1. When steam after doing work in the cylinder passes into a condenser, the engine is said to be ?

slow speed engine

vertical steam engine

condensing steam engine

non-condensing steam engine

Answer: condensing steam engine

Explanation:


2. The high steam and low water safety valve is not used in ?

Cochran boiler

Cornish boiler

Lancashire boiler

Locomotive boiler

Answer: Locomotive boiler

Explanation:


3. Expansion ratio is the ratio of volume ?

swept volume to the volume at cut-off

clearance volume to the swept volume

volume at cut-off to the swept volume

swept volume to the clearance volume

Answer: swept volume to the volume at cut-off

Explanation:


4. Lancashire boiler is ?

stationary fire tube boiler

internally fired boiler

horizontal boiler

all of these

Answer: all of these

Explanation:


5. A in a boiler is used to put off fire in the furnace of the boiler when the level of water in the boiler falls to an unsafe limit ?

blow off cock

fusible plug

stop valve

safety valve

Answer: fusible plug

Explanation:


6. The forced circulation of water does not take place in ?

La-Mont boiler

Lancashire boiler

Velox boiler

Benson boiler

Answer: Lancashire boiler

Explanation:


7. In a Woolf type compound engine, the high pressure and low pressure cylinders ?

have common piston rod

are set at 90°

have separate piston rod

are set in V-arrangement

Answer: have separate piston rod

Explanation:


8. An economiser is installed in a boiler primarily to ?

superheat the steam

reduce fuel consumption

increase steam pressure

all of these

Answer: reduce fuel consumption

Explanation:


9. An economiser is generally placed between ?

last superheater or reheater and air preheater

induced draft fan and forced draft fan

air preheater and chimney

none of the above

Answer: last superheater or reheater and air preheater

Explanation:


10. The diameter of internal flue tubes of a Lancashire boiler is about ....... that of its shell. ?

one-fourth

one-third

two-fifth

one-half

Answer: two-fifth

Explanation: