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  • Question
  • The thermal efficiency of a steel slab reheating furnace (walking beam type) may be about __________ percent.


  • Options
  • A. 15
  • B. 40
  • C. 70
  • D. 85

  • Correct Answer
  • 40 


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    • 1. Which furnace employs preheating, heating and soaking zones?

    • Options
    • A. Soaking pit
    • B. Reheating furnace
    • C. Open hearth furnace
    • D. Cupola
    • Discuss
    • 2. Means for giving direction to the circulation of gases in furnaces are

    • Options
    • A. fans.
    • B. arrangement of heating stock in the furnaces.
    • C. location of outlet ports and heating & combustion devices.
    • D. all (a), (b) and (c).
    • Discuss
    • 3. To reduce the stack loss, heat recovery from flue gas can be done by

    • Options
    • A. preheating of cold stock.
    • B. preheating of combustion air.
    • C. steam generation in waste heat boilers.
    • D. all (a), (b) and (c).
    • Discuss
    • 4. Maximum heat transfer in high temperature furnaces is by

    • Options
    • A. conduction
    • B. convection
    • C. radiation
    • D. either (a), (b) or (c); depends on the type of furnace
    • Discuss
    • 5. The heat recoverable from flue gases of furnaces depends on the

    • Options
    • A. thermal efficiency of furnace.
    • B. quantity of flue gases.
    • C. flue gas temperature drop through the furnace.
    • D. all (a), (b) and (c).
    • Discuss
    • 6. Low stack loss indicates the

    • Options
    • A. use of sub-stoichiometric air for combustion.
    • B. efficient use of fuel.
    • C. inefficient use of fuel.
    • D. oxygen enrichment of combustion air.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Which is not a hearth furnace?

    • Options
    • A. Glass tank furnace
    • B. Open hearth furnace
    • C. Cupola
    • D. Reheating furnace
    • Discuss
    • 8. Coke ovens in steel plant are heated by

    • Options
    • A. electricity
    • B. blast furnace gas/mixed gas
    • C. coke oven gas
    • D. both (b) and (c)
    • Discuss
    • 9. Higher furnace temperature can not be achieved by use of a lean fuel gas in the furnace by

    • Options
    • A. increasing the draft in the furnace.
    • B. preheating the fuel gas.
    • C. oxygen enrichment of combustion air.
    • D. preheating the combustion air.
    • Discuss
    • 10. An example of a periodic furnace is the

    • Options
    • A. blast furnace stoves
    • B. blast furnace
    • C. coke oven heating chamber
    • D. rotary kilns
    • Discuss


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