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  • Question
  • Which of the following is a water tube boiler?


  • Options
  • A. Lancashire boiler
  • B. Babcock and Wilcox boiler
  • C. Locomotive boiler
  • D. Cochran boiler

  • Correct Answer
  • Babcock and Wilcox boiler 


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    • 1. The heat balance sheet for the boiler shows the

    • Options
    • A. complete account of heat supplied by 1 kg of dry fuel and the heat consumed
    • B. moisture present in the fuel
    • C. steam formed by combustion of hygrogen per kg of fuel
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 2. When steam after doing work in the cylinder passes into a condenser, the engine is said to be a

    • Options
    • A. slow speed engine
    • B. vertical steam engine
    • C. condensing steam engine
    • D. non-condensing steam engine
    • Discuss
    • 3. The theoretical indicator diagram of a simple steam engine is based upon the assumption that

    • Options
    • A. there is no pressure drop due to condensation
    • B. steam is admitted at boiler pressure and exhausted at condenser pressure
    • C. the expansion (or compression) of the steam is hyperbolic
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 4. The performance of a boiler is measured by the

    • Options
    • A. amount of water evaporated per hour
    • B. steam produced in kg/h
    • C. steam produced in kg/kg of fuel burnt
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 5. Locomotive boiler is a __________ boiler.

    • Options
    • A. fire tube
    • B. water tube
    • Discuss
    • 6. The diameter of a cylindrical shell of a Scotch marine boiler varies from

    • Options
    • A. 1.5 to 2 m
    • B. 2.5 to 3.5 m
    • C. 3.5 to 4.5 m
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 7. The diagram factor is the ratio of the

    • Options
    • A. area of the actual indicator diagram to the area of theoretical indicator diagram
    • B. actual workdone per stroke to the theoretical workdone per stroke
    • C. actual mean effective pressure to the theoretical mean effective pressure
    • D. any one of the above
    • Discuss
    • 8. The fire tubes in a Cochran boiler usually have __________ diameter.

    • Options
    • A. 6.25 mm
    • B. 62.5 mm
    • C. 72.5 mm
    • D. 92.5 mm
    • Discuss
    • 9. In case of non-condensing steam engines, the pressure of steam in the cylinder during exhaust stroke is __________ the condenser pressure.

    • Options
    • A. equal to
    • B. lower than
    • C. higher than
    • Discuss
    • 10. A compound steam engine in which piston rods of high pressure and low pressure cylinders ' are attached to two different cranks set at 180° to each other, is called

    • Options
    • A. receiver type compound engine
    • B. Tandem type compound engine
    • C. Woolf type compound engine
    • D. both (a) and (b)
    • Discuss


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