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Power Plant Engineering Sample Oral Questions

This document contains 131 questions related to power plant engineering. The questions cover topics such as types of turbines, turbine components and operation, steam generation and distribution, nuclear power plant components and operation, and economics of power generation.

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Power Plant Engineering Sample Oral Questions

This document contains 131 questions related to power plant engineering. The questions cover topics such as types of turbines, turbine components and operation, steam generation and distribution, nuclear power plant components and operation, and economics of power generation.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Power Plant Engineering Sample oral Questions

1. What is nuclear waste?


2. What is breeder reactor?
3. What is nuclear fusion?
4. What is the current status of power generation in India?
5. What is the current status of nuclear energy in India?
6. Is nuclear energy sustainable?

7. What is a stage in a steam turbine?

8. What is a radial-flow turbine?

9. In which turbine is tip leakage a problem?

10. What are types of thrust hearings?

11. Why should a steam or moisture separator be installed in the steam line next to a steam
turbine?

12. What are some conditions that may prevent a turbine from developing full power?

13. Why is it necessary to open casing drains and drains on the steam line going to the
turbine when a turbine is to be started?

14. What is steam rate as applied to turbo-generators?

15. What are the two basic types of steam turbines?

16. What is the operating principle of an impulse turbine?

17. What is the operating principle of a reaction turbine?

18. What are topping turbines?

19. What is an extraction turbine?

20. What is a combination thrust and radial bearing?

21. What is a tapered-land thrust bearing?

22. How many governors are needed for safe turbine operation? Why?
23. How is a fly ball governor used with a hydraulic control?

24. What is meant by critical speed?

25. How is oil pressure maintained when starting or stopping a medium-sized turbine?

26. Besides lubrication, which are two functions of lubricating oil in some turbines?

27. Do you stop cooling-water flow through a steam condenser as soon as the turbine is
slopped?

28. How can steam turbines be classified?

29. How can the disadvantages of the impulse turbine be overcome?

30. How can the misalignment be rectified?

31. How do the problems of vibration and fatigue arise with steam turbine blades?

32. How does deposit formation on turbine blades affect turbine efficiency?

33. How does pressure monitoring ensure detection of turbine deposits?

34. How does the safety trip valve trip at normal speed?

35. How is pressure compounding accomplished?

36. How is pressure-velocity compounding accomplished?

37. How is velocity compounding accomplished?

38. How many governors are needed for safe turbine operation? Why?

39. How many types of particle-impact damage occur in turbine blades?

40. In which cases does moisture-impingement and washing erosion occur?

41. In which part of the steam turbine does corrosion fatigue occur?

42. In which turbine is this pressure compounding used?

43. In which turbine is velocity compounding utilized?

44. In which turbines, is this pressure-velocity compounding principle employed?

45. In which zone of steam turbines has temperature-creep rupture been observed?

46. What are types of turbine seals?


47. What are some common troubles in surface-condenser operation?

48. What are the advantages of steam turbines over reciprocating steam engines?

49. What are the advantages of velocity compounding?

50. What are the advantages of welded rotors?

51. What are the basic causes of the problem of rotor failure?

52. What are the differences between impulse and reaction turbines?

53. What are the disadvantages of velocity compounding?

54. What are the losses in steam turbines?

55. What are the main causes of turbine vibration?

56. What are the possible causes for the turbine not running at rated speed?

57. What are the possible causes of a governor not operating?

58. What are the possible causes of excessive vibration or noise in a steam turbine?

59. What are the possible causes of the speed of the turbine rotor increasing excessively as
the load is decreased?

60. What are the stresses to which a steam turbine rotor is subjected during its service life?

61. What are three types of condensers?

62. What are two types of clearance in a turbine?

63. What factors are responsible for turbine-blade failures?

64. What is combined-cycle cogeneration?

65. What is gland-sealing steam?

66. What is the definition of a steam turbine?

67. Which of the following plants is almost inevitably used as base load plant?
68. Cost of labor is considered as which cost and depreciation is taken as which cost?
69. The ratio of average load to maximum load is known as __________ factor.
70. Which factor is the ratio of maximum demand to connected load of consumer.
71. Heat rate is __________ of efficiency.
72. What is plant use factor?
73. What are the basic fuels used for power plants?
74. What are the types of coals?
75. What is steam nozzle?
76. What are the types of steam nozzles?
77. What is super saturated flow in steam nozzle?
78. Which cycle is used in steam power plants?
79. Name HP boilers.
80. What the design requirements of HP boilers?
81. Name the four major circuits in steam power plant.
82. What consists of air and flue gas circuit?
83. What consists of feed water and steam flow circuit in steam power?
84. What consists of cooling water circuit and coal & ash circuit in steam power plant?
85. What are the uses of air filter and turbochargers in diesel engine power plant?
86. What is the function of cooling system in Diesel power plant?
87. What is the main purpose of high-pressure boilers?
88. State important advantages of high-pressure boilers?
89. Name important high pressure boilers?
90. What is the major disadvantage of La Mont boiler?
91. State some important advantages of Benson boiler?
92. What is rating of Loeffler boiler?
93. Explain Reheat cycle?
94. What are the important advantages of Re-heating?
95. Name different methods of reheating?
96. Define bleeding in steam power plant?
97. Explain the term Regeneration?
98. State some advantages of Regeneration cycle?
99. Name different methods used to extract steam for heating the feed water?
100. State some advantages of fluidised bed boilers?
101. Name the two types of coal handling
102. Why the preparation of coal is necessary?
103. Name the different types of coal transforming equipments?
104. What is the use of belt conveyors?
105. Write about screw conveyor and bucket conveyors?
106. What is the difference between stocker firing and pulverised fuel firing?
107. What are the different types of stockers?
108. How the ash handling system is classified?
109. Why ash handling system is' needed?
110. Name different types of dust collectors?
111. What are the appliances known as boiler accessories?
112. Which are boiler mountings?
113. What is meant by boiler trial?
114. Define demand factor?
115. Define load curve?
116. Define load factor?
117. What includes fixed cost?
118. What includes operating cost?
119. What is the need of depreciation cost?
120. What are the requirements to sustain fission process?
121. What are the desirable properties of a good moderator?
122. What are the desirable properties of a coolant?
123. Name few types of reactors.
124. What are the advantages of breeder reactors?
125. What are the demerits of breeder reactor?
126. What is the purpose of control rods?
127. Name the different components of nuclear reactor?
128. State some advantages of Pressurized Water reactor?
129. What are the advantages of gas cooled reactor nuclear power plant?
130. What is breeding in nuclear reactor?
131. Name the coolants commonly used for fast breeder reactors?

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