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Power Plant Engineering (PPE) | Set 1

1. Rankine cycle efficiency of a good Steam

Correct : B. 35 to 45%

2. A simple Rankine cycle operates the Boiler at 3 MPa with an outlet temperature of 350°C and the Condenser at 50 kPa. Assuming ideal operation and processes, what is the thermal efficiency of this cycle?

Correct : C. 27.7

3. On what basis are fire and water tube boilers are classified?

Correct : D. depending tubular heating surface

4. Cornish boiler is an example of which type of boiler?

Correct : A. fire tube boiler

5. Stirling boiler is an example of which type of boiler?

Correct : D. water tube boiler

6. Which of these is a stationary boiler?

Correct : D. babcock-wilcox boiler

7. Which of these is a mobile boiler?

Correct : C. locomotive boiler

8. Are boilers defined on the basis of heat source.

Correct : A. yes

9. What is the steam pressure limit of natural circulation boilers?

Correct : B. 180bar

10. Which of the given boilers operate above critical pressure?

Correct : C. once-through boilers

11. Which type of boilers are called drum-less boilers?

Correct : C. positive forced circulation boiler

12. Chances of sediments depositing inside the water tubes in the shell is less due to?

Correct : D. high working pressure

13. Out of the given option choose the advantage that supports fire tube boilers?

Correct : C. water circulation is limited inside boiler shell

14. Apart from feedheating, what should a plant have to obtain a gain in thermal efficiency?

Correct : C. reheating cycles

15. Which of the following needs to be incorporated to prevent the low pressure turbine exhaust wetness from being excessive?

Correct : C. double reheat

16. What is the critical point of steam generation in a “once through” boiler?

Correct : D. 221.2 bar

17. In a typical layout of a 215MW reheat power plant, the feed in the boiler is at?

Correct : C. 238 degree centigrade

18. The input to the low pressure feedwater heater is from?

Correct : B. drain cooler

19. The best capable alternative source which can meet the future energy demand is

Correct : B. nuclear power plant

20. How much coal is required to generate energy equivalent to the energy generated by 1 kg of uranium?

Correct : D. 3000 tonnes of high grade coal

21. Nuclear fuel in reactor lasts for

Correct : D. more than 5 years

22. Cost of nuclear fuel in nuclear power plant economics is considered as

Correct : C. capital cost

23. Which of the following are not taken as operation and maintenance cost in economics of nuclear power plant?

Correct : A. taxes and insurance

24. What is the overall efficiency of nuclear power plant?

Correct : C. 30 to 40 %

25. The land area required for installation of nuclear power plant is

Correct : C. equel to thermal power plant

26. All of the nuclear fuel reserve will be ended in about 400 years.

Correct : B. false

27. With respect to the load centre which location is suitable for stablishment of nuclear power plant?

Correct : B. near load centre but at reasonable distance

28. Operating cost of nuclear power plant is less than thermal power plant.

Correct : A. true

29. What is the role of breaker house in coal feeding?

Correct : C. to separate the light dust from the coal

30. Large amount of coal is transported by

Correct : A. railway

31. The coal is fed to the furnace through

Correct : C. hopper

32. What is the function of cyclone separators in pneumatic ash handling system?

Correct : A. to separate the lighter dust particles

33. Which medium is used to carry ash in the pneumatic ash handling system?

Correct : C. air

34. Which system is noisy out of all the following ash handling systems?

Correct : C. pneumatic ash handling system

35. Which medium is used to carry ash in hydraulic system?

Correct : B. water

36. What would be the amount of distance that a low pressure system could carry the ash?

Correct : B. 500m

37. What is the capacity of low pressure hydraulic ash handling system?

Correct : C. 50 tonnes/hour

38. Which of these terms defines the pressure difference in the furnace?

Correct : A. draught

39. 6 DRAUGHT SYSTEM

Correct : A. Δp = gh(ρa-ρg)

40. Which of these is not a type of mechanical draft system for a furnace?

Correct : D. actuated draft

41. Stack heat losses can be minimised by

Correct : B. controlling the excess air

42. Which of these accentuates clinkering trouble on furnace grate burning coal?

Correct : D. all of the mentioned

43. In a furnace employing forced draught compared to induced draught

Correct : C. air is sucked in, so air leaks are more and hence furnace efficiency is reduced

44. Which of the following types of the fans has the highest cost?

Correct : B. axial fans

45. Which of these is not a type of drive of variable speed control?

Correct : D. electronically adjustable turbine drive

46. Feed water for boiler of thermal power plant is obtained from:

Correct : C. condensed steam and small percentage from natural resources

47. Mechanical method of water treatment is done to

Correct : B. to remove solid matter and impurities

48. Which method is used in large modern thermal power plants to heat feed water?

Correct : C. steam is directly taken from main turbine and used to heat it feed water

49. Thermal treatment methods used to remove impurities like:

Correct : A. dissolved carbon dioxide and other gases

50. Chemical method of treatment is used for treatment of:

Correct : B. carbonate and carbon dioxide

51. A plant producing both, electrical power & process heat simultaneously is?

Correct : C. cogeneration plant

52. In a back pressure turbine

Correct : A. pressure at the exhaust from the turbine is the saturation pressure corresponding to the temperature desired in the process

53. In a by-product power cycle?

Correct : C. power production is after the cycle has ended

54. In terms of cost per MW compared to condensing sets of the same power, the back pressure turbines are?

Correct : B. cheaper

55. Which of the following is a good medium for constant temperature heating?

Correct : B. steam

56. If e is the electricity fraction of the total energy output, m is the electric plant efficiency and n is the steam generator efficiency; the heat added per unit total energy output is given by?

Correct : A. (1 / m) + ((1 – e) / n)

57. Which of these is not considered economical for cogeneration?

Correct : B. a low fraction of electric to total energy

58. Which of these is a working fluid in the bottoming plant of a Brayton-Rankine combined plant?

Correct : C. water

59. What would be the temperature of the gas in the combustion chamber?

Correct : B. 1600 °c

60. What is regeneration?

Correct : B. transfer of heat energy from exhaust gases to the compressed air flowing between compressor and the combustion chamber

61. What is meant by inter cooling?

Correct : A. removal of heat from compressed air between stages of compression

62. What is the air standard cycle for a Gas- Turbine called?

Correct : C. brayton cycle

63. Power is produced when the working fluid does some work on the?

Correct : C. blades

64. A Gas Turbine is which type of combustion plant?

Correct : C. internal

65. Which type of compressor is used in a gas turbine plant?

Correct : C. multistage axial flow compressor

66. What part or % of power developed is utilised for driving the compressor?

Correct : A. 65 %

67. The gas turbine power plant mainly uses which among the following fuels?

Correct : D. natural gas and liquid petroleum fuel

68. The maximum steam temperature in a

Correct : A. 600

69. The temperature in a dry bottom pulverised coal furnace, in degree Celsius is about?

Correct : B. 1300

70. What happens to the availability in a combined cycle plant?

Correct : A. decreases

71. Which of the following is not a type of Combined Plant?

Correct : A. sodium- mercury-potassium plant

72. Which of these is not a component of nuclear reactor?

Correct : B. refractor

73. What efficiencies of thermionic power generator have been realised?

Correct : C. 10-20%

74. In economics of nuclear power plant taxes and insurance charges are taken as

Correct : D. fixed cost

75. PWR stands for

Correct : C. pressurized water reactor

76. What does the top of the pressurizer in pressurized water reactor consists of at primary system pressure?

Correct : A. steam

77. Select the incorrect statement which supports PWR.

Correct : C. uses natural fuel

78. Select the incorrect statement about PWR.

Correct : B. corrosion is less in pwr

79. LWR stands for

Correct : D. light water reactor

80. In which reactor is the coolant in direct contact with the heat producing nuclear fuel?

Correct : C. boiling water reactor

81. How many types of Boiling water reactor cycles are there?

Correct : B. 3

82. Which country invented CANDU heavy water reactor?

Correct : A. canada

83. CANDU stands for

Correct : B. canadian natural deuterium uranium

84. Which reactor consists of both fertile and fissile material?

Correct : A. fast breeder reactor

85. What is acronym of LMFBR?

Correct : B. liquid metal fast breeder reactor

86. GCFBR stands for

Correct : B. gas cooled fast breeder reactor

87. Using Helium gas in GCFBR has many advantages.

Correct : A. true

88. Which reactor uses orthometaerhenyl and paratherphenyl as coolant and moderator?

Correct : C. organic substance cooled reactor

89. Nuclear plant is located near the area where cooling water is available.

Correct : A. true

90. Which of the following may be used to measure the rate of nuclear disintegration?

Correct : A. geiger-muller counter

91. Which of the following may not need a moderator?

Correct : B. fast breeder reactor

92. Which of the following is not a naturally occurring nuclear fuel?

Correct : C. plutonium-239

93. One amu is equivalent to?

Correct : A. 931 mev

94. Fast breeder reactors do not

Correct : C. use th-232 as fissile fuel

95. A boiling water reactor is the one, in which the

Correct : D. coolant water is allowed to boil in the core of the reactor

96. Commercial power generation from fusion reactor is not yet possible, because

Correct : C. it is difficult to control fusion reaction

97. Thermal shield is used in high powered nuclear reactors to

Correct : B. protect the walls of the reactor from radiation damage

98. Where was the first control fission of an atom carried out?

Correct : D. germany

99. Which was the first country to develop an atomic bomb?

Correct : B. united states

100. How many percentage of fissionable U-235

Correct : C. 0.7%