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  • The impulse turbine rotor efficiency will have a maximum value of 0.5 cos2 ?, where ? is the nozzle exit flow angle, if the


  • Options
  • A. blades are equiangular
  • B. blade velocity coefficient is unity
  • C. blades are equiangular and frictionless
  • D. blade solidity is 0.65

  • Correct Answer
  • blades are equiangular and frictionless 


  • Steam Nozzles and Turbines problems


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    • 1. A steam nozzle converts

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    • A. heat energy of steam into kinetic energy
    • B. kinetic energy into heat energy of steam
    • C. heat energy of steam into potential energy
    • D. potential energy into heat energy of steam
    • Discuss
    • 2. When the cross-section of a nozzle increases continuously from entrance to exit, it is called a

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    • A. divergent nozzle
    • B. convergent nozzle
    • C. convergent-divergent nozzle
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. The purpose of governing in steam turbines is to

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    • A. maintain the speed of the turbine
    • B. reduce the effective heat drop
    • C. reheat the steam and improve its quality
    • D. completely balance against end thrust
    • Discuss
    • 4. Rateau turbine is

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    • A. simple reaction turbine
    • B. velocity compounded turbine
    • C. pressure compounded turbine
    • D. pressure-velocity compounded turbine
    • Discuss
    • 5. In a velocity compounded impulse turbine, when steam flows through the second row of moving blades,

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    • A. velocity increases
    • B. velocity decreases
    • C. velocity remains constant
    • D. pressure remains constant
    • Discuss
    • 6. The density of supersaturated steam is about __________ that of the ordinary saturated vapour at the corresponding pressure.

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    • A. same as
    • B. 2 times
    • C. 4 times
    • D. 8 times
    • Discuss
    • 7. The flow of steam is super-sonic

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    • A. at the entrance to the nozzle
    • B. at the throat of the nozzle
    • C. in the convergent portion of the nozzle
    • D. in the divergent portion of the nozzle
    • Discuss
    • 8. Curtis turbine is a

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    • A. simple reaction turbine
    • B. velocity compounded turbine
    • C. pressure compounded turbine
    • D. pressure-velocity compounded turbine
    • Discuss
    • 9. The diagram efficiency is the ratio of

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    • A. workdone on the blades to the energy supplied to the blades
    • B. workdone on the blades per kg of steam to the total energy supplied per stage per kg of steam
    • C. energy supplied to the blades per kg of steam to the total energy supplied per stage per kg of steam
    • D. none of the above
    • Discuss
    • 10. The velocity of steam, in reaction turbines, is increased in the fixed blades as well as in moving blades.

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    • A. True
    • B. False
    • Discuss


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