This set of Power Plant Engineering Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Feedwater Heaters – 1”.
1. Feedwater heaters are of two types, they are ____________
a) natural and forced
b) saturated and non saturated
c) open and close
d) water driven and steam driven
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Explanation: Feedwater heaters are classified by the methods of mixing steam and feedwater.
2. In open feedwater heater __________
a) the extracted steam is allowed to mix with feedwater
b) feedwater flows through tubes and steam is condensed outside
c) steam flows outside tubes and feedwater inside
d) steam flows inside tubes and outside inside
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Explanation: In a closed heater, the extracted steam is allowed to mix with feedwater and both leave the heater at a common temperature.
3. Closed heaters are also called __________
a) contact type heater
b) shell and heat exchanger
c) drip heaters
d) shell and tube heater
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Explanation: Closed heaters are also called shell and heat exchanger where the feedwater flows through the tubes.
4. Expand TTD?
a) turbine temperature difference
b) total temperature difference
c) terminal temperature difference
d) turbine terminal difference
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Explanation: Terminal temperature difference = saturation temperature of bled steam – exit water temperature.
5. The value of TTD varies with __________
a) heater pressure
b) heater temperature
c) turbine inlet temperature
d) independent of all mentioned
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Explanation: The value of TTD varies with heater pressure. heaters receiving wet steam, the TTD is positive.
6. Why at least one open heater is used?
a) installed vertically
b) feedwater deaeration
c) less cost
d) increase efficiency
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Explanation: The open heater works as a deaerator.
7. What are the advantages of open heater?
a) lower cost
b) high heat transfer capacity
c) high feedwater temperature
d) all of the mentioned
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Explanation: Open heaters are cheap as compared to closed heaters, in closed heaters feedwater temperature is not high.
8. What do you mean by heater drip?
a) condensate
b) heater failure
c) extract
d) maximum temperature
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Explanation: Saturated water at the steam extraction pressure.
9. Which of the following material can be used as a moderator?
a) Beryllium
b) Graphite
c) Heavy water
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: A neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons, thereby turning them into thermal neutrons capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction involving uranium-235.
10. Closed heaters are __________
a) horizontal
b) vertical
c) inclined
d) depends on the requirement
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Explanation: Closed heaters are mostly horizontal. Sometimes, they are made vertical to reduce the floor areas.
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