Practice Test: Question Set - 04
1. Mott and Wheeler test is conducted on coke to find its
- (A) Reactivity with O2
- (B) Abradability
- (C) Phosphorus content
- (D) Volatile matter content
2. The main advantage of forced draft over natural draft is that
- (A) Combustion of fuel is complete
- (B) Smaller height chimney can be used
- (C) Furnace control is easier
- (D) All (a), (b) & (c)
3. Coal is pulverized before burning in large capacity boiler furnaces mainly to
- (A) Ensure its complete combustion
- (B) Facilitate easy ash removal
- (C) Enhance its calorific value
- (D) Provide trouble free operation
4. If the specific heat of gaseous products of combustion of a fuel is high, the abiabatic flame temperature will be
- (A) Low
- (B) High
- (C) Very high, if the fuel is of low calorific value
- (D) None of these
5. Laboratory gas is obtained by the cracking of
- (A) Gasoline
- (B) Diesel
- (C) Fuel oil
- (D) Kerosene
6. Low temperature oxidation and spontaneous combustion of freshly mined coal is accentuated, if
- (A) It contains large amount of volatile matter
- (B) It is stored in tall heaps
- (C) Smaller fines are stored in large quantity
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
7. 'Wind loss' resulting from unscientific storage of coal may be the order of about __________ percent.
- (A) 2.5
- (B) 7.5
- (C) 10.5
- (D) 14.5
8. The ratio of % total carbon obtained in the ultimate analysis of coke and % fixed carbon obtained in the proximate analysis is always
- (A) 1
- (B) < 1
- (C) > 1
- (D) Unpredictable
9. Caking index of the coal blend used for the manufacture of metallurgical coke should be around
- (A) 5
- (B) 21
- (C) 40
- (D) 48
10. Coalification means the
- (A) Process of conversion of lignite into anthracite
- (B) Underground gasification of coal
- (C) Complete combustion of coal
- (D) Direct hydrogenation of coal
11. Main constituent of the gas produced from a gobar (cow dung) gas plant is
- (A) CO2
- (B) CH4
- (C) H2
- (D) CO
12. Washing of coal
- (A) Reduces its ash & sulphur content
- (B) Improves its coking properties
- (C) Increase the fusion point of its ash by removing chlorine compounds
- (D) All (a), (b) and (c)
13. Cannel coal and boghead coal are the examples of
- (A) Humic coals
- (B) Liptobiolites
- (C) Sapropelic coals
- (D) None of these
14. Bituminous coal
- (A) Ignites less easily than anthracite
- (B) Is generally coking
- (C) Burns with smoky yellow flame
- (D) Both (b) and (c)
15. Which of the following is not endothermic?
- (A) Cracking
- (B) Reforming
- (C) Gasification
- (D) Partial oxidation
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