Blue book terms part 2

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 A cycle typically used in paper mills, textile
mills, chemical factories, sugar factories and
rice mills
a. Cogeneration cycle
b. Combined cycles
c. By-products cycle
d. Cascading cycle
 When process steam is basic need and power
is byproduct, this cycle is known as
a. Cogeneration cycle
b. Combined cycle
c. By-product cycle
d. Cascading cycle
 A type of turbine employed where steam
continuously extracted for process heating
a. Back-pressure turbine
b. Gas turbine
c. Steam turbine
d. Passout turbine
 Which of the following is used for binary cycle
power generation for high temperature
application?
a. Mercury
b. Sodium
c. Potassium
d. All of these
 Critical temperature of mercury is
a. 1160 c
b. 1260 c
c. 1360 c
d. 1460 c
 Critical pressure of mercury is
a. 100 MPa
b. 108 Mpa
c. 128 Mpa
d. 158 MPa
 Method used in converting heat directly to
electricity by magnetism
a. Electromagnetic induction
b. Magnetodynamic
c. Magnetohydrodynamic
d. Thermoelectric
 Which of the following is not a material used
for thermoelectric elements
a. Bismuth telluride
b. Lead telluride
c. Zinc telluride
d. Germanium
 a type of coal formed after anthracite
a. Lignite
b. Bituminous
c. Peat
d. Graphite
 Which of the following is lowest grade of
coal?
a. Peat
b. Lignite
c. Sub- bituminous
d. Bituminous
 which of the following helps in the ignition of
coal?
a. Moisture
b. Ash
c. Fixed carbon
d. Volatile matter
 Is the ratio of fixed carbon and volatile
matter.
a. Air-fuel ratio
b. Fuel ratio
c. Combustion ratio
d. Carbon-volatile ratio
 A suspension of a finely divide fluid in
another.
a. Filtration
b. Floatation
c. Emulsion
d. Separation
 Contains 90% gasoline and 10% ethanol.
a. Gasohol
b. Gasonol
c. Gasothanol
d. Gasethanol
 Process used commercially in coal liquefaction.
a. Tropsch process
b. Fisher process
c. Fisher-tropsch process
d. Mitch-tropsch process
 Is an organic matter produced by plants in
both land and water.
a. Bio-ethanol
b. Biomass
c. Petroleum
d. Biogradable
 In thermal power plant, induced draft fans
are located at the
a. Exit of furnace
b. Foot of the stack
c. Above the stock
d. Top of the stack
 Known as drum less boiler.
a. La Mont boiler
b. Fire tube boiler
c. Force circulation boiler
d. Once-through boiler
 Reduces the steam temperature by spraying
low temperature water from boiler drum.
a. Reheater
b. Preheater
c. Desuperheater
d. Superheater
 Carbon dioxide can be removed by:
a. Deaeration
b. Aeration
c. Evaporation
d. Vaporization
 Is often used to absorb silica from water.
a. Sorbent
b. Rectifier
c. Silica gel
d. Magnesium hydroxide
 Presence of excess hydrogen ions makes the
water
a. Acidic
b. Alkalinity
c. Base
d. Hydroxicity
 PH of water varies with
a. Pressure
b. Temperature
c. Density
d. Volume
 Ph value of ______ is usually maintained for
boiler water to minimized corrosion.
a. 8.5
b. 9.5
c. 10.5
d. 11.5
 What type of turbine that has a degree of
reaction of ½?
a. Impulse turbine
b. Reaction turbine
c. Rarsons turbine
d. Deriaz turbine
 Tranquil flow must always occur
a. Above the normal depth
b. Above the critical depth
c. Below the normal depth
d. Below the critical depth
 Which of the following head loss coefficient
among the following types of entrance?
a. Bell mouth
b. Square edge
c. Reentrant
d. It depends
 What waste treatment method involves of
algae from stabilization pond effluents?
a. Sedimentation
b. Floatation
c. Filtration
d. Microscreening
 The number of nozzles will depend on the
quantity of steam required by the turbine. If
nozzles occupy the entire arc of the ring, the
turbine is said to have:
a. Partially full peripheral admission
b. One-half peripheral admission
c. Maximum peripheral admission
d. Full peripheral admission
 Tandem compound units may also have two
low-pressure castings that produces:
a. Single flow
b. Double flow
c. Triple flow
d. Quadruple flow
 A type of turbine used for driving pumps,
fans, and other auxiliaries in power plant
commonly operate at exhaust pressure
approximating atmospheric.
a. Tandem compound turbine
b. Passout turbine
c. Cross-compound turbine
d. Back pressure turbine
 A governor with 0% regulation is termed as:
a. Isochronous governor
b. Synchronous governor
c. Isenchronous governor
d. Isobarnous governor
 The speed regulation for most turbine-
generators is adjustable from:
a. 2 to 6%
b. 4 to 8%
c. 6 to 10%
d. 8 to 12%
 Poppet valves of steam turbine are used for
extraction pressure of:
a. 20 to 120 psig
b. 20 to 150 psig
c. 20 to 130 psig
d. 20 to 140 psig
 When both bearings of steam engines are on
one side of the of the connecting rod, the
engine is referred to as:
a. Center-crank engine
b. Side crank engine
c. Under crank engine
d. Standard crank engine
 When the valve in steam engine is in mid-
position of its travel, it will cover the steam
port by an amount known
a. Steam lap
b. Partial lap
c. Full lap
d. Angular lap
 A type of governor in steam engine that do
not control the actual admission of steam to
the cylinder but controls the pressure of the
steam.
a. Flyball governor
b. Variable cut-off governor
c. Throttling governor
d. Shaft governor
 By inter-cooling using two stage compressor
of Brayton cycle, the backwork ratio will:
a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Remains constant
d. None of these
 On dynamic similitude, the relation which
represents the ratio of inertia force to
pressure force is:
a. Froude number
b. Cauchy number
c. Euler number
d. Reynolds number
 What is the maximum velocity in a sewer
flowing full?
a. 0.6 m/sec
b. 0.9 m/sec
c. 1.2 m/sec
d. 1.8 m/sec
 A temporary structure constructed to exclude
water from the side of the foundation during
its excavation and construction is called.
a. Calsson
b. Retaining wall
c. Coffer dam
d. Earth dam
 Which is not a physical characteristic of water?
a. Total suspended and dissolve solids
b. Tubidity
c. Color
d. Hardness
 Which dam is best for weak foundation?
a. Gravity
b. Arch
c. Buttress
d. Earth
 What is the volume of water which will drain
freely from the aquifer?
a. Specific yield
b. Reservoir yield
c. Safe yield
d. Secondary yield
 What is the line defined by the water level in
a group of artesian wells?
a. Water table
b. Peizometric surface
c. Specific yield
d. All of the above
 Select the one that is a positive indication of
pollution of a river.
a. Acidity
b. Oxygen content
c. Chloride content
d. Nitrite content
 The cooling water is made to fall in series of
baffles to expose large surface area for steam
led from below to come in direct contact.
a. Spray condenser
b. Surface condenser
c. Jet condenser
d. Barometric condenser
 Show the variation of river flow (discharge)
with time
a. Hydrograph
b. Hyctograph
c. Mass curve
d. Flow duration curve
 Is an open channel erected on a surface
above the ground.
a. Canal
b. Tunnel
c. Pentstock
d. Flume
 Type of turbine used up to 300 m head
a. Impulse turbine
b. Francis turbine
c. Propeller turbine
d. Deriaz turbine
 A turbine that has a diagonal flow
a. Impulse turbine
b. Francis turbine
c. Propeller turbine
d. Deriaz turbine
 Oil is atomized either by air blast or pressure
jet at about
a. 60 bar
b. 70 bar
c. 80 bar
d. 90 bar
 Type of solid injection that use single pump
supplies fuel under high pressure to a fuel
header.
a. Common rail injection
b. Individual pump injection system
c. Distributor system
d. Single rail injection
 Water flow in diesel engine that is caused by
density differential.
a. Thermosiphon cooling
b. Thermostat cooling
c. Pressure water cooling
d. Evaporative cooling
 Type of lubrication system in diesel engine in
which oil from pump is carried to a separate
storage tank outside the engine cylinder and
used for high capacity engine.
a. Mist lubrication system
b. Wet sump lubrication
c. Splash system
d. Dry sump lubrication system
 Produces extreme pressure differentials and
violent gas vibration.
a. Vibration
b. Detonation
c. Explosion
d. Knocking
 In a spark ignition engine, detonation occurs
near the ___________.
a. End of combustion
b. Middle combustion
c. Beginning of combustion
d. Beginning of interaction
 In a compression ignition engine, the
detonation occurs near the ________.
a. End of combustion
b. Middle of combustion
c. Beginning of combustion
d. Beginning of interaction
 Morse test is use to measure the _______ of
multi-cylinder engine.
a. Break power
b. Indicated power
c. Friction power
d. Motor power
 Ignition delay can be minimized by adding
_________ to decrease engine knocking.
a. Ethel ether
b. Ethyl chloride
c. Ethyl nitrate
d. Ethyl oxide
 for the submerge plane surface, the point on
the surface where the resultant force acts is
called the
a. Center of buoyancy
b. Center of gravity
c. Center of pressure
d. Center of attraction
 At any point in fluid at rest, the pressure is
the same in all directions. This principle is
known as:
a. Bernoulli principle
b. Archimedes principle
c. Pascal’s law
d. Torricelli’s law
 The hot-wire manometer is used to measure
a. Pressure in gasses
b. Pressure in fluids
c. Wind velocities at airports
d. Gas velocities
 The pitot static tube measures
a. The static pressure
b. The gage pressure
c. The total pressure
d. The dynamic pressure
 The terminal velocity of a small sphere
setting in a viscous fluid varies as the
a. First power of its diameter
b. Inverse of fluid viscosity
c. Inverse square of the diameter
d. Inverse of the diameter
 Pressure drag results from
a. Skin friction
b. Deformation drag
c. Breakdown of potential flow near the
forward stagnation point
d. Occurrences of wake
 The pressure coefficient is the ratio of
pressure forces to:
a. Viscous forces
b. Inertia forces
c. Gravity forces
d. Surface tension force
Answer: Secret
 Which instruments is used to measure
humidity of the atmosphere continuously?
a. Barograph
b. Thermograph
c. Hydrograph
d. Thermo-hydrograph
 Entrance losses between tank and pipe or
losses through elbows, fittings and valves are
generally expresses as a function of
a. Kinetic energy
b. Pipe diameter
c. Friction factor
d. Volume flow rate
 The air that contains no water vapor is called
a. Zero air
b. Saturated air
c. Dry air
d. Humid air
 In psychrometric chart, the constant-
enthalpy lines coincide with constant-
temperature lines at temperature
a. Above 50⁰C
b. Below 40⁰C
c. Below 50⁰C
d. Above 10⁰C
 The amount of moisture in air depend on its
a. Pressure
b. Volume
c. Temperature
d. Humidity
 The deep body temperature of healthy
person is maintained constant at
a. 27⁰C
b. 37⁰C
c. 47⁰C
d. 48⁰C
 Air motion also plays important role in
a. Surroundings
b. Cooling
c. Human comfort
d. None of these
 During simple heating and cooling process
has a ____ humidity ratio
a. Increasing
b. Decreasing
c. Constant
d. None of these
 The _____ follows a line of constant wet-bulb
temperature on the psychrometric chart.
a. Evaporative cooling process
b. Condensive cooling process
c. Direct cooling process
d. None of these
 A vapor which is not about to condensate is
called a
A. mixture of vapor and liquid
B. critical vapor
C. Superheated vapor
D. None of these
 Passing from the solid phase directly into
vapor phase is called
a. Condensation
b. Fusion
c. Sublimation
d. None of these
 Robert Boyle observed during his
experiments with a vacuum chamber that the
pressure of gases is inversely proportional to
their
a. Temperature
b. Pressure
c. Volume
d. None of these
 ____ is energy in transition
a. Heat
b. Work
c. Power
d. None of these
 Is the mode of energy transfer between a
solid surface and the adjacent liquid or gas
which is in motion, and it involves combine
effects of conduction and fluid motion.
a. Conduction
b. Convection
c. Radiation
d. None of these
 Radiation is usually considered as
a. Surface phenomenon
b. Surface interaction
c. Surface corrosion
d. None of these
 Work is ____ between the system and the
surroundings.
a. Work interaction
b. Energy interaction
c. Heat interaction
d. None of these
 Is a process during which the system remains
in equilibrium at all times
a. Quasi-equilibrium
b. Static equilibrium
c. Dynamic equilibrium
d. None of these
 In the absence of any work interactions
between a system and its surroundings , the
amount of net heat transfer is equal
a. The change in total energy of a closed
system
b. To heat and work
c. Energy interactions
d. none of these
 The constant volume and constant pressure
specific heats are identical for
a. compressible substance
b. incompressible substance
c. compressible gas
d. none of these
 The velocity of fluid is zero at wall aand
maximum at the center because of the
a. velocity effect
b. viscous effect
c. temperature effect
d. none of these
 For steady flow devices, the volume of the
control volume is
a. increase
b. decrease
c. constant
d. none of these
 Work done in turbine is ____ since it is done
by the fluid.
a. Positive
b. Negative
c. Zero
d. None of these
 Reheating process in Brayton cycle, the
turbine work will
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Remains the same
D. None of these
 Which of the following is the chemical
formula of ethanol?
A. C7H16
B. C2H6O
C. C7H8
D. C6H12
 Which of the following is the chemical
formula of heptane?
A. C7H16
B. C2H6O
C. C7H8
D. C6H12
 Which of the following is the chemical
formula of hexene?
A. C7H16
B. C2H6O
C. C7H8
D. C6H12
 Which of the following is the chemical
formula of toluene?
A. C7H16
B. C2H6O
C. C7H8
D. C6H12
 As the air passes through a nozzle, which of
the following will increase?
A. Temperature
B. Enthalpy
C. Internal energy
D. Mach number
 As the air passes through a diffuser, which of
the following will decrease?
A. Temperature
B. Enthalpy
C. Internal energy
D. Mach number
 As the air passes through a nozzle, which of
the following will decrease?
A. Temperature
B. Enthalpy
C. Internal energy
D. Mach number
 As the air passes through a diffuser, which of
the following will increase?
A. Density
B. Entropy
C. Mach number
D. Velocity
 As the air passes through a diffuser, which of
the following will NOT be affected?
A. Density
B. Entropy
C. Mach number
D. Velocity