STEAM ENGINE PRACTICE PROBLEMS

1. Steam is admitted to the cylinder of an engine in such a manner the average pressure is 120 psi. The diameter of the
piston is 10 in. and the length of stroke is 12 in. What is the Hp of the engine when it is making 300 rpm?

2. The area of an indicator card taken off the high pressure cylinder of a quadruple expansion engine is 1445 mm 2, the
length is 80 mm, and 1 mm of height represents 0.27 bar. The bore of the cylinder runs at 1.65 rev/sec. Calculate the
total indicated power of the engine assuming equal powers are developed in all cylinders. Note: length of stroke 1050
mm and diameter and diameter of 600 mm.

3. During a test on a single-cylinder steam engine, the mean effective pressure was 405 kPa when running at 3 rev/sec.
The brake load was 1.9 kN acting at an effective radius of 1.2 m. If the cylinder diameter is 0.275 m and the stroke is 0.4
m, calculate the mechanical efficiency.

4. A steam engine has an indicated efficiency of 65%. The enthalpies of the engine at the entrance and exit are 3000
kJ/kg and3500 kJ/kg respectively. If the mechanical efficiency is 85% and the steam consumption is 1000 kg/hr, what is
the brake power of the engine?

5. Steam at 7.5 bar is admitted to an engine cylinder and cut-off at 0.34 of the stroke. The back pressure is 1.7 bar.
Neglecting clearance, calculate the hypothetical mean gross pressure and mean effective pressure.

6. Steam is supplied to the cylinder of an engine at 8.3 bar and cut-off takes place when the piston has traveled 0.45 of
its stroke. The clearance volume is equal to 5% of the stroke volume. If the back pressure is 2.4 bar, calculate the actual
mean effective pressure taking a diagram factor of 0.72.

7. The mean effective pressure of an engine running at 300 rpm is 500 kPa. What is the indicated power if the engine has
bore of 250 mm x 450 mm.

8. The cylinders of a triple expansion engine are 600, 950 and 1500 mm diameter and the stroke is 1050 mm. When
running at 1.8 rev/s, the mean effective pressures in the cylinders are 517, 207 and 83 kPa respectively. Calculate the
total indicated power of the engine.

9. Steam at 1.5 MPa, 300 °C is supplied to an engine and exhaust at 0.014 MPa. The consumption of steam is 28,500
kg/hr when the indicated power is 3000 kW. Calculate the steam consumption in kg/kW-hr and the indicated thermal
efficiency.

10. A steam engine delivers 1000 kg/hr steam. The enthalpies at the entrance and exit of the engine are 3000 kJ/kg and
400 kJ/kg respectively. Calculate the brake power of the engine if the brake thermal efficiency is 20%.

11. An engine is supplied with steam at a pressure 1.5 MPa and temperature 250 °C, and pressure of the exhaust is 0.016
MPa. Assuming isentropic expansion, find the dryness fraction of the steam after expansion.

12. A double acting steam engine with bore and stroke of 250 mm x 450 mm rotates at 250 rpm. If the mean effective
pressure is 400 kPa, what is the indicated power developed in the cylinder?

13. In a test laboratory, it was found out that of the 80 BHP developed by the engine on tst, 45 Hp are absorbed by the
cooling water that is pumped through the water jacket and the radiator. The water enters the top of the radiator at 200
°F. At the temperature, enthalpy of water is 168.07 BTU/lb. Water leaves the bottom of the radiator at 190 °F and with
an enthalpy of 158.03 BTU/lb. What is the water flow rate for steady-state operation?

14. An industrial power plant requires 1.5 kg of dry saturated steam per second at 165°C for heating purposes. This
steam may be supplied from an extraction turbine which receives steam at 4 MPa and 380°C and is exhaust to a
condenser at the rate of 0.80 kg steam per second at 0.0034 MPa while rejecting 1400 kW to the cooling water. If the
mechanical-electrical efficiency is 95% and that the heat loss in the turbine casing is 10 kW, calculate the power
generated by the plant.
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15. Steam enters a turbine stage with an enthalpy of 3628 kJ/kg at 70 m/s and leaves the same stage with an enthalpy of
2846 kJ/kg and a velocity of 124 m/s. Calculate the power if there are 5 kg/s of steam admitted at the turbine throttle?

18. Steam with an enthalpy of 800 kCal/kg enters a nozzle at a velocity of 80 m/s. Find the velocity of the steam at the
exit of the nozzle if its enthalpy is reduced to 750 kCal/kg, assuming the nozzle is horizontal and disregarding heat losses.
Take g = 9.81 m/s2 and J constant = 427 kg/mKcal.

19. Steam is expanded through a nozzle and the enthalpy drop per kg of steam from the initial pressure to the final pressure is
60 kJ. Neglecting friction, find the velocity of discharge and the exit area of the nozzle to pass 0.20 kg/s if the specific volume if
the steam at exit is 1.5 m3/kg.

20. The entrance and exit enthalpies of a steam turbine are 4000 and 3000 kJ/kg respectively. What is the mass of steam
entering the turbine if the generator power is 3 MW and generator efficiency is 90%.

21. Dry saturated steam at 8 bar (0.8 MPa) is expanded in turbine nozzles to a pressure of 5 bar 0.97 dry. Find the velocity at
exit. If the are at the exit is 14.5 cm2, find the mass flow of the steam in kg/s.

22. A steam turbine has an entrance enthalpy of 3000 kJ/kg and an exit enthalpy of 2000 kJ/kg. What is the stage efficiency if
the actual enthalpy after isentropic expansion is 2,200 kJ/kg?

23. In a Rankine cycle, steam turbine with exhaust enthalpy of 2500 kJ/kg delivers 0.50 kg/s of steam. If the exit enthalpy of
the condenser is 500 kJ/kg, what is the heat rejected?

25. Steam enters the turbine at the rate of 11,000 kg/hr with the enthalpies of 3000 kJ/kg and 1000 kJ/kg at the entrance and
exhaust respectively. Steam is extracted from the turbine at 3500 kg/hr for heating purposes with enthalpy of 2700 kJ/kg.
Calculate the turbine work.

26. After checking on the properties and phase descriptions of water, the quality is found to be x = 0.70. How many percent of the
mass is in the liquid phase?

27. An engine requires 4300 kg of dry steam per hour. The quality of steam is 90%. What must be the weight of the steam?

28. The pressure and temperature entering the turbine are 1800 kPa and 380 °C. The pressure leaving the turbine is 20 kPa.
The quality of the steam entering the condenser is 90%. What is the turbine work?

29. A 6 MW steam turbine generator power plant has a full - load steam rate of 8kg/kW-hr. Assuming that no-load
steam consumption as 15% of the full - load steam consumption, compute for the hourly steam consumption at 75%
load, in kg/hr.

30. A 4 kg air enters a turbine with enthalpy of 600kJ and velocity of 250 m/s. The enthalpy at exit is 486 kJ and
velocity of 170 m/s. What is the work developed if there is a heat loss of 10 kJ?