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Steam Nozzles and Turbines problems


  • 1. The critical pressure gives the velocity of steam at the throat equal to the velocity of sound.

  • Options
  • A. Agree
  • B. Disagree
  • Discuss
  • 2. A binary vapour plant consists of

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  • A. steam turbine
  • B. steam condenser
  • C. mercury boiler
  • D. all of these
  • Discuss
  • 3. The Parsons' reaction turbine has

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  • A. only moving blades
  • B. only fixed blades
  • C. identical fixed and moving blades
  • D. fixed and moving blades of different shape
  • Discuss
  • 4. A turbine is said to have an axial discharge when the steam leaves the blade tip at __________ to the direction of the blade motion.

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  • A. 60°
  • B. 90°
  • C. 180°
  • D. 270°
  • Discuss
  • 5. The turbine, in which the general direction of the steam flow is parallel to the turbine axis, is called axial flow turbines

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  • A. True
  • B. False
  • Discuss
  • 6. In a De-Laval nozzle expanding superheated steam from 10 bar to 0.1 bar, the pressure at the minimum cross-section (i. e. pressure at throat, p2) will be

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  • A. 3.3 bar
  • B. 5.46 bar
  • C. 8.2 bar
  • D. 9.9 bar
  • Discuss
  • 7. The turbine blades do not change the direction of steam issuing from the nozzle.

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  • A. True
  • B. False
  • Discuss
  • 8. The ratio of total useful heat drop to the total isentropic heat drop, is called

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  • A. stage efficiency
  • B. internal efficiency
  • C. Rankine efficiency
  • D. none of these
  • Discuss
  • 9. In a nozzle, whole frictional loss is assumed to occur between

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  • A. inlet and thoroat
  • B. inlet and outlet
  • C. throat and exit
  • D. all of these
  • Discuss
  • 10. The efficiency of reaction turbine is maximum when (where ? = Angle made by the absolute velocity (V) at inlet)

  • Options
  • A. Vb = 0.5 V cos ?
  • B. Vb = V cos ?
  • C. Vb = 0.5 V2 cos ?
  • D. Vb = V2 cos ?
  • Discuss

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