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Power Plant Engineering Practice Test: Basics of Electricity Generation
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Power Plant Engineering Practice Test: Basics of Electricity Generation
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25 Questions

1. Rateau staging is another name for?
2. A ______ is a duct through which velocity of a fluid increases at the expense of pressure.
3. A stage, in reaction turbine, is represented by ____________
4. Multi-stage steam turbines are of the ___________
5. Which of the following statement is wrong?
6. Parson’s reaction turbine is a __________ reaction turbine.
7. In a reaction turbine, when steam flows through the fixed blades ____________
8. A duct which decreases the velocity of fluid & causes a corresponding increase in pressure is called?
9. Angle of divergence in reamed nozzles is?
10. Steam turbines are used for ____________
11. The another name for Velocity compounding is?
12. The reheat factor depends upon ____________
13. In an impulse reaction turbine, the pressure drops gradually and continuously over ____________
14. In a nozzle, whole frictional loss is assumed to occur between ___________
15. In order to reduce the rotor speed of an impulse turbine, the method employed is ____________
16. The process of draining steam from the turbine, at certain points during its expansion and using this steam for heating the feed water in feed water heaters and then supplying it to the boiler is known as?
17. Moving blades are placed next to ___________
18. What is another name of converging nozzle?
19. In turbines, the fluid undergoes a continuous steady flow process and the speed of flow is ____________
20. Rateau turbine is ____________
21. The diagram efficiency is the ratio of ____________
22. The impulse reaction turbine has its driving force ___________
23. A binary vapour plant consists of ____________
24. What is the definition of the draught system?
25. The flow of steam is super-sonic ____________