooling water temperature in SI engine the knocking tendency
a. Increases
b. Decreases
c. Not affected
d. None of the above
21. The inventor of CI engine is
a. Henry Ford
b. Nikolaus Otto
c. Karl Benz
d. Rudolph Diesel
22. The followings is CI engine
a. Petrol engine
b. Diesel engine
c. Gas engine
d. None of the above
23. Which of the followings are not the component of a CI engine
a) Spark Plug
b) Fuel Injector
c) Piston
d) Crankshaft and Connecting rod
24. In CI engine Heat is supplied at
a) Constant Volume
b) Constant Pressure
c) Constant Temperature
d) None of the above
25. Fuel injection system is the system which injects fuel into the combustion chamber of a diesel engine
when the piston reaches near
a) TDC
b) BDC
c) In between TDC and BDC
d) Any of the above
26. Following is the correct order in which fuel is injected
a) Fuel tank –Fuel feed pump– Fuel filter – Fuel injection pump – injector
b) Fuel tank – Fuel injection pump –Fuel feed pump– Fuel filter– injector
c) Fuel tank – Fuel filter – Fuel feed pump – Fuel injection pump – injector
d) Fuel tank– Fuel filter – Fuel injection pump–Fuel feed pump – injector
27. In Compression Ignition engine,the compression ratio is
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a) Swept Volume / Cylinder Volume
b) Clearance Volume / Cylinder Volume
c) Cylinder Volume / Swept Volume
d) Cylinder Volume / Clearance Volume
28. The compression ratio in a CI engine is generally In the range of
a) 8 to 13
b) 14 to 23
c) 20 to 25
d) 25 to 32
29. Rate of burning in the CI engine can be controlled by
a) Rate of Injection of Fuel
b) Both a and c
c) Rate of air taken in to carburetor
d) None of the above
30. Combustion in the CI engine is
a) Laminar
b) Homogeneous
c) Turbulent
d) Heterogeneous

31. The probability of knocking in diesel engines is increased by

a) High self-ignition temperature.
b) Low volatility.
c) High viscosity.
d) All of the above
32. The thermal efficiency of a diesel engine is of the order of
a) 92%
b) 68%
c) 34%
d) 25%
33. The process of breaking up a liquid into fine droplets by spraying is called
a) vaporization
b) carburetion
c) injection
d) atomization
34. Anti-knock for compression ignition engines is
a) napthene
b) tetra ethyl lead
c) amyl nitrate
d) hexadecane
35. The output of a diesel engine can be increased without increasing the engine speed or size in the
following way
a) feeding more fuel
b) increasing the flywheel size
c) heating intake air
d) supercharging
36. Specific fuel consumption in indirect injection type combustion chamber
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a) high
b) low
c) medium
d) optimum
37. A Carburetor can be found in
a) SI engines only
b) CI engines only
c) Steam engines only
d) All IC engines

38. For better dispersion of fuel in the combustion chamber, we need -------------- injection pressure and ------
-------- density of compressed air.
a) higher, higher
b) higher, lower
c) lower, lower
d) lower, higher
39. For avoiding the ignition delay in the CI engine, engine should have
a) Higher percentage of cetane quantity in fuel
b) Higher temperature of chamber
c) Higher amount of oxygen
d) all of the above
40. In compression ignition engines, swirl denotes a
a) Haphazard motion of the gases in the chamber
b) Rotary motion of the gases in the chamber
c) Radial motion of the gases in the chamber
d) None of the above

41. Which of the following is one of the major exhaust emissions from CI engines compared to SI engines?
a. Oxides of nitrogen
b. Particulates
c. CO and CO2
d. Unburnt hydrocarbon
42. Which of the following causes the photochemical smog?
a. Excess O2
b. CO and CO2
c. Soot and particulate matter
d. NOx and HC
43. What does the blue smoke in diesel engine indicate?
a. Unburnt oil
b. HC
c. NOx
d. CO
44. During which condition of the vehicle does NOx emission in SI engine will be lowest?
a. Cruising
b. Idling
c. Accelerating
d. Decelerating
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45. For what purpose is the Rhodium used?
a. To reduce CO and HC
b. To reduce NOx
c. To reduce CO
d. To reduce HC
46. Why is the fumigation technique used?
a. To control HC
b. To control NOx
c. To control CO
d. To control smoke
47. Why are lead compounds added in petrol?
a. Reduce knocking
b. Reduce HC emission
c. Reduce exhaust temperature
d. Increase power output
48. Which of the following cannot be reduced by thermal converters?
a. CO
b. HC
c. Soot
d. NOx
49. What can be reduced by using exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) effectively?
a. CO
b. NOx
c. HC
d. CO and HC
50. A single soot particle may contain up to how many carbon spheres
a. 600
b. 5000
c. 6000
d. 8000
51. As per BS-VI, which are the emissions standards for four-wheel petrol motor vehicles?
a. 0.0045 g/km PM and 0.08 g/km NOx0.0045 gkm PM and 0.08 gkm NOx
b. 0.0045 g/km PM and 0.98 g/km NOx0.0045 gkm PM and 0.98 gkm NOx
c. 0.045 g/km PM and 0.98 g/km NOx0.045 gkm PM and 0.98 gkm NOx
d. 0.045 g/km PM and 0.9 g/km NOx0.045 gkm PM and 0.9 gkm NOx
52. Catalytic converters are used to reduce the concentration of..............in the exhaust.
a. COCO
b. HCHC
c. NOxNOx
d. CO, HC and NOx
53. Why lead compounds added in petrol?
a. Increase power output
b. Reduce knocking
c. Reduce exhaust temperature
d. Reduce HC emission
54. Which of the following does not relate to a spark ignition engine?
a. Ignition coil
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b. Spark plug
c. Carburettor
d. Fuel injector
55. As a result of detonation in an I.C. engine, following parameter attains very high value
a. Peak pressure
b. Rate of rise of pressure
c. Rate of rise of temperature
d. Peak temperature
56. The accumulation of carbon in a cylinder results in increase of
a. Clearance volume
b. Volumetric efficiency
c. Ignition time
d. Effective compression ratio
57. Which of the following is false statement? Some of the methods used to reduce diesel smoke are as
follows
a. Using additives in the fuel
b. Increasing the compression ratio
c. Adherence to proper fuel specification
d. Avoidance of overloading
58. The colour of exhaust from diesel engine is generally
a. White
b. Bluish
c. Black
d. Violet
59. The purpose of testing an internal combustion engine is
a. To determine the information, which cannot be obtained by calculations
b. To conform the data used in design, the validity of which may be doubtful
c. To satisfy the customer regarding the performance of the engine
d. All of the above
60. It the temperature of intake air in IC engines is lowered, then its efficiency will
a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Remain same
d. Increase up to certain limit and then decrease
61. Advantage of gaseous fuel is that
e. it can be stored easily
f. it can mix easily with air
g. it can displace more air from the engine
h. all of the mentioned
62. Paraffins are generally represented by
a. CnHn
b. CnH2n
c. CnH2n+2
d. CnH2n-6
63. Paraffins have molecular structure of
e. chain saturated
f. chain unsaturated
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g. ring saturated
h. ring unsaturated
64. Olefins are generally represented by
a. CnHn
b. CnH2n
c. CnH2n+2
d. CnH2n-6
65. Hydrocarbons are decomposed into smaller hydrocarbons by
a. Reforming
b. refining
c. cracking
d. polymerization
66. The molecular structure of the straight-run gasoline is changed by
a. Reforming
b. Refining
c. Cracking
d. boiling
67. For S.I. engines fuel most preferred are
a. Aromatics
b. Paraffins
c. Olefins
d. Napthenes
68. For C.I. engines fuel most preferred are
a. Aromatics
b. Paraffins
c. Olefins
d. Napthenes
69. In spark ignition engines, the knocking tendency can be decreased by
a. decreasing compression ratio
b. controlling intake throttle
c. controlling ignition timing
d. adding dopes like tetraethyl lead and ethylene dibromide
70. Detonation in petrol engines can be suppressed or reduced by the addition of small quantity of
a. lead nitrate
b. iso-octane
c. n-heptane
d. none of the mentioned
71. What is E85?
a. Ethanol – gasoline blend
b. Biodiesel – gasoline blend
c. Methanol – gasoline blend
d. LPG – CNG blend
72. Ethanol is most commonly used to increase ______ and improve the emissions quality of gasoline.
a. Pentane number
b. Flash point
c. Octane number
d. Fire point
73. Neat biodiesel reduces carbon dioxide emissions by more than ____% over petroleum diesel.
a. 45
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b. 55
c. 65
d. 75
74. Using biodiesel in a conventional diesel engine substantially reduces emissions of _______.
a. Unburned hydrocarbon
b. carbon monoxide
c. sulfates
d. all of the above
75. Benefits of Hydrogen as an alternative fuel are?
a. Stronger national energy security
b. Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of the above
76. CNG is considered as best alternative fuel for motor vehicles because________.
a. Low hydrocarbon emissions
b. cheap
c. Better efficiency
d. better engine life
e. All of the above
77. CNG has ______% methane.
a. 20-30
b. 30-50
c. 50-70
d. 70-90
78. Major advantage of LPG over CNG is?
a. stored as liquid
b. High pressure tanks not required
c. Both (i) and (ii)
d. None of the above
79. Hydrogen fuel cells, biodiesel and long term electric batteries are potential solutions to
a. reducing carbon emissions from cars and trucks
b. carbon sequestration
c. cap-and-trade emission control
d. replacing coal as a major fuel for generating electricity
e. cutting back the carbon emissions from hydroelectric plants
f. all of the above
80. Which statement is incorrect about ethanol (EtOH)?
a. Hydrogen bonding occurs between EtOH molecules in neat EtOH.
b. Ethanol is miscible with water.
c. The OH group in EtOH is hydrophobic.
d. Hydrogen bonding occurs between EtOH and H2O molecules in aqueous EtOH.
81. Modern CRDI engines uses injection pressure of the order of
a) 400 bar
b) 1600 bar
c) 800 bar
d) 1200 bar
82. HCCI combustion is similar to
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a) Wankel Engine
b) CI engine
c) SI engine
d) Hybrid of both SI and CI engine
83. CRDI
a) Helps in saving fuel
b) Improves fuel atomization
c) Increases the controllability
d) All of the above
84. HCCI engines
a) Have large power range
b) Efficiency is comparatively less
c) Pre-catalyst hydrocarbon emissions are higher
d) Emits high NOx and soot
85. What is the expansion of CRDI
a) Common Rail Direct Injection
b) Common Rate Diesel Injection
c) Centrifugal Rail Diesel Injection
d) None of the above
86. What are the types of HEV
a) Series
b) Parallel
c) Series-parallel
d) All of the above
87. The gasoline engines used on HEV run on -------- cycle to improve thermal efficiency with large
reduction in pumping losses.
a) Atkinson
b) Otto
c) Diesel
d) Dual
88. The diesel hybrids produce up to ----- less CO2 than the gasoline engines and ---- to -----% less than the
diesel engines
a) 60% & 40 to 50%
b) 50% & 30 to 35%
c) 40% & 20 to 25%
d) 20% & 50 to 55%
89. NOx adsorber systems can be classified as
a) Active NOx adsorbers
b) Passive NOx adsorbers
c) SCR adsorbers
d) Both (a) and (b)
90. Diesel has a higher exhaust gas temperature than gasoline
a) True
b) False
91. What is matching in turbo charger
a) Making sure the engine and turbo work together nicely
b) Comparing the performance of different turbochargers
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c) Maximizing the efficiency of the turbo
d) None of the above
92. What is the purpose of using oil in the turbocharger?
a) It is lubricant for the bearings
b) Cooling
c) Both
d) Only a
93. What is the advantage of using a twin-scroll turbo over a single scroll?
a) It provides a more constant feed of air/energy to the wheel, making the turbo more efficient
b) Two is always better than 1
c) It allows for boosting over a larger range of engine speeds
d) none of the above
94. What does VGT mean?
a) Very Good turbocharger
b) Versatile Geometry turbocharger
c) Variable Geometry turbocharger
d) Volume Generating turbocharger
95. The concept of a VG is based on taking the benefit of
a) Two big turbochargers, achieving big pressure ratio.
b) Combination of big and small turbocharger in one, achieving fast turbocharger reaction time, along
with achieving relative high flow capacity.
c) Two small turbochargers, achieving fast turbocharger reaction time whilst remaining desired pressure
ratio.
d) Combination of big and small turbocharger, increasing both pressure ratio and maximum flow
capacity.
96. What does OBD mean?
a) On-board diagnostics
b) Over-board diagnostics
c) All-board diagnostics
d) Upper-board diagnostics
97. In air assisted combustion fuel pressure is more than air pressure.
a) True
b) False
98. OBD systems give the vehicle owner or repair technician access to the status of the various -----------
a) Engine features
b) vehicle sub-systems
c) electronics components
d) All of the above
99. HCCI provides efficiency as high as ----Engines and Ultra-low---- and ---- emissions.
a) SI, CO and NOx
b) CI, NOx and PM
c) SI, HC and CO
d) CI, HC and NOx
100. Common rail diesel Injection now feature ---------- injectors for increased precision.
a) Mechanical
b) piezoelectric
c) MPFI
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d) None of the above

Answer key
1.c 2.a 3.a 4.a 5.a 6.a 7.c 8.c 9.d 10.a
11.b 12.c 13.c 14.a 15.b 16.c 17.d 18.a 19.c 20.b
21.d 22.b 23.a 24.b 25.a 26.c 27.d 28.b 29.a 30.d
31.d 32.c 33.d 34.c 35.d 36.a 37.a 38.a 39.d 40.b
41.b 42.d 43.a 44.b 45.b 46.d 47.b 48.d 49.b 50.b
51.a 52.d 53.d 54.d 55.b 56.d 57.b 58.c 59.d 60.a
61.b 62.c 63.a 64.a 65.c 66.a 67.a 68.b 69.d 70.a
71.a 72c 73.d 74.d 75.c 76.e 77.d 78.c 79.f 80.c
81.d 82.d 83.d 84.c 85.a 86.d 87.a 88.b 89.d 90.b
91.a 92.c 93.a 94.c 95.b 96.a 97.b 98.b 99.b 100.b