Polytechnic University of the Philippines b. Brayton cycle 9.

An American type wind mill with an

MEEN 30404 (ME Integrative Course) c. Joule cycle aerodynamic efficiency of 10% is wanted
Evaluation Exam (Past pre-board exam, d. Atkinson cycle to pump 38 liters/min from well to a
Mar.2018) tank located at 18.3 meter above the
June 22, 2023 5. The process of returning spent water surface of the well when the wind
Power and Industrial Plant Engineering geothermal fluids to the subsurface is has a velocity of 30 kph. Consider that
called frictional losses of the system divert
a. Returning 30% of the energy received by the
Directions: Select the correct answer for b. Injection wheel. What well diameter is needed?
each of the following questions. Mark only c. Rejection a. 1.7 m
one answer for each item by marking the box d. Exhaustion b. 2.5 m
corresponding to the letter of your choice on c. 1.5 m
the answer sheet provided. Indicate the SET 6. The specific speed of turbine is 85 rpm d. 3.4 m
of your questionnaire by shading it in your and running at 450 rpm. If the load
answer sheet. Strictly No Erasures Allowed. head is 20 m and generator efficiency 10. A high velocity flow of gas at
Use ballpen in shading. is 90%, what is the maximum power 800 ft/s possesses kinetic energy
delivers by the generator? nearest to which of the following?
1. A 35.0 mL of gas is enclosed in a flask a. 450.51 kW a. 1.03 BTU/lb
at 22°𝐶. If the flask was placed in an b. 354.52 kW b. 4.10 BTU/lb
ice bath at 0°𝐶,what would be the new c. 650.53 kW c. 9.95 BTU/lb
gas volume be if the pressure is held d. 835.57 kW d. 12.8 BTU/lb
constant?
a. 34.1 mL 7. The small reservoir in which the water 11. Forced draft towers can cool the
b. 31.1 mL level rises or falls to reduce the water within
c. 32.29 mL pressure swings so that they are not a. 10 to 12 F
d. 33.1 mL transmitted to the closed conduit is b. 5 to 6 F
called c. 20 to 24 F
2. Determine the stoichiometric air – fuel a. Penstock d. 2.5 to 3 F
ratio of one mole of Dodecane. Assume b. Power reservoir
complete combustion. c. Pressure tank 12. The machine foundation must have
a. 14.88 d. Tunnel a factor of safety of:
b. 14.95 a. 4
c. 15.38 8. A 18000 kW geothermal plant has a b. 5
d. 15.60 generator efficiency and turbine c. 6
efficiency of 90% and 80% respectively, d. 7
3. In an air standard OTTO cycle, the the quality after throttling is 20% and
clearance volume is 18% of the each well discharges 400,000 kg/hr, 13. Heat is transferred from hot
displacement volume. Find the thermal determine the number of well required water to an oil in a double-pipe
efficiency. to produce if the change in enthalpy at counter-flow heat exchanger. Water
a. 0.52 entrance and exit of turbines is 500 enters the outer pipe at 120°𝐶 and exits
b. 0.53 kJ/kg. at 55°𝐶 while the oil enters the inner
c. 0.55 a. 8 wells pipe at 26°𝐶 and exits at 65°𝐶. What is
d. 0.60 b. 6 wells the log-mean temperature difference
c. 4 well (LMTD)?
4. A constant volume combustion gas d. 2 well a. 42.60 °𝐶
turbine operates on: b. 46.20°𝐶
a. Ericson cycle c. 40.62°𝐶
 d. 42.06°𝐶 b. 0.30 24. Ten kilograms per second of steam
c. 0.40 enter the turbine with an enthalpy of
14. A twin cylinder ammonia d. 0.50 3200 kJ/kg and enter the condenser with
compressor with a volume displacement an enthalpy of 2500 kJ/kg in Rankine
of 14,726 cm3 operates at 300 rpm. 19. Calculate the higher heating cycle. If the turbine efficiency is 80%
Condenser and evaporator pressure are value of liquid dodecane fuel. and the generator efficiency is 90%,
1200 kPa and 227 kPa respectively. a. 48,255 kJ/kg determine the power plant output.
Specific volume of refrigerant at the b. 55,641 kJ/kg a. 4320 kW
entrance of compressor is 528.26 L/kg. c. 48,255 kJ/kg b. 3213 kW
Compression process is polytropic with d. 60,221 kJ/kg c. 4056 kW
n=1.2 and clearance factor of d. 5040 kW
compressor is 2 percent. Determine 20. A diesel power plant consumed 1
horsepower required. m3 of fuel with 30°𝐴𝑃𝐼 at 27°𝐶 in 24 hrs. 25. What is the hydraulic gradient of
a. 60 hp Calculate the fuel rate in kg/hr. a 1 mile, 17 inches inside diameter
b. 70 hp a. 26.25 pipe when 3300 gal/min of water flow
c. 80 hp b. 29.34 with f = 0.03
d. 90 hp c. 36.21 a. 0.00614
d. 39.42 b. 0.00714
15. A vertical turbine pump with the c. 0.00234
jump and motor closed coupled and 21. Which of the following is d. 0.00334
design to be installed underground, as equivalent to 1 lb?
in the case of a deepwell pump. a. 500 grains 26. In a gas turbine unit, air enters
a. Horizontal split case pump b. 6000 grains the combustion chamber at 550 kPa, 277
b. Booster pump c. 7000 grains °𝐶and 43 m/s. The products of
c. Submersible pump d. 8000 grains combustion leave the combustor at 511
d. Vertical turbines pump kPa, 1004 °𝐶 and 180 m/s. Liquid fuel
22. A fuel oil is reported as having enters with a heating value of 43000
16. Forced drafts fans are run at a higher heating value of 45,039 kJ/kg. kJ/kg for fuel-air ratio of 0.0229,
relatively high speeds in the range of What is the probable API gravity of the what is the combustor efficiency of the
a. 1500 to 2000 rpm fuel oil? unit in percent?
b. 1200 to 1800 rpm a. 20°𝐴𝑃𝐼 a. 70.38 %
c. 1000 to 1600 rpm b. 24°𝐴𝑃𝐼 b. 79.38 %
d. 900 to 1500 rpm c. 28°𝐴𝑃𝐼 c. 75.38 %
d. 32°𝐴𝑃𝐼 d. 82.38 %
17. The ratio of the actual vapor
density to the vapor density at 23. An Ideal Dual Combustion cycle 27. Three-hundred kilojoules of heat
saturation operates on 500 grams of air. At the flow by conduction from the outside to
a. Absolute humidity beginning of the compression, the air the inside of a cold storage in one
b. Humidity ratio hour. If the temperature and all other
is at 100 kPa, 45°𝐶. If rp = 1.5, rc =
c. Relative humidity conditions are the same, what is the
1.65, and rk = 10, determine the cycle
d. Saturation ratio heat flowing through the cold storage
efficiency.
a. 53.88% room in two hours?
18. A coil has an inlet temperature a. 300 kJ
b. 54.88%
of 60°𝐹 and outlet of 90°𝐹. If the mean c. 55.88% b. 600 kJ
temperature of the coil is 110°𝐹, find d. 56.88% c. 900 kJ
the bypass factor of the coil. d. 1200 kJ
a. 0.20
28. A liquid dominated geothermal b. Feedwater a. 29.34 Pa
plant with a single flash separator c. Evaporator b. 30.52 Pa
receives water at 204 °𝐶. The separator d. Heat exchanger c. 25.27 Pa
pressure is 1.04 Mpa. A direct contact d. 37.26 Pa
condenser operates at 0.034 Mpa. The 33. The refrigerant volume flow rate
turbine has a polytropic efficiency of at entrance at the entrance of 38. A diesel power plant uses fuel
0.75 for a cycle output of 60 MW, what compressor were obtained from a test on with heating value of 43,000 kJ/kg.
is the mass flow rate of the well water a twin cylinder, single acting 15cm x What is the density of the fuel at 25°𝐶?
in kg/s? 20 cm, 320 rpm compressor ammonia a. 840 kg/m3
a. 2100 refrigerating plant to be 33 L/s. b. 873 kg/m3
b. 2933 Determine the volumetric efficiency of c. 970 kg/m3
c. 1860 the compressor. d. 940 kg/m3
d. 2444 a. 77.65%
b. 87.60% 39. Compute the velocity head of
29. A solar collecting panel 20 m2 in c. 97.6% water if it flows in a pipe at 10 m/s.
area receives solar energy at the rate d. 65.65% a. 50.1 m
of 750 W/m2. It is estimated that 35% b. 10.2 m
of the incident energy is lost to 34. What is the power ratio of a pump c. 5.1 m
surrounding; Water enters the panel at and its 1/5 scale model if the ratio of d. 100 m
steady flow rate of 0.05 kg/s at 15°𝐶. heads is 4 to 1?
Calculate the temperature of water a. 20 40. An oxygen cylinder of volume 2.3
leaving the collecting panel. Change in b. 200 ft3 has a pressure of 2200 psig and is
elevation of water is 2 meters. c. 12.5 at 70°𝐹. Determine the mass of oxygen
a. 54.45 °𝐶 d. 125 in the cylinder.
b. 61.56 °𝐶 a. 30.44 lbs
35. Axial fans are best suitable for b. 26.88 lbs
c. 71.45 °𝐶
application. c. 34.30 lbs
d. 45.76 °𝐶 a. High head, large flow d. 28.66 lbs
b. Large flow, low head
30. The simultaneous demand of all c. Low flow, high head
customers required at any specified 41. Consider 1 kg of air at 32°𝐶 that
d. Low flow, medium head expanded by a reversible polytropic
point in an electric power system is
called process with n=1.25 until the pressure
36. Fifty kilograms of cooling water is halved: Determine the heat transfer.
a. Demand
per second enter the condenser at 25°𝐶 Specific heat at contant volume for air
b. Electric demand
c. Power demand and leaves at 50°𝐶. Find the heat is 0.1786 kJ/kg.K.
d. Load carried away by water. a. 7.05 kJ heat rejected
a. 1234.45 kW b. 7.05 KJ heat added
31. The Diesel engine foundation b. 5233.75 kW c. 17.02 kJ heat rejected
safe soil bearing pressure is: c. 2340.52 kW d. 17.02 kJ heat added
a. 4,125 kg/cm2 d. 3140.25 kW
b. 4,890 kg/cm2 42. Determine the equivalence ratio
c. 4,500 kg/cm2 37. Compute the pressure drop of 30°𝐶 of the following mixture: 4 grams of
d. 4,490 kg/cm2 air flowing with a mean velocity of Butane, C4H10 and 75 grams of air.
8m/s in a circular sheet-metal duct 300 a. 0.92
32. The device that transfer thermal mm in diameter and 15 m long. Use b. 1.02
energy from one fluid to another friction factor, f = 0.02, and 𝜌air = c. 0.82
a. Condenser 1.1644 kg/m3. d. 1.22
 c. Felsite b. 50.54 kW
43. The compression ratio and the cut d. Flux c. 70.49 kW
off ratio of an ideal Diesel cycle are d. 132.46 kW
13 and 3 respectively. What is the 49. A windmill with a 6 m radius
cycle efficiency for a cold air rotor is to be installed where 54. Calculate drive horsepower for
standard value of k? atmospheric pressure conditions pumping 1703 L/min cold water to a tank
a. 43.20% prevail at 101.325 kPa and 21°𝐶. It was suction at 127 mmHg vacuum, delivery at
b. 55.21% observed that wind is blowing steadily 5.3 kg/cm2, both measured close to
c. 53.20% at an average velocity of 20 m/s. pump, ep = 0.65.
d. 45.21% Assuming that the conversion a. 54.42 Hp
efficiency is somewhere between 20% to b. 43.02 Hp
44. Determine the quality of steam in 25%, determine the maximum available c. 50.42 Hp
a vessel containing 2 kg of saturated power from the windmill. d. 31.42 Hp
vapor and 8 kg of saturated liquid. a. 124.78 kW
a. 100 % b. 167.25 kW 55. Determine the critical radius in
b. 20 % c. 225.78 kW cm for an asbestos-cement covered pipe
c. 80 % d. 135.81 kW [kasb = 0.208 W/m-K]. The external heat-
d. 60% transfer coefficient is 1.5 Btu/hr-ft2-
50. When was the FIRST operation of °𝐹.
45. Find the loss of head in the pipe the world’s FIRST Hydroelectric Power a. 2.35 cm
entrance if speed of flow is 10 m/s. Plant? b. 3.55 cm
a. 5.10 a. Sep.4, 1882 c. 2.66 cm
b. 10.2 b. Sep.30, 1882 d. 2.44 cm
c. 17.4 c. Feb.14, 1890
d. 2.55 d. Mar.21, 1891 56. A room being air conditioned is
being held at 25°𝐶 dry bulb and 50%
46. The indicated thermal efficiency 51. The weight of the machine relative humidity. A flow rate of 5 m3/s
of a two stroke diesel engine is 60%. foundation is how many times of the of supply air at 15°𝐶 dry bulb and 80%
If friction is 15% of heat generated, weight of the engine? RH is being delivered to the room to
determine the brake thermal a. 2 to 3 times maintain that steady condition at 100
efficiency. b. 3 to 5 times kPa. What is the sensible heat absorbed
a. 43% c. 4 to 5 times from the room air in kW?
b. 45% d. 4 to 6 times a. 50.8
c. 36% b. 60.8
d. 37% 52. How many watts will be radiated c. 40.5
47. Determine the specific weight of from a spherical black body 15 cm in d. 70.9
air at 760 mmHg absolute and 22 °𝐶? diameter at a temperature of 800 °𝐶?
a. 3.517 kW a. 3.34 kW 57. A Pelton wheel has a capacity of
b. 12,000 Btu/hr b. 4.34 kW 25,000 kW with head of 290m. Compute
c. 211 kJ/min c. 6.34 kW the number of jet needed for this
d. All of these d. 5.34 kW turbine if the nozzle jet diameter is
200 mm.
48. A dense, fine grained, light 53. A two-stage compressor receives a. 1
colored igneous rock which is rich in 0.35 kg/s of air at 100 kPa and 269 K b. 2
silica. and delivers it at 5000 kPa. Find the c. 3
a. Flint heat transferred in the intercooler. d. 4
b. Feldspar a. 79.57 kW
58. The flow energy of 124 Liters/min 62. An Otto Engine has a clearance 67. An opening in lava or in volcanic
of a fluid passing a boundary to system volume of 7%. It produces 300 kW of area through which steam and other hot
is 108.5 kJ/min. Determine the pressure power. What is the amount of heat gases are escaping into the air is
at this point. rejected in kW? called:
a. 575 kPa a. 170 a. Seismic outlets
b. 675 kPa b. 160 b. Volcanic leaks
c. 875 kPa c. 152 c. Fumarole
d. 975 kPa d. 145 d. Seismic leaks

59. A 145,000 kW turbo-generator 63. The condenser of reheat power 68. Tidal wave is power generated
requires 690,000 kg/hr of steam at plant rejects heat at the rate of 500 from:
rated load and 23,000 kg/hr of steam at kW. The mass flow rate of cooling water a. Raw sea water
zero load. Determine the steam rate, in is 5 kg/s and the inlet cooling water b. Waves of the ocean
kg/kW-hr at 75% of its rated load. temperature is 35°𝐶. Calculate the c. Thermal energy of ocean water
a. 2.81 condenser cooling water exit d. Rise and fall tides
b. 3.81 temperature.
c. 4.81 a. 45.35 °𝐶 69. The First Hydroelectric Power
d. 5.81 b. 53.45 °𝐶 Plant in the Philippines?
c. 63.66 °𝐶 a. Bacon Hydropower
60. A reversed Carnot cycle has a b. Magat A
d. 74.34 °𝐶
refrigerating COP of 2.5. Determine the c. Caliraya Hydropower Plant
ratio TH/TL? d. Augus 1 Hydropower Plant
64. Compute the mass of a 2 m3 propane
a. 1.5
b. 1.4 at 280 kPa and 40°𝐶. 70. Foundation bolt length should be
c. 1.25 a. 6.47 kg at least how many times the anchor bolt
d. 1.2 b. 5.1 kg diameter?
c. 10.20 kg a. 16 times
61. A certain coal has the following d. 9.47 kg b. 20 times
ultimate analysis: c. 18 times
C = 70.5% H = 4.5% O2 = 6% 65. A 305 mm x 457 mm four stroke d. 30 times
N2 = 1.0% single acting diesel engine is rated at
S = 3.0% Ash = 11% 150 kW at 260 rpm. Fuel consumption at 71. A cubical tank of 2 m sides is
Moisture = 4% rated load is 0.56 kg/kW-hr with a constructed of metal plate 12 mm and
A stoker fired boiler of 175,000 kg.hr heating value of 43912 kJ/kg. Calculate
contains water at 75°𝐶. The surrounding
steaming capacity uses this coal as the brake thermal efficiency.
a. 10.53% air temperature is 16°𝐶. Calculate the
fuel. Calculate the volume of air in overall heat transfer coefficient from
b. 27.45%
m3/hr with air at 60°𝐹 (15.6°𝐶) and 14.7 water to air. Take the coefficient of
c. 14.64%
psia (101.325 kPa) the coal is burned thermal conductivity of the metal as 48
d. 18.23%
with 30% excess air. Boiler efficiency W/m-K, the coefficient of heat transfer
of 70 % and factor of evaporation of of water is 2.5 kW/m2-K and the
66. Find the work process for a
1.10. coefficient of heat transfer of the air
a. 221,861.04 m3/hr Helium gas at 20°𝐶.
is 16 W/m2-K.
b. 212,861.04 m3/hr a. 168 kJ/kg
a. 14.84 W/m2-C
c. 218,261.04 m3/hr b. 609 kJ/kg
b. 15.84 W/m2-C
d. 281,261.04 m3/hr c. 229 kJ/kg
c. 16.84 W/m2-C
d. 339 kJ/kg
d. 13.84 W/m2-C
72. The weight of ammonia circulated 77. Compute the specific weight of c. 14 kJ
in a machine is found to be 21.8 lb/hr. mercury if its specific gravity is d. 17 kJ
If the vapor enters the compressor with 13.6.
a specific volume of 9.6 ft3/lb, a. 123.5 kN/m3 82. In a rankine cycle enters the
calculate the piston displacement, b. 133.4 kN/m3 turbine at 2.5 Mpa (enthalpies &
assuming 80% volume efficiency. c. 138.2 kN/m3 entropies given) and condenser of 50
a. 291.6 ft3/hr d. 173.2 kN/m3 kPa (properties given), what is the
b. 281.8 ft3/hr thermal efficiency of the cycle?
c. 271.6 ft3/hr 78. What happens to the pressure of a. 12.34%
d. 261.6 ft3/hr an ideal gas if its initial volume is b. 25.55%
compressed to one-half of its original c. 45.23%
73. An impulse wheel at best produces volume and twice its temperature? d. 34.23%
125 hp under a head of 210 ft. by what a. Doubles
percent should be increased for 290 ft b. Remains the same 83. Find the enthalpy of Helium if
head? c. Quadruples its internal energy is 200 kJ/kg.
a. 12.5% d. Reduced by 50% a. 144 kJ/kg
b. 82.5% b. 223.42 kJ/kg
c. 17.5% 79. The thermal efficiency of a c. 332.42 kJ/kg
d. 72.41% Carnot cycle operating between 170°𝐶 d. 168 kJ/kg
and 620°𝐶 to:
74. A small blower handles 43.33 m3 a. 44% 84. A 29.53” x 39.37” pressure vessel
of air per minute whose density is b. 50% contains ammonia with f = 0.041.
1.169 kg/m3. The static and velocity c. 63% Compute the minimum required discharge
heads are 16.38 and 1.22 cm WG (at d. 73% capacity of the relief device in kg/hr.
15.6°𝐶) respectively. Local gravity a. 106.71 kg/hr
acceleration is 9.741 m/s2. Find the 80. Fuel oil in a day tank for use of b. 108.71 kg/hr
power input to the air from the blower. an industrial boiler is tested with c. 110.71 kg/hr
a. 1.64 kW hydrometer. The hydrometer reading d. 112.71 kg/hr
b. 1.91 kW indicates a S.G. = 0.924 when the
c. 1.76 kW temperature of the oil in the tank is 85. Compute the maximum length of the
d. 1.24 kW 35 °𝐶. Calculate the higher heating discharge pipe installed on the outlet
value. of a pressure-relief device in feet for
75. Sometime called specific a. 48,352.13 kJ/kg internal pipe diameter of 0.5 in and
humidity b. 53,852.13 kJ/kg rated discharge capacity is 8 lb/min of
a. Relative humidity c. 43,852.13 kJ/kg air. The rated pressure of relief valve
b. Absolute humidity d. 58,352.13 kJ/kg is 16 psig.
c. Humidity ratio a. 0.586 ft
d. Saturation ratio 81. Air in the cylinder of a Diesel b. 0.486 ft
engine is at 30°𝐶 and 138 kPaa in c. 0.386 ft
76. What is the chemical formula of compression. If it is further d. 0.286 ft
an Aromatic type of hydrocarbon fuels? compresses to one-eighteenth of its
a. CnH2n-2 original volume which of the following 86. In a hot rock systems, water is
b. CnH2n-6 most nearly equals the work done in injected through injection wells into
c. CnH2n compression if the displacement volume artificially made fractured rock beds
d. CnH2n+2 of the cylinder is 14.2 liters? of how many kilometers below the
a. 8 kJ surface?
b. 11 kJ a. 6 to 11 km
 b. 3 to 9 km 97. Water (specific heat Cv = 4.2
c. 4 to 10 km 92. A pump delivers 20 cfm of water kJ/kg-K) is being heated by a 1500W
d. 1 to 6 km having a density of 62 lb/ft3. The heater. What is the rate of change in
suction and discharge gage reads 5 temperature of 1kg of the water?
87. Converts chemical energy in.Hg vacuum and 30 psi respectively. a. 0.043 K/s
directly into electrical energy. The discharge gage is 5 ft above the b. 0.179 K/s
a. Battery suction gage. If pump efficiency is c. 0.357 K/s
b. Magnetohydrodynamic generator 70%, what is the motor power? d. 1.50 K/s
c. Thermoelectric generator a. 5.31 Hp
d. Fuel cell b. 3.31 Hp 98. What is the root-mean-squared
c. 4.31 Hp velocity of oxygen molecules at a
88. A mixture of hydrogen and carbon d. 6.31 Hp temperature of 70℉?
monoxide made by passing steam over hot a. 2571 ft/s
coke. 93. A blower operating at 15000 rpm b. 1571 ft/s
a. Hydrocarbon compresses air from 20°𝐶 and 1atm to c. 1310 ft/s
b. Water gas 1.68atm. The design flow is 38 m3/min d. 3272 ft/s
c. Water vapor at this point the power input is 60 kW.
d. Air Determine the blower efficiency at the 99. For mercury and glass what is the
design flow. approximate contact angle?
89. The weight of steel bar a. 65% a. 0 deg
reinforcements should be how many times b. 64.91% b. 90 deg
the weight of the foundation? c. 59.81% c. 140 deg
a. 1% to 1.5% d. 60.01% d. None of these
b. 3.2% to 4.2%
c. 3% to 5% 94. A rectangular duct has a 100. If the atmospheric pressure is
d. 1/2% to 1% dimensions of 0.25 m by 1m. Determine 95.7 kPa and the gage attached to the
the equivalent diameter of the duct. tank reads 188 mmHg vacuum, find the
90. A counterflow heat exchanger is a. 0.30 m absolute pressure within the tank.
designed to heat fuel oil from 45°𝐶 to b. 0.40 m a. 89.53 kPa
100°𝐶 while the heating fluid enters at c. 0.70 m b. 31.2 kPa
150°𝐶 and leaves at 115°𝐶. Calculate the d. 0.60 m c. 42.3 kPa
arithmetic temperature difference. d. 79.62 kPa
a. 40°𝐶 95. For complete wetting, what is the
b. 50°𝐶 contact angle for water and glass?
a. 140 deg. *** God Bless ***
c. 60°𝐶
b. 0 deg.
d. 70°𝐶 c. 90 deg.
d. 110 deg.
91. An air compressor is to compress
8.5 m3/min from 98.56 kPa to 985.6 kPa. 96. Water is heaviest at what
Assuming ideal conditions, and with n temperature?
= 1.3, what will be the saving in work a. 0 deg. C
due to two staging? b. 100 deg. C
a. 4.6 kW c. 273 K
b. 1.2 kW d. 4 deg. C
c. 5.6 kW
d. 3.5 kW