Performance of

steam engine
system
RESEARCH QUESTION RELATED TO THE TITLE
 LIST OF QUESTIONS(why?, what? and how?)
1. How steam flow rate effects the engine 16. How can steam makes the engine works?
performance? 17. What components involve in steam engine?
2. How does steam engine work? 18. Why steam engine is important?

3. Why the boiler affect the steam pressure? 19. How the steam engine rated?
20. What quantity/type of source energy is
4. What is the advantage of using steam engine? considered as good?
5. How can it ease peoples life? 21. How many types of steam engine exist?
6. How can the size of boiler affect its 22. Why steam engine need improvement?
performance? 23. How can we improve steam engine?
7. What is the best method to generate steam? 24. Why pistons effect the steam engine
performance?
8. How effective is steam engine?
25. What improvement that has been made on
9. What does it cost using the steam engine? steam engine?

10. Why steam engine is not too commercial these 26. How much heat generated in the furnace is
utilized as useful work?
days?
27. What is the disadvantages of steam engine?
11. How to increase the performance of the steam
engine? 28. How to overcome the problems occurred in
steam engine?
12. What theories involved in steam engine? 29. What type of steam engine is more efficient and
economical?
13. What problems that steam engine have?
30. How to measure the performance of steam
14. Why the source of energy affect the steam engine?
engine performance?
15. What effects the performance of steam
5 main questions chosen

1. How to increase the performance of steam engine?

2. How does steam engine work?
3. How effective is steam engine?
4. What problems that steam engine have?
5. Why steam engine is important?
Main questions with sub-questions
1. How to increase the performance of steam engine? 3. How effective is steam engine?
Why the source of energy affect the steam engine What is the advantage of using steam engine?
performance?
What does it cost using the steam engine?
How steam flow rate effects the engine performance?
What effects the performance of steam engine?
What is the best method to generate the steam?
What is the disadvantage of steam engine
How can the size of boilers affect its performance?
How to measure the performance of steam engine?
How steam pressure affect the performance?
Why the boiler affect the steam pressure?
4. What problems that steam engine have?
Why steam engine is not too commercial these days?
Why pistons affect the steam engine performance?
2. How does steam engine work?
How to overcome the problems in the steam engine?
What theories involved in steam engine?
How can steam makes the engine works?
5. Why steam engine is important?
What components involved in steam engine?
Why steam engine need improvements?
How the steam engine rated?
How can we improve steam engine?
What quantity/type of source energy is considered as
good? What improvements that have been made on steam
engine?
How can it ease peoples life?
Listing out the less important
questions
1. How to increase the performance of steam engine?
Why the boiler affect the steam pressure?(quite similar to other sub-question)

2. How does steam engine work?

How can steam makes the engine works?(quite similar with other sub question)
How the steam engine rated?(can be explained from main question)

3. How effective is steam engine?

Why the source of energy affect the steam engine performance? (quite similar with other sub question)
What is the disadvantage of steam engine?(can be put together into other sub question; advantages)

4. What problems that steam engine have?

Why pistons affect the steam engine performance? (can be explained from main question)

5. Why steam engine is important?

How can it ease peoples life (similar to other question0