1. A turbine has a mechanical efficiency of 93% volumetric
efficiency of 95% and total efficiency of 82%. If effective head is 40m, find the total head. A. 48.72 m C. 40.72 m B. 36.22 m D. 34.72 m Ans. B
2. The initial condition of air in an air compressor is 98 Kpa
and 27⁰C and discharges air at 450 Kpa. The bore and stroke are 355 mm and 381 mm, respectively with percent clearance of 8% running at 300 rpm. Find the volume of air at suction. A. 541.62 m3/hr C. 561.62 m3/hr B. 551.62 m /hr3 D. 571.62 m3/hr Ans. D 3. A single acting air compressor has a volumetric efficiency of 89% operates at 500 rpm. It takes in air at 100 Kpa and 30⁰C and discharges it at 600 Kpa. The air handled is 8 m3/min measured at discharge condition. If compression is isentropic, find mean effective pressure in Kpa. A. 233.34 C. 198.34 B. 973.17 D. 204.82 Ans. A 4. An auditorium seating 1500 people is to be maintained at 80⁰F dry bulb and 65⁰F wet bulb temperature when outdoor air is at 91⁰F dry bulb and 75⁰F wet bulb. Solar heat load is 110,000 Btu/hr and supply air is at 60⁰F, determine the amount of supply air. A. 93,229.17 lb/hr C. 73,229.17 lb/hr B. 83, 229.17 lb/hr D. 63,229.17 lb/hr Ans. A 5. At 35% solution leaves the absorber and 30% solution enters the absorber. The heat removed from the absorber by cooling water is 547.6 Btu and ammonia is superheated by 10⁰. Find the pound per pound of ammonia gas from the evaporating coils. A. 11 C. 13 B. 14 D. 12 Ans. C 6. A 300 mm diameter pipe discharges water at the rate of 200 li/s. Point 1 on the pipe has a pressure of 260 kpa and 3.4 m below point 1 is point 2 with a pressure of 300 kpa. Compute the head loss between points 1 and 2. A. 4.29 m C. 6.32 m B. 2.59 m D. 1.87 m Ans. D 7. Carbon dioxide flows through a nozzle with a speed of 380 m/s. the entrance condition of nozzle is 250⁰C and 1200Kpa. Find the stagnation pressure. A. 2,136.34 kpa C. 2,156.34 kpa B. 2,146.34 kpa D. 2,166.34 kpa Ans. A 8. A 50 kg block of iron casting at 500K is thrown into a large lake that is at a temperature 285 deg K. The iron block eventually reaches thermal equilibrium with the lake water. Assuming average specific heat of 0.45 KJ/kg-K for the iron, determine the entropy generated during the process. A. -12.65 KJ/K C. 4.32 KJ/K B.16.97 KJ/K D. 6.32 KJ/K Ans. A 9. A windmill with a 12 m diameter rotor is to be installed at a location where the wind is blowing at an average velocity of 10 m/s. Using standard condition of air (1 atm, 25 deg C), determine the maximum power can be generated by the windmill. A. 68 KW C. 72 KW B. 74 KW D. 70 KW Ans. D 10. A rigid tank contains 2 kmol of N2 and 6 kmol of CO2 gases at 300 deg K and 115 Mpa. Find the tank volume using ideal gas equation. A. 7.33 m3 C. 3.33 m3 B. 5.33 m3 D. 1.33 m3 Ans. D 11. A 10 cm diameter spherical ball whose surface is maintained at a temperature of 70 deg C is suspended in the middle of a room at 20 deg C. If the convection heat transfer coefficient is 15 W/m2-C and the emissivity of the surface is 0.8, determine the total heat transfer from the ball; A. 23.56 watts C. 9.22 watts B. 32.77 watts D. 43.45 watts Ans. B 12. A classroom that normally contains 40 people is to be air- conditioned with window air-conditioning units of 5 KW cooling capacity. A person at rest may be assumed to dissipate heat at a rate of about 360 KJ/hr. These are 10 light bulbs in the room, each with a rating of 100 watts. The rate of heat transfer to the classroom through the temperature of 21 deg C, determine the number of window air-conditioning units required. A. 1 units C. 3 units B. 2 units D. 4 units Ans. B 13. An ideal gas with molecular weight of 7.1 kg/kg mol is compressed from 600 kpa and 280 deg K to a final specific volume of 0.5 m3/kg. Calculate the work of compression in KJ/kg? A. 32.8 C. 35.6 B. 33.3 D. 28.7 Ans. B 14. A thermoelectric refrigerator that resembles a small ice chest is powered by a car battery, and has a COP of 0.10. If the refrigerator cools a 0.350 L canned drink from 20 deg C to 40 deg C in 30 min, determine the average electric power consumed by the thermoelectric refrigerator. A. 130 W C. 120 W B. 110 W D. 140 W Ans. A 15. The system shown in the figure consists in part of transformer serving customer x,y,z. Estimate the peak load on this transformer. X – store building with 5 kW lighting, 25 kW small motor power. Y – store building with 18 kW, 35 kW small motor power. Z – office building with 55 kW lighting, 80 kW large motor power. A. 75.08 kW C. 95.84 kW B. 85.07 kW D. 105.76 kW Ans. B 16. A steam turbine with 80% stage efficiency receives steam at 7 MPa and 550⁰C and exhaust as 20 kPa. Determine the quality at exhaust. At 7 MPa and 550⁰C: h1= 3530.9 kJ/kg s1= 6.9486 At 20 kPa (0.020 MPa): sf= 0.8320 hf= 251.40 A. 96.96 % C. 82.34 % B. 76.34 % D. 91.96 % Ans. A 17. A 18,000 kW geothermal plant has a generator efficiency and turbine efficiency of 90% and 80%, respectively. If the quality after throttling is 20% and each well discharges 400,000 kg/hr, determine the number of wells are required to produce if the change of enthalpy at entrance and exit of turbine is 500 kJ/kg. A. 4 wells C. 6 wells B. 2 wells D. 8 wells Ans. B 18. The turbine power of a geothermal power plant is 2 MW and the enthalpy at the inlet of the turbine is 2500 kJ/kg. Steam flows at the rate of 2.5 kg/s. If the enthalpy at the outlet of the condenser is 300 kJ/kg and the temperature rise of the cooling water is 10⁰C, what is the volume flow rate of the cooling water? A. 109.37 m3/hr C. 120.37 m3/hr B. 237.68 m /hr 3 D. 320.47 m3/hr Ans. C 19. Steam enters the nozzle of an impulse turbine at 2 MPa, 300⁰C and leaves at 0.30 MPa, 0.98 dry. The angle of the nozzle is 20⁰ to the direction of motion of the blades and blade velocity is 380 m/s. Calculate the velocity of the steam leaving the nozzles. A. 829.4 m/s C. 545.7 m/s B. 924.8 m/s D. 754.8 m/s Ans. A
20. Dry saturated steam at 8 bar (0.8 MPa) is expanded in
turbine nozzles to a pressure of 5 bar 0.97 dry, Find the velocity at exit. If the area at exit is 14.5 cm2, find the mass flow of the steam in kg/s. Steam Properties: At 5 bar (0.5 MPa) At 8 bar (0.8 Mpa) hf= 640 kJ/kg vg= 0.3748 m3/kg hg= 2769 kJ/kg hfg= 2109 kJ/kg A. 1.625 kg/s, 407.4 m/s C. 2.257 kg/s, 233.8 m/s B. 2.456 kg/s, 786.5 m/s D. 3.125 kg/s, 125.7 m/s Ans. A 21. Air is drawn into a gas turbine working on the constant pressure cycle at 1 bar 21⁰C and compressed to 5.7 bar. The temperature at the end of heat supply is 680⁰C. Taking expansion and compression to be adiabatic where Cv= 0.718 kJ/kg-K, Cp= 1.055 kJ/kg-K, calculate the heat energy supplied per kg at constant pressure. A. 472 kJ/kg C. 501 kJ/kg B. 389 kJ/kg D. 489 kJ/kg Ans. A 22. A double suction heater pump is moving 1.1 liters/s turns at 900 rpm. The pump adds 7 m head of water. What is the specific speed? A. 155.1 rpm C. 500.7 rpm B. 255.7 rpm D. 243.34 rpm Ans. A 23. A 5 inches diameter cylinder rotates at 3600 rpm. Air is flowing past the cylinder at 100 ft/s. How much is the lift on the cylinder per unit length? Th density of air is 0.00234 slug/ft3. A. 20.15 lb/ft C. 20.75 lb/ft B. 21.75 lb/ft D. 23.65 lb/ft Ans. D 24. An average car consumes about 5 L of gasoline a day and the capacity of the fuel tank of a car is about 50 L. Therefore, a car needs to be refueled once every 10 days. Also, the density of gasoline ranges from 0.68 to 0.78 kg/L and its lower heating value is about 44,000 kJ/kg (that is, 44,000 kJ of heat is released when 1 kg of gasoline is completely burned). Suppose all the problems associated with the radioactivity and waste disposal of nuclear fuels are resolved, and a car is to be powered by U-235. If a new car comes equipped with 0.1 kg of the nuclear fuel U-235, determine if this car will ever need refueling under average driving condition. A. the car need to be refueled after 10 years B. the car need to be refueled after 50 years C. the car does not need to be refueled D. the car needs to be refueled after 100 years Ans. C 25. Consider a person standing in a breezy room at 20⁰C. Determine the total rate of heat transfer from this person if the exposed surface area and the average outer surface temperature of the person are 1.6 m2 and 29⁰C, respectively, and the convection heat transfer coefficient is 6 W/m2-C. A. 168.1 W C. 137.5 W B. 174.5 W D. 154.7 W Ans. A 26. Compute the air flow in ft3/min of mechanical ventilation required to exhaust an accumulation of refrigerant due to leaks of the system capable of revolving air from the machinery room for a mass of 4lbs refrigerant. A. 200 C. 220 B. 210 D. 230 Answer: A 27. Compute the free aperture cross section in m2 for the ventilation of a machinery room if the mass of refrigerant IS 9 KG. A. 0.314 C. 0.514 B. 0.414 D. 0.614 Answer: B 28. A 29.53” X 39.37” pressure vessel contains ammonia with f=0.041. Compute the minimum required discharge capacity of the relief device in kg/hr. A. 106.71 kg/hr C. 110.71 kg/hr B. 108.71 kg/hr D. 112.71 kg/hr Answer: C 29. Compute the maximum length of the discharge pipe installed on the outlet of a pressure-relief device in feet for internal pipe diameter of 0.5 in and rated discharge capacity is 8 lb/min of air. The rated pressure of relief valve is 16 psig. A. 0.286 ft C. 0.486 ft B. 0.386 ft D. 0.586 ft Answer: A 30. A 1 m x 1.5 m cylindrical tank is full of oil with S.G = 0.92. Find the force acting at the bottom of the tank in dynes. 106.33 x 10^7 dynes 106.33 x 10^4 dynes 106.33 x 10^5 dynes 106.33 x 10^6 dynes Answer: D 31. What is the overall efficiency of a 30 MW steam power plant with a boiler efficiency of 92%, cycle efficiency of 44%, mechanical loss of 5%, generator efficiency of 93% and gross power production 32,000 KW? A. 33.98% C. 35.44% B. 36.88% D. 38.84% Answer: B 32. Determine the air standard efficiency of an engine operating on the diesel cycle with clearance of 6 % when the suction pressure is 99.97 kpa and the fuel is injected for 7 % of the stroke. Assume k=1.4 A. 62.11 % C. 73.58 % B. 51.20 % D. 60.02 % Answer: A 33. Steam at 1.3 MPa and 250oC in a rigid cylinder is cooled until the quality is 40%, find the heat rejected from the cylinder. A. 1627.71 kJ/kg C. 1234.45 kJ/kg B. 1533.33 kJ/kg D. 1162.40 kJ/kg Answer: D 34. Air standard engine has a compression ratio of 18 and a cut- off ratio of 4. If the intake air pressure and temperature are 100 kPa and 27oC, find the work in KJ per kg. A. 2976 C. 1582 B. 2166 D. 2751 Answer: D 35. Determine the amount of oxygen if the heating value of fuel is 26961.45 kJ/kg A. 1.5% C. 3.5% B. 2.5% D. 4.5% Answer: d 36. A superheater steam rankine cycle has turbine inlet conditions of 17.5 MPa and 530 C expands in a turbine to 0.007 MPa. The turbine and pump polytropic efficiencies are 0.85 and 0.75 respectively, pressure losses between pump and turbine inlet are 1.5 MPa. What should be the pump work in kJ/kg? A. 17.34 C.25.32 B. 27.32 D. 47.33 Answer: C 37. A heat exchanger was installed purposely to cool 0.50 kg of gas per second. Molecular weight is 32 and k=32. The gas is cooled from 150 c to 80 c. water us available at the rate of 0.30 kg/s and a temperature of 5 deg c. calculate the exit temperature of the water in C. A. 44.86 C. 46.45 B. 42.86 D. 40.34 Answer: A 38. . A Pelton wheel running at a speed of 600 rpm is driven by 2 similar jets. At this speed, it transmit 6000 kW to the shaft. The efficiency of the runner is 90% and the velocity of the fluid at inlet to the bucket is 50 m/s, estimate the diameter of each jet. A. 0.0165 m C. 0.0143 m B. 0.0435 m D. 0.0123 m Answer: A 39. Mass of ice at -4C is needed to cool 115 kg of vegetables in a bunker for24 hours. The initial temperature of vegetables is assumed that the average temperature inside the bunker is 7 C within 24 hour period. If the heat gain per hour in the bunker is 30% of the hear removed to cool the vegetable form 30C to 7C, what would be the required mass of ice? a. 27.86 b. 26.57 c. 29.54 d. 37.38 ans. a 40. Freon- 12 leaves the condenser of a condenser of a refrigerating plant as a saturated liquid at 5.3673 bar. the evaporator pressure is 1.509 bar and the refrigerant leaves the evaporator at this pressure and at temperature of -5C. Calculate the refrigerating effectper kg. a. 132.88 kJ/kg b. 123.77 kJ/kg c. 160.91 kJkg d. 123.86 kJ/kg ans. a 41. Compute the humidity ratio of air condensing the density at 35 C and 101kpa is 105 kg/m3 a. 0.036 kgvapor/kgair b. 0.063 kgvapor/kgair c. 0.36 kgvapor/kgair d. 0.63 kgvapor/kgair ans. a 42. A two pass surface condenser is to be designed using overall heat transfer coefficient of 480 Btu/ F-ft2 of outside tube surface. the tubes are to be 1 inch outside diameter with 1/16 in walls (or 7/8 in inside diameter). Entering circulating water velocity is to be 6 ft/s. Steam enters the condenser at a rate of 100,000 lb/hr at a pressure of one psia and an enthalpy of 1090 Btu/lb. Condensate leaves at saturated liguid at one psia. Circulating water enters the condenser at 85 def. F and leaves at 95 def F. Note: 1 psia condensate has temperature of 101.7 deg F. Wet steam entering becomes condensate at 101.7 def. F with hf = 69.72 Btu/lb. Calculate the total number of tubes tobe used in each pass. a. 18,200 tubes b. 15,400 tubes c. 10,450 tubes d. 11,456 tubes ans. a 43. A two pass surface condenser is to be designed using overall heat transfer coefficient of 480 Btu/ F-ft2 of outside tube surface. the tubes are to be 1 inch outside diameter with 1/16 in walls (or 7/8 in inside diameter). Entering circulating water velocity is to be 6 ft/s. Steam enters the condenser at a rate of 100,000 lb/hr at a pressure of one psia and an enthalpy of 1090 Btu/lb. Condensate leaves at saturated liguid at one psia. Circulating water enters the condenser at 85 def. F and leaves at 95 def F. Note: 1 psia condensate has temperature of 101.7 deg F. Wet steam entering becomes condensate at 101.7 def. F with hf = 69.72 Btu/lb. Calculate the total length of the tube to be used in ft. a. 123,000ft b. 324,000ft c. 742,000ft d. 543,000ft ans. c 44. A two pass surface condenser is to be designed using overall heat transfer coefficient of 480 Btu/ F-ft2 of outside tube surface. the tubes are to be 1 inch outside diameter with 1/16 in walls (or 7/8 in inside diameter). Entering circulating water velocity is to be 6 ft/s. Steam enters the condenser at a rate of 100,000 lb/hr at a pressure of one psia and an enthalpy of 1090 Btu/lb. Condensate leaves at saturated liguid at one psia. Circulating water enters the condenser at 85 def. F and leaves at 95 def F. Note: 1 psia condensate has temperature of 101.7 deg F. Wet steam entering becomes condensate at 101.7 def. F with hf = 69.72 Btu/lb. Calculate the total length of the tube to be used in ft per tube. a. 20.4 ft b. 80.8 ft c. 17.4 ft d. 15.5 ft ans . a 45. A two pass surface condenser is to be designed using overall heat transfer coefficient of 480 Btu/ F-ft2 of outside tube surface. the tubes are to be 1 inch outside diameter with 1/16 in walls (or 7/8 in inside diameter). Entering circulating water velocity is to be 6 ft/s. Steam enters the condenser at a rate of 100,000 lb/hr at a pressure of one psia and an enthalpy of 1090 Btu/lb. Condensate leaves at saturated liguid at one psia. Circulating water enters the condenser at 85 def. F and leaves at 957 def F. Note: 1 psia condensate has temperature of 101.7 deg F. Wet steam entering becomes condensate at 101.7 def. F with hf = 69.72 Btu/lb. Calculate the total number of tubes to be used in each pass. a. 3151 tubes b. 1315 tubes c. 5131 tubes d. 1513 tubes ans. d 46. How many days would an inventory of 1000 bbl of fuel oil with a relative density of 0.90 at an operating temperature of 35 C is consumed if used in a 10 MW diesel engine with a full load brake thermal efficiency of 34% at rated load. a. 3.0 days b. 2.5 days c. 1.8 days d. 2.0 days ans. b 47. A tank contains 3ft2 of 120 psig air at 80 F. How many tires of volume 1.2 ft3 can be inflated to 28psig at 80 F? a. 5 complete tires b. 10 complete tires c. 7 complete tires d. 3 complete tires ans. a 48. A 0.30 x 0.40 m branch duct leaves 0.30 x 0.60 main duct at an angle of 60⁰. The air temperature is 20C. The dimensions of the main duct remain constant following branch. The flow rate upstream is 2.7 m3/s. what is the pressure downstream in the main duct: Note at 20C p = 1.2041kg/m3 a. 346 Pa b. 436 Pa c. 634 Pa d. 643 Pa ans. a 49. A sudden enlargement in a circular duct measures 0.20m diameter upstream and 0.40m downstream. The upstream pressure is 150 Pa, downstream pressure is 200Pa. What is the flow rate of 20C air through the fitting? use p=1.2041kg/m3 a. 0.49 m3/s b. 0.83 m3/s c. 0.38 m3/s d. 0.94 m3/s ans. c 50. The tank of an air compressor has a volume of 3 ft3 and is filled with air at temperature of 40F. If a gage on the tank reads 150 psig, what is the mass of air in the tank? a. 1.78 lbs b. 2.00 lbs c. 2.67 lbs d. 1.98 lbs ans. a 51. From Steam tables, determine the average constant pressure specific heat (Cp) of steam at 10 kpa and 45.8 C. a. 1.79 kJ/kg C b. 10.28 kJ/kg C c. 30.57 kJ/kg C d. 100.1 kJ/kg C ans. a 52. A 10 m3 vessel initially contains 5m3 liquid water and 5m3 of saturated water vapor at 100 kpa. Calculate the internal energy of the system using the steam tables. a. 5 x 105 kJ b. 8 x 105 kJ c. 1 x 106 kJ d. 2 x 106 kJ ans. d 53. A vessel with volume of 1 cubic meter contains liquid water and water vapor equilibrium at 600kpa. The liquid water has a mass of 1kg. Using the steam tables, calculate the mass of the water vapor. a. 0.99kg b. 1.57kg c. 3.16kg d. 2.54kg ans. c 54. Calculate the entropy of steam at 60 psia with a quality of 0.6. a. 0.4274 Btu/lbm-R b. 0.5395 Btu/lbm-R c. 1.1577 Btu/lbm-R d. 1.2172 Btu/lbm-R ans. c 55. If 1 lbm of steam at 14.7 psia, 63% quality is heated isentropically, at what pressure will it reach the saturated vapor state? a. 56 psia b. 313 psia c. 1852 psia d. 2585 psia ans. d 56. A 5m3 vessel initially contains 50kg of liquid water and saturated water vapor at total internal energy of 27,300kJ. Calculate the heat requirement to vaporize all of the liquid. a. 100,000kJ b. 200,000kJ c. 300,000kJ d. 400,000kJ ans. a 57. In an isentropic compression, p1= 200 psi, p2= 300 psia,V1= 10 in3, and n =1.4. Find V2 a. 3.509 in3 b. 4.500 in3 c. 5.000 in3 d. 6.095 in3 ans. d 58. An isobaric steam generating process starts with saturated liquid at 20 psia. The change in entropy is equal to the initial entropy. What is the change in enthalpy during the process? a. -230.4 Btu/lbm b. 230.4 Btu/lbm c. 0 Btu/lbm d. 196.2 Btu/lbm ans. b 59. A cylinder and piston arrangement contains saturated water vapor at 110C. The vapor is compressed in a reversible adiabatic process until the pressure is 1.6 Mpa. Determine the work done by the system per kilogram of water. a. -637 kJ/kg b. -509 kJ/kg c. -432 kJ/kg d. -330 kJ/kg Ans. C 60. Helium is compressed isothermally from 14.7psia and 68F. The compression ratio is 4. Calsulate the change in entropy of the gasgiven that RHe= -0.4961 Btu/lbm R a. -2.76 Btu/lbm-R b. -0.689 Btu/lbm-R c. 0 Btu/lbm-R d. 0.689 Btu/lbm-R Ans. B 61. Two hundred milliliters of oxygen gas (O2) are collected over water at 23C and a pressure of 1 atm. What volume would the oxygen occupy dry at 273 K and 1 atm? a. 179.3 ml b. 184.4 ml c. 190.9 ml d. 194.5 ml Ans. A 62. Calculate the theoretical density of copper given that the unit cell is face centered cubic and the lattice parameter is 361Å. the atomic weight of copper is 63.5 g/mole. a. 4.49 g / cm3 b. 7.86 g / cm3 c. 8.78 g / cm3 d. 8.97 g / cm3 Ans. D 63. Determine the planar density of copper atoms in the (100) plane given that the unit cell is face-centered cubic and the lattice parameter is 3.16 Å. a. 7.68 x 1018 atoms/m2 b. 1.53 x 1018 atoms/m2 c. 2.30 x 1018 atoms/m2 d. 3.84 x 1018 atoms/m2 Ans. B 64. a sample face-centered cubic nickel (Ni) was placed in an X- ray beam of wavelength λ= 0.154 nm. If the lattice parameter for Ni is ao= 0.352 nm, what is the first order angle of diffraction? a. 5.68o b. 6.97o c. 12.6o d. 19.0o Ans. C 65. Centrifugal pump at best efficiency point (BEP). Assume the pump characteristic arehead, h = 7 m, flow rate Q = 10 liters/sec, and rotative speed n = 1170 rpm. Find the specific speed in SI units. a. 0.4 b. 0.71 c. 10.41 d. 3.94 Ans. B 66. What type of turbine delivers 25,000 bhp at 500 rpm under a net head of 5250 ft. a. Impulse turbine b. Francis turbine c. Kaplan turbine d. Propeller Ans. A 67. What is the power ratio of a pump and its 1/5 scale model if the ratio of heads is 4 to 1? a. 20 b. 200 c. 12.5 d. 125 Ans. B 68. Find the thrust and efficiency of two 2-m diameter propellers through which flows a total of 600 m3/s of air 11.3 N/m3. The propellers are attached to an airplane moving at 250 kph through still air. Neglect eddy losses. a. 36,077 N, 73% b. 77,630 N, 37% c. 66,033 N, 33% d. 77330 N, 77% Ans. A 69. The fuel oil has the ff. analysis: C = 89% H2 = 8% N2 = 2% S = 1% With 3% excess air, what is the actual amount of air needed to burn the fuel oil? a. 13.17 kgair/kgfuel b. 13.47 kgair/kgfuel c. 14.47 kgair/kgfuel d. 14.17 kgair/kgfuel Ans. D 70. Products of combustionwith k of 1.35, 556 K, molecular weight M = 29, are moving within an exhaust pipe at 174 m/s; 1.12 kg/cm2 abs. static pressure. Find the total pressure and temperature. a. 1.61 kg/cm2, 580 K b. 1.61 kg/cm2, 570 K c. 1.13 kg/cm2, 570 K d. 1.13 kg/cm2, 580 Ans. C 71. A drum containing steam with 2.5 m in diameter is 7.5 m long. Of the total volume, 1/3 contains saturated steam at 800 kpa and the other 2/3 contains saturated water. If this tank should explode, how much water would evaporate? Consider the process to be of constant enthalpy. a. 2,948.11 kg b. 2,424.62 kg c. 2,651.24 kg d. 2,123.76 kg Ans. A 72. A Batangas base industrial company operates a steam-power plant with reheat and regeneration. The steam enters a turbine at 300 bar and 900 K and expands to 1 bar. Steam leaves the first stage at 30 bar and part of it entering a closed heater while the rest is reheated to 800 K. Both section of the turbine have adiabatic efficiency of 93%. A condensate pump exist between the main condenser and the heater. Another pump lies between the heater and the condensate outlet line from the heater (condensed extracted steam). Compute for the extracted fraction of the total mass flow to the heater. a. 0.234 b. 0.534 c. 0.765 d. 0.485 Ans. A 73. A coal fired utility has the following characteristics: Coal Feed Rate - - - - - - 6,940 kg/hr Electric power rating - - - 50 MW Refuse Removal Rate - - - - 410 kg/hr Carbon in Refuse - - - - - - 30 % Ultimate Analysis in percent : C = 76.56 O2 = 7.70 S = 2.44 H2 = 5.50 N2 = 1.70 Si = 6.10 Heating value of coal is 32,773 kJ/kg If stack gas particle collectors are required to meet the limit of 0.043 kg particulates per million kg of fuel feed set by Environmental Management Bureau under the jurisdiction of the DENR, what efficiency must the collection system have? Molecular weight of Si = 28.09. a. 99.999953 % b. 89.999953 % c. 79.999953 % d. 69.999953 % Ans. A 74. A reverse Carnot cycle air conditioner of 4 TR capacity operates in cooling coil temperature of 5 deg. C. The surrounding air at 45 deg. C is used as a cooling medium rising to the temperature of 55 deg. C. The temperature of heat rejection is 60 deg. C. Determine the mass flow rate of air entering the heat exchanger. A. 0.07 kg/s C. 0.16 kg/s B. 0.12 kg/s D. 0.04 kg/s Answer: A 75. A turbine receives 150 lbm/sec of air at 63 psia and 2450oR and expands it polytropically to 14.7 psia. the exponent n is equal to 1.45 for the process. Determine the power. a. 52,343.16 BTU/sec b. 53,343.16 KW c. 53,343.16 HP d. 53,343.16 ft-lb/sec Ans. A 76. Fuel of calorific value 43.5 MJ/kg is burned in an auxiliary boiler at the rate of 81 kg/hr. The feed water rate is 0.258 kg/s and its temperature is 48oC. If the efficiency of the boiler is 68% and the steam produced is dry and saturated, estimate its pressure. a. 1.1 Mpa b. 1.5 Mpa c. 2.0 MPa d. 2.1 MPa Ans. A 77. How long could a 2000 hp motor be operated on the heat energy liberated by 1 mi.3 of ocean water when the temperature of water is lowered by 1oC and if all these heat were converted to mechanical energy? a. 371.56 b. 243.55 c. 384.76 d. 376.57 Ans. A 78. Given a horizontal conveyor, 46 m centers, 175 pounds per hr capacity of handling bituminous coal at 0.5 m/s with 800 kg per m3. Other data as follows: flight width and depth 610 mm x 200 mm Quantity of material 0.108 m3/m Coefficient of friction elements 0.10 Material Coefficient of friction 0.59 Assume an engineering-type chain with sleeve bearing rollers weighing with flights, 89.3 kg/m. Calculate the chain pull in kg. a. 2180.33 b. 4550.10 c. 1555.36 d. 3166.46 Ans. D 79. What is the power in kW required to drives horizontal conveyor 46 m centers, 175 tons per hr capacity of bituminous coal at 0.5 m/s with 800 kg/m3 material? Other data are as follows: flight width and depth 610 mm x 200 mm Quantity of material 0.108 m3/m Coefficient of friction elements 0.10 Material Coefficient of friction 0.59 Assume an engineering-type chain with sleeve bearing rollers weighing with flights, 89.3 kg/m. Let Fp = 76.042 kg-m/Hp-s. a. 10.20 kW b. 20.50 kW c. 15.53 kW d. 30.15 kW Ans. C 80. Atmospheric air 14.7 psia and 60oF at sea level, what is the pressure at 12000 ft altitude if air is incompressible. @ 60oF : the density of air is 0.0763 lbm/ft3, P1 = 14.7 psia. a. 5.42 psia b. 5.34 psia c. 6.72 psia d. 9.32 psia Ans. A 81. A pipe of internal diameter 6 units carries water with a depth of 3 units under in influence of gravity. Calculate the hydraulic radius. a. 1.12 b. 1.32 c. 2.31 d. 1.01 Ans. A 82. water (density = 1000 kg/m3, E = 2 x 109 Pa) is flowing at 4 m/s through a long length of 4 in schedule 40 pipe (Di = 0.102m, t = 0.0062 m, E = 2 x 1011 Pa) when a valve suddenly closes completely. What is the theoretical increase in pressure? a. ΔP = 2.23 x 106 Pa b. ΔP = 1.23 x 106 Pa c. ΔP = 0.23 x 106 Pa d. ΔP = 5.23 x 106 Pa Ans. D 83. Centrifugal pump powered by a direct-drive induction motor is needed to discharge 150gal/min against a 300-ft head and turning at a fully loaded speed of 3500 rpm. What type of pump must be selected? a. Reciprocating pump b. Radial vane pump c. Screw pump d. None of these Ans. B 84. In a boiler design, it is desirable to have the flue gas exit temperature above the dewpoint. What is the dewpoint temperature of the flue gas produced by the combustion having the gravimetric analysis of: N2 = 71.84% O2 = 3.61 % CO2 = 20.35% H2O = 4.20% Assume that air infiltration and leakage are negligible a. 45 deg C b. 40 deg C c. 39 deg C d. 24 deg C ans. C 85.From the Blasius solution for laminar boundary layer flow, the average coeffiecient of skin friction is Cr= 1.328/√𝑅𝐸. If air flowing past a 33 ft long plate at a velocity of 100ft/sec, what is the force on the plate? a. 0.00114 lbf b. 0.00344 lbf c. 0.086 lbf d. 0.114 lbf ans. D 86. Superheated steam at pressure of 20 bar and temperature 300 C is expanded isentrpically. At what pressure will the steam be just dry and saturated? a. 6 bar b. 8 bar c. 10 bar d. 4 bar ans. A 87. Water flows steadily with a velocity of 3.05 m/s in a horizontal pipe having a diameter of 15.24 cm. At one section of the pipe, the temperature and pressure of the water are 21 C and 689.3 kPa respectively. What is the Friction factor? a. 0.156 b. 0.0091 c. 0.0185 d. 0.781 ans. C 88. A nuclear power plant is to have a capacity of 500MW- electrical. How many pounds of U235 are needed to operate the plant continuously for 6 years if the plant capacity factor is 75% and thermal effy is 35%. a. 5179.05 b. 5375.01 c. 6426.25 d. 6778.64 ans. A 89. When a U235 nucleus fissions, about 20 Mev of energy are released. What fraction of the weight of the nucleus is thereby converted into energy? a. 2.26 x 103 b. 1.13 x 103 c. 1.51 x 103 d. 2.52 x 103 ans. b 90. A 600 MVe PWR nuclear plant uses 4% enriched Uranium fuel has a thermal efficiency of 36%. The burn up allowed of the fissionable portion of the fuel is 20%. Calculate how many metric tons of natural Uranium is placed in the reactor vessel for one year continuous operatin? a. 69.34 b. 79.35 c. 88.56 d. 56.77 ans. B 91. Determine the wavelength of a gamma photon having an enrgy of 1 Mev. a. 1.53 x 10-10 cm b. 2.28 x 10-10 cm c. 1.24 x 10-10 cm d. 3.06 x 10-10 cm ans. c 92. A nuclear powerplant has rated capacity of 200 MW electrical power. The core contains 50 tons of Uranium enriched to 2 percent U235. Determine the average thermal neutron flux in the reactor required at rated plant capacity. a. 1.18 x 1013 neurons / cm2-s b. 1.48 x 1013 neurons / cm2-s c. 1.28 x 1013 neurons / cm2-s d. 1.38 x 1013 neurons / cm2-s ans. D 93. A proton has kinetic energy of 10 Mev. What is its velocity? a, 4.34 x 109 m/s b. 3.44 x 109 m/s c. 4.34 x 109 cm/s d. 3.44 x 109 cm/s ans. C 94. What is the wavelength of the most energetic x-raus from 150,00 volt tube? a. 8.325 x 10-10 cm b. 8.325 x 10-9 cm c. 7.852 x 10-10 cm d. 7.852 x 10-9 cm ans. A. 95. If all exact isotropic mass of He4 is 4.00187 amu, calculate the total binding energy and the building energy per nucleon. a. 30.14 Mev, 8.53 Mev / nucloen b. 30.14 Mev, 7.53 Mev / nucloen c. 35.14 Mev, 7.53 Mev / nucloen d. 35.14 Mev, 8.53 Mev / nucloen ans. C
96. During heavy rain, a 3m x 4.6m room is flooded to a depth of
15cm. To remove the water ( µ = 1.0 x10-3 Pa.s). a pump is used that does the job in two hours. The water flows through a horizontal pipe of radius 0.64 cm and length of 6.7m. Compute the gage pressure does the pump produce? a. 2.923 Kpa b. 2.785 Kpa c. 1.176 Kpa d. 1.254 Kpa ans. a