Practice Test: Question Set - 04
1. Ceramic recuperators compared to metallic recuperators for the same duty
- (A) Are lighter
- (B) Occupy more space
- (C) Are less costly
- (D) Have higher pressure differential between flue
gas & air side
2. Reverberatory furnace is used for
- (A) Roasting/reduction of ores
- (B) Annealing steel coil
- (C) Heating air
- (D) Steel melting
3. Rate of heat release in a furnace, which is the measure of heat intensity, is defined as
- (A) kcal/hr/m3 combustion space
- (B) kcal/m3 combustion space
- (C) kcal/hr
- (D) None of these
4. Fuel used in B.F. stove is
- (A) Pulverised coal
- (B) Furnace oil
- (C) Blast furnace gas/mixed gas
- (D) Coke oven gas
5. Design of waste heat boiler for recovery of waste heat from furnace gases depends upon the
- (A) Quantity & temperature of waste gas
- (B) Dust concentration & nature of dust in waste gas
- (C) Corrosive nature of the waste gas
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
6. In a furnace operation, which is not preheated?
- (A) Solid fuels
- (B) Hydrocarbon containing fuel gases (e.g. coke oven gas, refinery gas
etc.)
- (C) Both (a) and (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
7. Maximum heat transfer in high temperature furnaces is by
- (A) Conduction
- (B) Convection
- (C) Radiation
- (D) Either (a), (b) or (c); depends on the type of furnace
8. The main function of a muffle in the muffle furnace is to
- (A) Protect the charge from the effects of the
products of combustion
- (B) Smooth out temperature inequalities on the combustion side of the
muffle wall
- (C) Both (a) & (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
9. Decarburisation of steel
- (A) Is the removal of carbon from iron carbide (Fe3C)
- (B) Affects its crystalline structure
- (C) Is favoured by CO2
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
10. Heat transfer rate to the stock/charge in the furnace does not depend upon the
- (A) Emissivity of the refractory walls
- (B) Size of the furnace
- (C) Use of waste heat recovery equipments
- (D) Thickness of the stock
11. Hearth furnaces are not used for
- (A) Roasting
- (B) Melting
- (C) Reheating
- (D) None of these
12. In order to maintain an oxidising atmosphere in a furnace, it should have
- (A) More of excess air
- (B) Less of excess air
- (C) More of CO in flue gas
- (D) More of CO2 in flue gas
13. In a muffle furnace, the muffle
- (A) Retards the heat transfer
- (B) Assists in temperature equalisation in the charge
- (C) Permits the use of controlled atmosphere for the protection of stock
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
14. Which is a regenerative furnace?
- (A) Coke oven heating chamber
- (B) Open hearth furnace
- (C) Both (a) and (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
15. Combustion of furnace oil in a furnace (soaking pit) with preheated combustion air at 400°C results in saving of about __________ percent furnace oil as compared to its combustion with atmospheric air, if the flue gas outlet temperature from the soaking pit is 1200°C.
- (A) 5
- (B) 60
- (C) 20
- (D) 40
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