STEAM GENERATOR

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. What is the heating surface area of a water tube 5. Find the rated boiler horsepower of a HRT boiler
boiler if the equivalent rated boiler horsepower is 60 inch in diameter 16 ft long and having seventy
200? and 3 in OD tubes with 0.109 in wall?
a. 182 a. 93.09 Bo.Hp
b. 206 b. 78.09 Bo.Hp
c. 450 c. 89.09 Bo.Hp
d. 198 d. 95.09 Bo.Hp

2. The heating surface area of a fire tube boiler is 400
sq.m. What is the equivalent rated boiler
horsepower?
a. 435.72 hp
b. 363.64 hp
c. 256.78 hp
d. 135.72 hp
3. What would be the percentage of the overall
efficiency of a steam generator obtaining an
evaporation equivalent to 10.95 kg of water from
and at 100 C per kg of coal containing 34,064 kJ/kg
heating value?
a. 73 %
b. 74 %
c. 82 %
d. 70 %
4. A water tube boiler evaporated 5.05 kg of water per
second from a feed water temperature of 104.44 C
to steam to steam at 1241.1 kPa and quality of 0.97;
weight of coal per second 0.57 kg; higher heating
value of coal as fired, 11,800 Btu/lb. Determine the
rate of heat absorption in kW, the boiler
horsepower and the efficiency of steam generating
units.
a. 11558kJ/kg, 1170bo.Hp, 73.87%
b. 12345kJ/kg, 1234bo.Hp, 84.35%
c. 14567kJ/kg, 1045bo.Hp, 67.45%
d. 10275kJ/kg, 1475bo.Hp, 83.25%
6. Two boilers are operating steadily on 91,000 kg of
coal contained in a bunker. One boiler is producing
1591 kg of steam per hour at 1.2 factor of
evaporation and an efficiency of 65 % and another
boiler produced 1364 kg of steam per hour at 1.15
factor of evaporation and an efficiency of 60 %.
How many hours will the coal in the bunker run the
boilers if the heating value of coal is 7590 kCal/kg?
a. 350.35 hrs
b. 280.54 hrs
c. 230.80 hrs
d. 300.54 hrs
7. Coal with a higher heating value of 6700 kCal/kg is
consumed at the rate of 600 kg/h in a steam
generator with a rated boiler horsepower of 200.
The feedwater temperature is 82 C and steam
generated is at 10.2 kg/cm2 abs. saturated
condition. The horsepower developed is equivalent
to 305. What are the percent rating developed and
ASME evaporation unit in kBTU/hr.
@1 MPa, hg = 2778.1 kJ/kg
@82 C, hf = 343.3 kJ/kg
a. 182.5 %, 10211.57 kBTU/h
b. 152.5 %, 10211.57 kBTU/h
c. 192.5 %, 10211.57 kBTU/h
d. 182.5 %, 10311.57 kBTU/h

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 8. An oil fired steam boiler generates 13,000 lb of
steam per hour at 300 psia, 650 F when the fuel is
burned at 120 gallons per hour. Feedwater, 300 F.
Fuel oil, 20 API at 60 F. Calculate the thermal
efficiency and equivalent evaporation per ln of fuel
oil.
a. 77.09 % & 15.4 lbsteam/lbfuel
b. 87.09 % & 19.7 lbsteam/lbfuel
c. 79.07 % & 12.5 lbsteam/lbfuel
d. 89.07 % & 18.8 lbsteam/lbfuel

9. Wet steam is being generated by a boiler at the rate

of 1500 kg per hour from 26.7 C feed water.
Quality of the steam is 98 % and gage shows a
pressure of 9 kg/cm2. Calculate the equivalent
evaporation and th heat absorbed by the boiler per
hour in kCal when producing steam?
@9 kg/cm2: hf = 758.94 kJ/kg, hfg = 2018.4 kJ/kg
a. 993952.95 kCal/hr
b. 399552.95 kCal/hr
c. 339959.95 kCal/hr
d. 939952.95 kCal/hr

10. Coal has the following ultimate analysis by weight:

C = 70.5 %, H2 = 4.5 %, O2 = 6 %, S = 3 %, N2 =
1 %, Ash = 11 %, moisture = 4 %
A stocker fired boiler of 175,000 kg/h steaming
capacity uses this coal as fuel. Calculate the
volume of air in m3/hr with air at 60 F and 14.7
psia pressure if boiler efficiency is 70 %, excess is
30 % and FE = 1.10.
a. 212,830 m3/hr
b. 342,987 m3/hr
c. 122,345 m3/hr
d. 132,456 m3/hr

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STEAM GENERATOR
Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: A PTS: 1
2. ANS: B PTS: 1
3. ANS: A PTS: 1
4. ANS: A PTS: 1
5. ANS: D PTS: 1
6. ANS: C PTS: 1
7. ANS: B PTS: 1
8. ANS: A PTS: 1
9. ANS: D PTS: 1
10. ANS: A PTS: 1