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This document contains an assignment answer key for a course on steam and gas power systems. It provides the correct answers to 15 multiple choice questions related to topics like reaction turbines, degree of reaction, impulse reaction turbines, condensers, and non-condensables. The questions cover concepts such as the driving force in impulse reaction turbines, the ratio used to calculate stage efficiency, representations of stages in reaction turbines, and the effects of non-condensables in condensers.

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NPTEL Online Certification Course

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee


Sub: Steam and Gas Power Systems
Instructor: Prof. Ravi Kumar

ASSIGNMENT #6 ANSWER KEY

1. In reaction turbine the fixed blade


(a) alter the direction of steam
(b) allow steam to expand to a larger velocity
(c) functions as same of nozzle
(d) all of the above

2. Degree of reaction is given by


(a) heat drop in moving blades / total heat drop in the stage
(b) heat drop in fixed blades / total heat drop in the stage
(c) heat drop in moving blades / heat drop in fixed blades
(d) total heat drop in the stage / heat drop in fixed blades

3. Maximum efficiency in reaction steam turbine is


(a) Cos(α/2) /(1+ Cos2α)
(b) Cos2α/(1+ Cos2α)
(c) 2Cos2α/(1+ Cos2α)
(d) Cosα/(1+ Cos2α)
Where α is nozzle angle

4. The impulse reaction turbine has its driving force


(a) as a reaction force
(b) as an impulsive force
(c) none of the above
(d) partly as an impulsive force and partly as a reaction force

5. The ratio of total useful heat drop to the total isentropic heat drop, is called
(a) stage efficiency
(b) internal efficiency
(c) Rankine efficiency
(d) none of these

6. The action of steam in a steam turbine is


(a) static
(b) static and dynamic
(c) dynamic
(d) neither static nor dynamic

7. A regenerative steam cycle renders


(a) decreased work output per unit mass of steam
(b) increased thermal efficiency
(c) increased work output per unit mass of steam
(d) decreased work output per unit mass of steam as well as increased thermal
efficiency
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8. A turbine is said to have an axial discharge when the steam leaves the blade tip at
__________ to the direction of the blade motion.
(a) 60°
(b) 180°
(c) 90°
(d) 270o

9. Rateau Turbine is
(a) pressure compounded turbine
(b) velocity compounded turbine
(c) pressure-velocity compounded turbine
(d) simple reaction turbine

10. In a reaction turbine, when steam flows through the fixed blades
(a) Pressure and velocity both increases
(b) pressure decreases while velocity increases
(c) pressure increases while velocity decreases
(d) pressure and velocity both decreases

11. Curtis turbine is a


(a) simple reaction turbine
(b) pressure compounded turbine
(c) velocity compounded turbine
(d) pressure-velocity compounded turbine

12. In a reaction turbine when the degree of reaction is zero, then there is
(a) maximum heat drop in moving blades
(b) no heat drop in fixed blades
(c) no heat drop in moving blades
(d) maximum heat drop in fixed blades

13. A stage, in reaction turbine, is represented by


(a) number of exits of steam
(b) number of entries of steam
(c) number of casing
(d) each row of blades

14. In jet type condensers


(a) steam and cooling water mix
(b) steam and cooling water do not mix
(c) cooling water passes through tubes and steam surrounds them
(d) steam passes through tubes and cooling water surrounds them

15. Non-condensables in condensers


(a) increases the vacuum efficiency
(b) decreases vacuum efficiency
(c) does not affect vacuum efficiency
(d) none of the above
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