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CHAPTER - Boilers Pract Problems Solns

The document contains practice problems related to boilers, focusing on multiple choice questions and explanations about different types of boilers, their functions, and operational principles. Key topics include classifications of boilers, steam generation processes, heat transfer rates, and water circulation methods. The explanations clarify concepts such as fire tube and water tube boilers, supercritical and subcritical boilers, and feed systems.

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CHAPTER - Boilers Pract Problems Solns

The document contains practice problems related to boilers, focusing on multiple choice questions and explanations about different types of boilers, their functions, and operational principles. Key topics include classifications of boilers, steam generation processes, heat transfer rates, and water circulation methods. The explanations clarify concepts such as fire tube and water tube boilers, supercritical and subcritical boilers, and feed systems.

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CHAPTER – BOILERS

PRACTICE PROBLEMS
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:

1. Answer: d
Explanation: Based on the contents of the tubular heating surface, boilers
are primarily classified as fire tube boiler and water tube boiler. Fire tube
boilers those in which production of combustion pass through the tubes
and water tube boilers are those in which the products of combustion
surround the water tubes from outside.
2. Answer: c
Explanation: In positive forced boilers, water enters the bottom of the
tubes and completely transforms into steam as it passes through the tubes
and reaches at the top. Thus, these boilers do not need a steam drum and
hence often referred as drum-less boilers. These boilers work at very high
pressures.
3. Answer: c
Explanation: Function of boiler is to generate steam at constant
pressure as per the process requirement. The steam generated may be
nearly dry saturated or superheated steam. Constant pressure in the boiler
is maintained by generating the steam equal to the steam flowing out of
the boiler.
4. Answer: d
Explanation: The boiler may have a water circulation either by natural
means due to difference in density or by external means (forced
circulation). All modern high pressure boiler plants use a pump to force the
water to circulate through the boiler plant. The use of natural circulation is
limited to the subcritical boilers.
5. Answer: b
Explanation: As the steam pressure increases, its density also increases
while the corresponding increase in temperature causes density of water
to decrease. This makes the pressure difference causing water flow to
decrease.
6. Answer: c
Explanation: Water velocity is required to be increased rather than gas
velocities to increase the rate of heat transfer rate in the boiler, because a
considerable increase in pressure is more easily produced with water than
with gas. Hence, for a given output in boiler, smaller diameter tube may be
used.
7. Answer: c
Explanation: The combustion gas coming out of the super heater is used to
run gas turbine which runs at air compressor. The exhaust gases coming
out of the gas turbine are passed through the economizer to heat the feed
water. Feed water is recirculated with the help of a pump.
8. Answer: c
Explanation: The salts are deposited in the evaporator drum (steam
generator) due to the circulation of impure water can be easily cleaned by
blowing off the water with pressure or by removing the submerged coil
from the drum.
9. Answer: d
Explanation: The heat transfer rates of supercritical boilers are large
compared to any other boilers. The steam side heat transfer of subcritical
is 165000 kJ/m2hroc when the steam pressure and temperature are 180
bar and 538oC whereas, the steam side heat transfer coefficients of
supercritical boiler is about 2,20,200 kJ/m2hroC when the steam is
generated at 240oC.
10. Answer: b
Clarification: The boilers are usually not classified as feed type rather the
common classifications are tube-type, circulation, internal/external fired
etc.
11. Answer: a
Clarification: The two classifications are Open feed System and Closed feed
system where in open feed the water is in direct contact and in closed feed
it is not in direct contact.
12. Answer: b
Clarification: In a fire tube boiler, the water to be heated is kept in the
shells and the furnace can be situated at one end of a fire-tube which
lengthens the path of the hot gases, thus increasing the heating surface
which increases to further extent by making the gases reverse direction
through a second parallel tube.
13. Answer: a
Clarification: Fire tubes are equipped with large storage tanks heated from
below hence these have high steam storage capacity.
14. Answer: c
Clarification: The water is kept in the tubes because the water undergoes
expansion which leads to large pressure in the setup which is more
efficiently handled by the tubes, hence it is kept in tubes and heating gases
are passed through the shell.
15. Answer: b
Clarification: In this type of boilers, the tubes are filled with water and are
arranged inside a furnace in a number of possible configurations. These
water tube boilers have water in the tubes and hence have less volume for
water storage due to lack of space yet they are exposed to much larger
area for heat transfer.

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