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Energy Management Midsem 24

This document is an exam paper for the MEF 424 Energy Management course at the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani. It includes three questions focusing on conducting an energy audit, calculating the payback period for steam pipeline insulation, and discussing the blowdown process in boilers. The exam is open book, lasts 90 minutes, and has a weightage of 25%.

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Energy Management Midsem 24

This document is an exam paper for the MEF 424 Energy Management course at the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani. It includes three questions focusing on conducting an energy audit, calculating the payback period for steam pipeline insulation, and discussing the blowdown process in boilers. The exam is open book, lasts 90 minutes, and has a weightage of 25%.

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and Science, Pilani

Birla Institute of Technology


MEF 424 Energy Management
Mid Sem (Open Book)
Weightage: 25% Date: 12/ 03 / 2024
Time: 90 minutes
Note: State clearly assumptions you make.
assumptions you make.
Underline the answers and the
conduct a detailed energy audit of all the
Q.1. You have to campus. Explain in details
hostels and the messes of the
proper justifications. (10]
step-by-step your action plan with
insulation of a steam pipeline is to be upgraded. With
Q2. The simple payback period for
the following data calculate the
|10]
the insulation upgradation project.

Length of the steam pipeline 100 m


100 mm
Bare pipe external diameter
8368 kJ/m²-hr
Heat loss from the pipe with existing
25 mm insulation thickness
Thickness of insulation to be added 25 mmn

Heat loss after insulation 1673.6 kl/m²-hr

upgradation
Boiler efficiency 75%

GCV of coal 16736 kJ/kg


Annual operating hours 8000 hrs
Cost of coal Rs. 2000/Ton
Investmnent for insulation Rs. 4 lakhs
upgradation

Q3 Explain why "blow down" is done in a boiler. List out


advantages and d1sadvantayes of blow down, |5)

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