STEAM POWER PLANT

Q1. How are the steam power plants classified?

Q2. Give the Layout of modern steam power plant and explain it briefly?

Q3. What are the essential requirements of steam power plant design?

Q4. What factors should be taken into consideration while selecting the site for steam power plant?

Q5. How can the capacity of a steam power plant be determined?

Q6. Enumerate and explain the steps involved in handling of the coal.

Q7. What are the requirements of a good coal handling plant?

Q8. Explain with the help of a neat diagram the arrangement and working of Fluidized Bed combustion (FBC)
system.

Q9. What are the different ways by which Solid Fuels are fired in a Steam Power Plant.

Q10. With the Help of a neat diagram Explain the construction and working of the following:
i. Overfeed Stoker ( Travelling Grate, Bar Grate, and Spreader Stoker )
ii. Underfeed Stoker
iii. Pulverised fuel firing

Q11. State the characteristics of a good ash handling plant.

Q12. Enumerate and explain various modern ash-handling systems.

Q13. How are dust collectors classified. Explain the working of the dust collectors.

Q14. Explain with the help of a diagram the working of a cyclone separator.

Q15. What is the function of a boiler chimney?

Q16. Derive the expression for

i. Height of chimney
ii. Diameter of Chimney
iii. Maximum discharge condition through chimney.

Q17. What do you understand by the term Boiler Draught

Q17. How are boilers classified? Explain the unique feature of high pressure boilers.

Q18. Explain with the help of a neat sketch the construction and working of the following:
i. LaMont Boiler
ii. Loeffler Boiler
iii. Benson Boiler
iv. Velox Boiler

Q19. Write short notes on the following:

i. Supercharged boilers.
ii. Supercritical boilers.
iii. Economizer
iv. Air preheater
v. Superheater
Q20. Define the term Steam Nozzle. Derive the expression for the condition of maximum discharge through the
 nozzle.

Q21. Discuss various methods of compounding steam turbines.

Q22. Describe briefly the various methods of steam turbine governing.

Q23. Write short notes on the following:

(a) Cyclone and collector
(b) Industrial steam turbines
(c) Hydraulic test of boiler
(d) Draught fans
(e) Steam

Q24. Enumerate and describe the various methods of feed water treatment.

Q25. List the advantages and disadvantages of steam power plant.

Q26. In an impulse steam turbine, steam is accelerated through nozzle from rest. It enters
the nozzle at 9.8 bar dry and saturated. The height of the blade is 10 cm and the nozzle angle is 15.
Mean blade velocity is 144 m/s. The blade velocity ratio is 0.48 and blade velocity coefficient is 0.97.
Find:
(1) Isentropic heat drop.
(2) Energy lost in the nozzles and in moving blades due to friction.
(3) Energy lost due to finite velocity of steam leaving the stage.
(4) Mass flow rate.
(5) Power developed per stage.
(6) Diagram and stage efficiency. Take: Nozzle efficiency = 92%
Blade angles at inlet = Blade angles at out let Speed = 3000 rev/min

Q27. An impulsive stage of a steam turbine is supplied with dry and saturated steam at
14.7 bar. The stage has a single row of moving blades running at 3600 rev/min. The mean diameter of
the blade disc is 0.9 m. The nozzle angle is 15 and the axial component of the absolute velocity leaving
the nozzle is 93.42 m/s. The height of the nozzles at their exit is 100 mm. The nozzle efficiency is 0.9 and
the blade velocity co-efficiency is 0.966. The exit angle of the moving blades is 2 greater than at the
inlet. Determine:
(1) The blade inlet and outlet angles.
(2) The isentropic heat drop in the stage.
(3) The stage efficiency.
(4) The power developed by the stage.

Q28. In a simple steam Impulse turbine, steam leaves the nozzle with a velocity of 1000 m/s at an angle of 20 to
the plane of rotation. The mean blade velocity is 60% of velocity of maximum efficiency.
If diagram efficiency is 70% and axial thrust is 39.24 N/kg of steam/sec, estimate:
(1) Blade angles.
(2) Blade velocity co-efficient.
(3) Heat lost in kJ in friction per kg.

Q29. A reaction steam turbine runs at 300 rev/min and its steam consumption is 16500 kg/hr. The pressure of steam
at a certain pair is 1.765 bar (abs.) and its dryness fraction is 0.9. and the power developed by the pair is
3.31 kW. The discharge blade tip angel both for fixed and moving blade is 20 and the axial velocity of flow is
0.72 of the mean moving blade velocity. Find the drum diameter and blade height. Take the tip leakage as 8%,
but neglect area blocked by blade thickness.

Q30. At a particular ring of a reaction turbine the blade speed is 67 m/s and the flow of steam is 4.54 kg/s, dry
saturated, at 1.373 bar. Both fixed and moving blades have inlet and exit angles of 35 and 20 respectively.
Determine:
(a) Power developed by the pair of rings.
(b) The required blade height which is to be one tenth of the mean blade ring diameter.
(c) The heat drop required by the pair if the steam expands with an efficiency of 80%.