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  • The cavitation in reaction turbines is avoided, to a great extent by


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  • A. installing the turbine below the tail race level
  • B. using stainless steel runner of the turbine
  • C. providing highly polished blades to the runner
  • D. all of the above

  • Correct Answer
  • all of the above 


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    • 1. In a mixed flow centrifugal pump, the flow through the impeller is a combination of radial and axial flows.

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    • A. Correct
    • B. Incorrect
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    • 2. A Kaplan turbine is an axial flow reaction turbine.

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    • A. Correct
    • B. Incorrect
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    • 3. A hydraulic ram is a device used to

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    • A. store the energy of water
    • B. increase the pressure of water
    • C. to lift water from deep wells
    • D. to lift small quantity of water to a greater height when a large quantity of water is available at a smaller height
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    • 4. Overall efficiency of a centrifugal pump is the ratio of

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    • A. energy available at the impeller to the energy supplied to the pump by the prime mover
    • B. actual workdone by the pump to the energy supplied to the pump by the prime mover
    • C. energy supplied to the pump to the energy available at the impeller
    • D. manometric head to the energy supplied by the impeller per kN of water
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    • 5. In a mixed flow reaction turbine, the flow of water is partly radial and partly axial.

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    • A. Correct
    • B. Incorrect
    • Discuss
    • 6. Dynamic similarity is said to exist between the model and the prototype, if both of them

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    • A. have identical velocities
    • B. are equal in size and shape
    • C. are identical in shape, but differ only in size
    • D. none of the above
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    • 7. If the ratio's of the corresponding forces acting at corresponding points are equal, then the model and the prototype are said to have.

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    • A. geometric similarity
    • B. kinematic similarity
    • C. dynamic similarity
    • D. none of these
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    • 8. If the Francis turbine is run below 50 percent head for a long period, it will not only lose its efficiency but also the cavitation danger will become more serious.

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    • A. Agree
    • B. Disagree
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    • 9. If V1 and V2 are the velocities of water at inlet and outlet of the draft tube respectively, then the efficiency of a draft tube is

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    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
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    • 10. The hydraulic efficiency of an impulse turbine is maximum when velocity of wheel is __________ of the jet velocity,

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    • A. one-fourth
    • B. one-half
    • C. three-fourth
    • D. double
    • Discuss


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