Practice Test: Question Set - 02
1. Which of the following advantages is not associated with the use of preheated air for combustion of a fuel in the furnace?
- (A) Increase in calorific value of the fuel
- (B) Increase in flame temperature
- (C) Reduction in scale losses
- (D) Saving in fuel consumption
2. Which of the following is a batch furnace?
- (A) Cupola
- (B) Reheating furnace
- (C) Glass tank furnace
- (D) None of these
3. The thermal efficiency of an air/fuel gas preheating recuperator may be as high as __________ percent.
- (A) 50
- (B) 65
- (C) 85
- (D) 99
4. Which of the following is not a continuous waste heat recovery equipment from the flue gases going out of furnace?
- (A) Economiser
- (B) Regenerator
- (C) Ceramic recuperator
- (D) Waste heat boiler
5. Which of the following is not a recuperative furnace?
- (A) Soaking pit
- (B) Reheating furnace
- (C) Steam boiler
- (D) Coke oven
6. Waste heat from the outgoing flue gases in a thermal power plant is recovered by a/an
- (A) Economiser
- (B) Steam superheater
- (C) Air preheater
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
7. An example of shaft furnace is the
- (A) L.D. converter
- (B) Glass melting tank
- (C) Blast furnace
- (D) Soaking pit
8. Use of pulverised coal in boilers provides
- (A) Higher calorific value
- (B) Better combustion
- (C) Smokeless burning
- (D) Less erosion on furnace wall
9. In salt bath furnace, heat is transferred to the charge mainly by
- (A) Conduction
- (B) Convection
- (C) Radiation
- (D) None of these
10. Example of an indirectly heated furnace is
- (A) Hood annealing furnace
- (B) Muffle furnace
- (C) Both (a) and (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
11. The heating capacity of muffle furnace depends on the
- (A) Surface area & emissivity of the stock
- (B) Properties of the muffle wall (temperature, area, and emissivity)
- (C) Both (a) & (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
12. In case of pulverised coal fired steam boiler, the secondary air serves the main purpose of
- (A) Transportation of coal
- (B) Drying of coal
- (C) Combustion of coal by supplying it around the burner
- (D) Preheating the primary air
13. Ceramic recuperators (made of SiC) is economical, only when used for preheating combustion air above __________ °C.
- (A) 250
- (B) 650
- (C) 850
- (D) 1000
14. Which of the following is a directly fired intermittent furnace?
- (A) Walking beam reheating furnace
- (B) Reverberatory furnace
- (C) Tower furnace
- (D) Tunnel kiln
15. Furnace aerodynamics is related to the __________ in the furnace.
- (A) Movement of gases
- (B) Measurement of flue gas volume
- (C) Temperature control
- (D) Pressure adjustment
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