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  • In a nozzle, the effect of supersaturation is to


  • Options
  • A. decrease dryness fraction of steam
  • B. decrease specific volume of steam
  • C. increase the entropy
  • D. increase the heat drop

  • Correct Answer
  • increase the entropy 


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    • 1. In a nozzle, the effect of supersaturation is to increase the dryness fraction of steam.

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    • A. Yes
    • B. No
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    • 2. Steam turbines may be classified according to

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    • A. direction of steam flow
    • B. number of stages
    • C. mode of steam action
    • D. all of these
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    • 3. Which of the following statement is correct?

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    • A. The efficiency of steam turbines is greater than steam engines.
    • B. A flywheel is a must for steam turbine.
    • C. The turbine blades do not change the direction of steam issuing from the nozzle
    • D. The pressure of steam, in reaction turbines, is increased in fixed blades as well as in moving blades
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    • 4. During flow through a nozzle, no heat is supplied or rejected by the steam.

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    • A. Agree
    • B. Disagree
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    • 5. Which of the following statement is wrong?

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    • A. The critical pressure gives the velocity of steam at the throat equal to the velocity of sound.
    • B. The flowin the convergent portion of the nozzle is sub-sonic.
    • C. The flow in the divergent portion of the nozzle is super-sonic.
    • D. To increase the velocity of steam above sonic velocity (super-sonic) by expanding steam below the critical pressure, the divergent portion for the nozzle is not necessary.
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    • 6. For a Parson's reaction turbine, if ?1 and ?2 are fixed blade angles at inlet and exit respectively and ?1 and ?2 are the moving blade angles at entrance and exit respectively, then

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    • A. ?1 = ?2 and ?1 = ?2
    • B. ?1 = ?1 and ?2 = ?2
    • C. ?1 < ?1 and ?2 > ?2
    • D. ?1 = ?2 and ?1 = ?2
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    • 7. When the cross-section of a nozzle __________ continuously from entrance to exit, it is called a convergent nozzle.

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    • A. increases
    • B. decreases
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    • 8. The efficiency of an impulse turbine is maximum when (where Vb = Blade speed, V = Absolute velocity of steam entering the blade, and ? = Nozzle angle)

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    • A. Vb = 0.5 V cos ?
    • B. Vb = V cos ?
    • C. Vb = 0.5 V2 cos ?
    • D. Vb = V2 cos?
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    • 9. The expansion of steam in a nozzle follows

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    • A. Carnot cycle
    • B. Rankine cycle
    • C. Joule cycle
    • D. Stirling cycle
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    • 10. In a 50% reaction turbine stage, tangential component of absolute velocity at rotor inlet is 537 m/s and the blade velocity is 454 m/s. The power output in kW of steam will be

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    • A. 260 kW
    • B. 282 kW
    • C. 296 kW
    • D. 302 kW
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