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1. A turbine has a mechanical efficiency of 93% volumetric

efficiency of 95% and total efficiency of 82%. If effective head
is 40m, find the total head.
A. 48.72 m C. 40.72 m
B. 36.22 m D. 34.72 m
Ans. B

2. The initial condition of air in an air compressor is 98 Kpa

and 27⁰C and discharges air at 450 Kpa. The bore and stroke are
355 mm and 381 mm, respectively with percent clearance of 8%
running at 300 rpm. Find the volume of air at suction.
A. 541.62 m3/hr C. 561.62 m3/hr
B. 551.62 m /hr3 D. 571.62 m3/hr
Ans. D
3. A single acting air compressor has a volumetric efficiency of
89% operates at 500 rpm. It takes in air at 100 Kpa and 30⁰C and
discharges it at 600 Kpa. The air handled is 8 m3/min measured at
discharge condition. If compression is isentropic, find mean
effective pressure in Kpa.
A. 233.34 C. 198.34
B. 973.17 D. 204.82
Ans. A
4. An auditorium seating 1500 people is to be maintained at 80⁰F dry bulb and 65⁰F wet
bulb temperature when outdoor air is at 91⁰F dry bulb and 75⁰F wet bulb. Solar heat
load is 110,000 Btu/hr and supply air is at 60⁰F, determine the amount of supply air.
A. 93,229.17 lb/hr C. 73,229.17 lb/hr
B. 83, 229.17 lb/hr D. 63,229.17 lb/hr
Ans. A
5. At 35% solution leaves the absorber and 30% solution enters
the absorber. The heat removed from the absorber by cooling
water is 547.6 Btu and ammonia is superheated by 10⁰. Find the
pound per pound of ammonia gas from the evaporating coils.
A. 11 C. 13
B. 14 D. 12
Ans. C
6. A 300 mm diameter pipe discharges water at the rate of 200
li/s. Point 1 on the pipe has a pressure of 260 kpa and 3.4 m
below point 1 is point 2 with a pressure of 300 kpa. Compute the
head loss between points 1 and 2.
A. 4.29 m C. 6.32 m
B. 2.59 m D. 1.87 m
Ans. D
7. Carbon dioxide flows through a nozzle with a speed of 380
m/s. the entrance condition of nozzle is 250⁰C and 1200Kpa. Find
the stagnation pressure.
A. 2,136.34 kpa C. 2,156.34 kpa
B. 2,146.34 kpa D. 2,166.34 kpa
Ans. A
8. A 50 kg block of iron casting at 500K is thrown into a large
lake that is at a temperature 285 deg K. The iron block
eventually reaches thermal equilibrium with the lake water.
Assuming average specific heat of 0.45 KJ/kg-K for the iron,
determine the entropy generated during the process.
A. -12.65 KJ/K C. 4.32 KJ/K
B.16.97 KJ/K D. 6.32 KJ/K
Ans. A
9. A windmill with a 12 m diameter rotor is to be installed at a
location where the wind is blowing at an average velocity of 10
m/s. Using standard condition of air (1 atm, 25 deg C),
determine the maximum power can be generated by the windmill.
A. 68 KW C. 72 KW
B. 74 KW D. 70 KW
Ans. D
10. A rigid tank contains 2 kmol of N2 and 6 kmol of CO2 gases at
300 deg K and 115 Mpa. Find the tank volume using ideal gas
equation.
A. 7.33 m3 C. 3.33 m3
B. 5.33 m3 D. 1.33 m3
Ans. D
11. A 10 cm diameter spherical ball whose surface is maintained
at a temperature of 70 deg C is suspended in the middle of a
room at 20 deg C. If the convection heat transfer coefficient is
15 W/m2-C and the emissivity of the surface is 0.8, determine the
total heat transfer from the ball;
A. 23.56 watts C. 9.22 watts
B. 32.77 watts D. 43.45 watts
Ans. B
12. A classroom that normally contains 40 people is to be air-
conditioned with window air-conditioning units of 5 KW cooling
capacity. A person at rest may be assumed to dissipate heat at a
rate of about 360 KJ/hr. These are 10 light bulbs in the room,
each with a rating of 100 watts. The rate of heat transfer to
the classroom through the temperature of 21 deg C, determine the
number of window air-conditioning units required.
A. 1 units C. 3 units
B. 2 units D. 4 units
Ans. B
13. An ideal gas with molecular weight of 7.1 kg/kg mol is
compressed from 600 kpa and 280 deg K to a final specific volume
of 0.5 m3/kg. Calculate the work of compression in KJ/kg?
A. 32.8 C. 35.6
B. 33.3 D. 28.7
Ans. B
14. A thermoelectric refrigerator that resembles a small ice
chest is powered by a car battery, and has a COP of 0.10. If the
refrigerator cools a 0.350 L canned drink from 20 deg C to 40
deg C in 30 min, determine the average electric power consumed
by the thermoelectric refrigerator.
A. 130 W C. 120 W
B. 110 W D. 140 W
Ans. A
15. The system shown in the figure consists in part of
transformer serving customer x,y,z. Estimate the peak load on
this transformer.
X – store building with 5 kW lighting, 25 kW small motor power.
Y – store building with 18 kW, 35 kW small motor power.
Z – office building with 55 kW lighting, 80 kW large motor
power.
A. 75.08 kW C. 95.84 kW
B. 85.07 kW D. 105.76 kW
Ans. B
16. A steam turbine with 80% stage efficiency receives steam at
7 MPa and 550⁰C and exhaust as 20 kPa. Determine the quality at
exhaust. At 7 MPa and 550⁰C: h1= 3530.9 kJ/kg s1= 6.9486 At 20 kPa
(0.020 MPa): sf= 0.8320 hf= 251.40
A. 96.96 % C. 82.34 %
B. 76.34 % D. 91.96 %
Ans. A
17. A 18,000 kW geothermal plant has a generator efficiency and
turbine efficiency of 90% and 80%, respectively. If the quality
after throttling is 20% and each well discharges 400,000 kg/hr,
determine the number of wells are required to produce if the
change of enthalpy at entrance and exit of turbine is 500 kJ/kg.
A. 4 wells C. 6 wells
B. 2 wells D. 8 wells
Ans. B
18. The turbine power of a geothermal power plant is 2 MW and
the enthalpy at the inlet of the turbine is 2500 kJ/kg. Steam
flows at the rate of 2.5 kg/s. If the enthalpy at the outlet of
the condenser is 300 kJ/kg and the temperature rise of the
cooling water is 10⁰C, what is the volume flow rate of the
cooling water?
A. 109.37 m3/hr C. 120.37 m3/hr
B. 237.68 m /hr
3 D. 320.47 m3/hr
Ans. C
19. Steam enters the nozzle of an impulse turbine at 2 MPa, 300⁰C
and leaves at 0.30 MPa, 0.98 dry. The angle of the nozzle is 20⁰
to the direction of motion of the blades and blade velocity is
380 m/s. Calculate the velocity of the steam leaving the
nozzles.
A. 829.4 m/s C. 545.7 m/s
B. 924.8 m/s D. 754.8 m/s
Ans. A

20. Dry saturated steam at 8 bar (0.8 MPa) is expanded in

turbine nozzles to a pressure of 5 bar 0.97 dry, Find the
velocity at exit. If the area at exit is 14.5 cm2, find the mass
flow of the steam in kg/s. Steam Properties:
At 5 bar (0.5 MPa) At 8 bar (0.8 Mpa)
hf= 640 kJ/kg vg= 0.3748 m3/kg
hg= 2769 kJ/kg hfg= 2109 kJ/kg
A. 1.625 kg/s, 407.4 m/s C. 2.257 kg/s, 233.8 m/s
B. 2.456 kg/s, 786.5 m/s D. 3.125 kg/s, 125.7 m/s
Ans. A
21. Air is drawn into a gas turbine working on the constant
pressure cycle at 1 bar 21⁰C and compressed to 5.7 bar. The
temperature at the end of heat supply is 680⁰C. Taking expansion
and compression to be adiabatic where Cv= 0.718 kJ/kg-K, Cp=
1.055 kJ/kg-K, calculate the heat energy supplied per kg at
constant pressure.
A. 472 kJ/kg C. 501 kJ/kg
B. 389 kJ/kg D. 489 kJ/kg
Ans. A
22. A double suction heater pump is moving 1.1 liters/s turns at
900 rpm. The pump adds 7 m head of water. What is the specific
speed?
A. 155.1 rpm C. 500.7 rpm
B. 255.7 rpm D. 243.34 rpm
Ans. A
23. A 5 inches diameter cylinder rotates at 3600 rpm. Air is
flowing past the cylinder at 100 ft/s. How much is the lift on
the cylinder per unit length? Th density of air is 0.00234
slug/ft3.
A. 20.15 lb/ft C. 20.75 lb/ft
B. 21.75 lb/ft D. 23.65 lb/ft
Ans. D
24. An average car consumes about 5 L of gasoline a day and the
capacity of the fuel tank of a car is about 50 L. Therefore, a
car needs to be refueled once every 10 days. Also, the density
of gasoline ranges from 0.68 to 0.78 kg/L and its lower heating
value is about 44,000 kJ/kg (that is, 44,000 kJ of heat is
released when 1 kg of gasoline is completely burned). Suppose
all the problems associated with the radioactivity and waste
disposal of nuclear fuels are resolved, and a car is to be
powered by U-235. If a new car comes equipped with 0.1 kg of the
nuclear fuel U-235, determine if this car will ever need
refueling under average driving condition.
A. the car need to be refueled after 10 years
B. the car need to be refueled after 50 years
C. the car does not need to be refueled
D. the car needs to be refueled after 100 years
Ans. C
25. Consider a person standing in a breezy room at 20⁰C.
Determine the total rate of heat transfer from this person if
the exposed surface area and the average outer surface
temperature of the person are 1.6 m2 and 29⁰C, respectively, and
the convection heat transfer coefficient is 6 W/m2-C.
A. 168.1 W C. 137.5 W
B. 174.5 W D. 154.7 W
Ans. A
26. Compute the air flow in ft3/min of mechanical ventilation
required to exhaust an accumulation of refrigerant due to leaks
of the system capable of revolving air from the machinery room
for a mass of 4lbs refrigerant.
A. 200 C. 220
B. 210 D. 230
Answer: A
27. Compute the free aperture cross section in m2 for the
ventilation of a machinery room if the mass of refrigerant IS 9
KG.
A. 0.314 C. 0.514
B. 0.414 D. 0.614
Answer: B
28. A 29.53” X 39.37” pressure vessel contains ammonia with
f=0.041. Compute the minimum required discharge capacity of the
relief device in kg/hr.
A. 106.71 kg/hr C. 110.71 kg/hr
B. 108.71 kg/hr D. 112.71 kg/hr
Answer: C
29. Compute the maximum length of the discharge pipe installed
on the outlet of a pressure-relief device in feet for internal
pipe diameter of 0.5 in and rated discharge capacity is 8 lb/min
of air. The rated pressure of relief valve is 16 psig.
A. 0.286 ft C. 0.486 ft
B. 0.386 ft D. 0.586 ft
Answer: A
30. A 1 m x 1.5 m cylindrical tank is full of oil with S.G =
0.92. Find the force acting at the bottom of the tank in dynes.
106.33 x 10^7 dynes
106.33 x 10^4 dynes
106.33 x 10^5 dynes
106.33 x 10^6 dynes
Answer: D
31. What is the overall efficiency of a 30 MW steam power plant
with a boiler efficiency of 92%, cycle efficiency of 44%,
mechanical loss of 5%, generator efficiency of 93% and gross
power production 32,000 KW?
A. 33.98% C. 35.44%
B. 36.88% D. 38.84%
Answer: B
32. Determine the air standard efficiency of an engine operating
on the diesel cycle with clearance of 6 % when the suction
pressure is 99.97 kpa and the fuel is injected for 7 % of the
stroke. Assume k=1.4
A. 62.11 % C. 73.58 %
B. 51.20 % D. 60.02 %
Answer: A
33. Steam at 1.3 MPa and 250oC in a rigid cylinder is cooled
until the quality is 40%, find the heat rejected from the
cylinder.
A. 1627.71 kJ/kg C. 1234.45 kJ/kg
B. 1533.33 kJ/kg D. 1162.40 kJ/kg
Answer: D
34. Air standard engine has a compression ratio of 18 and a cut-
off ratio of 4. If the intake air pressure and temperature are
100 kPa and 27oC, find the work in KJ per kg.
A. 2976 C. 1582
B. 2166 D. 2751
Answer: D
35. Determine the amount of oxygen if the heating value of fuel
is 26961.45 kJ/kg
A. 1.5% C. 3.5%
B. 2.5% D. 4.5%
Answer: d
36. A superheater steam rankine cycle has turbine inlet
conditions of 17.5 MPa and 530 C expands in a turbine to 0.007
MPa. The turbine and pump polytropic efficiencies are 0.85 and
0.75 respectively, pressure losses between pump and turbine
inlet are 1.5 MPa. What should be the pump work in kJ/kg?
A. 17.34 C.25.32
B. 27.32 D. 47.33
Answer: C
37. A heat exchanger was installed purposely to cool 0.50 kg of
gas per second. Molecular weight is 32 and k=32. The gas is
cooled from 150 c to 80 c. water us available at the rate of
0.30 kg/s and a temperature of 5 deg c. calculate the exit
temperature of the water in C.
A. 44.86 C. 46.45
B. 42.86 D. 40.34
Answer: A
38. . A Pelton wheel running at a speed of 600 rpm is driven by
2 similar jets. At this speed, it transmit 6000 kW to the shaft.
The efficiency of the runner is 90% and the velocity of the
fluid at inlet to the bucket is 50 m/s, estimate the diameter of
each jet.
A. 0.0165 m C. 0.0143 m
B. 0.0435 m D. 0.0123 m
Answer: A
39. Mass of ice at -4C is needed to cool 115 kg of vegetables in
a bunker for24 hours. The initial temperature of vegetables is
assumed that the average temperature inside the bunker is 7 C
within 24 hour period. If the heat gain per hour in the bunker
is 30% of the hear removed to cool the vegetable form 30C to 7C,
what would be the required mass of ice?
a. 27.86
b. 26.57
c. 29.54
d. 37.38
ans. a
40. Freon- 12 leaves the condenser of a condenser of a
refrigerating plant as a saturated liquid at 5.3673 bar. the
evaporator pressure is 1.509 bar and the refrigerant leaves the
evaporator at this pressure and at temperature of -5C. Calculate
the refrigerating effectper kg.
a. 132.88 kJ/kg
b. 123.77 kJ/kg
c. 160.91 kJkg
d. 123.86 kJ/kg
ans. a
41. Compute the humidity ratio of air condensing the density at
35 C and 101kpa is 105 kg/m3
a. 0.036 kgvapor/kgair
b. 0.063 kgvapor/kgair
c. 0.36 kgvapor/kgair
d. 0.63 kgvapor/kgair
ans. a
42. A two pass surface condenser is to be designed using overall
heat transfer coefficient of 480 Btu/ F-ft2 of outside tube
surface. the tubes are to be 1 inch outside diameter with 1/16
in walls (or 7/8 in inside diameter). Entering circulating water
velocity is to be 6 ft/s. Steam enters the condenser at a rate
of 100,000 lb/hr at a pressure of one psia and an enthalpy of
1090 Btu/lb. Condensate leaves at saturated liguid at one psia.
Circulating water enters the condenser at 85 def. F and leaves
at 95 def F. Note: 1 psia condensate has temperature of 101.7
deg F. Wet steam entering becomes condensate at 101.7 def. F
with hf = 69.72 Btu/lb. Calculate the total number of tubes tobe
used in each pass.
a. 18,200 tubes
b. 15,400 tubes
c. 10,450 tubes
d. 11,456 tubes
ans. a
43. A two pass surface condenser is to be designed using overall
heat transfer coefficient of 480 Btu/ F-ft2 of outside tube
surface. the tubes are to be 1 inch outside diameter with 1/16
in walls (or 7/8 in inside diameter). Entering circulating water
velocity is to be 6 ft/s. Steam enters the condenser at a rate
of 100,000 lb/hr at a pressure of one psia and an enthalpy of
1090 Btu/lb. Condensate leaves at saturated liguid at one psia.
Circulating water enters the condenser at 85 def. F and leaves
at 95 def F. Note: 1 psia condensate has temperature of 101.7
deg F. Wet steam entering becomes condensate at 101.7 def. F
with hf = 69.72 Btu/lb. Calculate the total length of the tube
to be used in ft.
a. 123,000ft
b. 324,000ft
c. 742,000ft
d. 543,000ft
ans. c
44. A two pass surface condenser is to be designed using overall
heat transfer coefficient of 480 Btu/ F-ft2 of outside tube
surface. the tubes are to be 1 inch outside diameter with 1/16
in walls (or 7/8 in inside diameter). Entering circulating water
velocity is to be 6 ft/s. Steam enters the condenser at a rate
of 100,000 lb/hr at a pressure of one psia and an enthalpy of
1090 Btu/lb. Condensate leaves at saturated liguid at one psia.
Circulating water enters the condenser at 85 def. F and leaves
at 95 def F. Note: 1 psia condensate has temperature of 101.7
deg F. Wet steam entering becomes condensate at 101.7 def. F
with hf = 69.72 Btu/lb. Calculate the total length of the tube
to be used in ft per tube.
a. 20.4 ft
b. 80.8 ft
c. 17.4 ft
d. 15.5 ft
ans . a
45. A two pass surface condenser is to be designed using overall
heat transfer coefficient of 480 Btu/ F-ft2 of outside tube
surface. the tubes are to be 1 inch outside diameter with 1/16
in walls (or 7/8 in inside diameter). Entering circulating water
velocity is to be 6 ft/s. Steam enters the condenser at a rate
of 100,000 lb/hr at a pressure of one psia and an enthalpy of
1090 Btu/lb. Condensate leaves at saturated liguid at one psia.
Circulating water enters the condenser at 85 def. F and leaves
at 957 def F. Note: 1 psia condensate has temperature of 101.7
deg F. Wet steam entering becomes condensate at 101.7 def. F
with hf = 69.72 Btu/lb. Calculate the total number of tubes to
be used in each pass.
a. 3151 tubes
b. 1315 tubes
c. 5131 tubes
d. 1513 tubes
ans. d
46. How many days would an inventory of 1000 bbl of fuel oil
with a relative density of 0.90 at an operating temperature of
35 C is consumed if used in a 10 MW diesel engine with a full
load brake thermal efficiency of 34% at rated load.
a. 3.0 days
b. 2.5 days
c. 1.8 days
d. 2.0 days
ans. b
47. A tank contains 3ft2 of 120 psig air at 80 F. How many tires
of volume 1.2 ft3 can be inflated to 28psig at 80 F?
a. 5 complete tires
b. 10 complete tires
c. 7 complete tires
d. 3 complete tires
ans. a
48. A 0.30 x 0.40 m branch duct leaves 0.30 x 0.60 main duct at
an angle of 60⁰. The air temperature is 20C. The dimensions of
the main duct remain constant following branch. The flow rate
upstream is 2.7 m3/s. what is the pressure downstream in the main
duct: Note at 20C p = 1.2041kg/m3
a. 346 Pa
b. 436 Pa
c. 634 Pa
d. 643 Pa
ans. a
49. A sudden enlargement in a circular duct measures 0.20m
diameter upstream and 0.40m downstream. The upstream pressure is
150 Pa, downstream pressure is 200Pa. What is the flow rate of
20C air through the fitting? use p=1.2041kg/m3
a. 0.49 m3/s
b. 0.83 m3/s
c. 0.38 m3/s
d. 0.94 m3/s
ans. c
50. The tank of an air compressor has a volume of 3 ft3 and is
filled with air at temperature of 40F. If a gage on the tank
reads 150 psig, what is the mass of air in the tank?
a. 1.78 lbs
b. 2.00 lbs
c. 2.67 lbs
d. 1.98 lbs
ans. a
51. From Steam tables, determine the average constant pressure
specific heat (Cp) of steam at 10 kpa and 45.8 C.
a. 1.79 kJ/kg C
b. 10.28 kJ/kg C
c. 30.57 kJ/kg C
d. 100.1 kJ/kg C
ans. a
52. A 10 m3 vessel initially contains 5m3 liquid water and 5m3 of
saturated water vapor at 100 kpa. Calculate the internal energy
of the system using the steam tables.
a. 5 x 105 kJ
b. 8 x 105 kJ
c. 1 x 106 kJ
d. 2 x 106 kJ
ans. d
53. A vessel with volume of 1 cubic meter contains liquid water
and water vapor equilibrium at 600kpa. The liquid water has a
mass of 1kg. Using the steam tables, calculate the mass of the
water vapor.
a. 0.99kg
b. 1.57kg
c. 3.16kg
d. 2.54kg
ans. c
54. Calculate the entropy of steam at 60 psia with a quality of
0.6.
a. 0.4274 Btu/lbm-R
b. 0.5395 Btu/lbm-R
c. 1.1577 Btu/lbm-R
d. 1.2172 Btu/lbm-R
ans. c
55. If 1 lbm of steam at 14.7 psia, 63% quality is heated
isentropically, at what pressure will it reach the saturated
vapor state?
a. 56 psia
b. 313 psia
c. 1852 psia
d. 2585 psia
ans. d
56. A 5m3 vessel initially contains 50kg of liquid water and
saturated water vapor at total internal energy of 27,300kJ.
Calculate the heat requirement to vaporize all of the liquid.
a. 100,000kJ
b. 200,000kJ
c. 300,000kJ
d. 400,000kJ
ans. a
57. In an isentropic compression, p1= 200 psi, p2= 300 psia,V1=
10 in3, and n =1.4. Find V2
a. 3.509 in3
b. 4.500 in3
c. 5.000 in3
d. 6.095 in3
ans. d
58. An isobaric steam generating process starts with saturated
liquid at 20 psia. The change in entropy is equal to the initial
entropy. What is the change in enthalpy during the process?
a. -230.4 Btu/lbm
b. 230.4 Btu/lbm
c. 0 Btu/lbm
d. 196.2 Btu/lbm
ans. b
59. A cylinder and piston arrangement contains saturated water
vapor at 110C. The vapor is compressed in a reversible adiabatic
process until the pressure is 1.6 Mpa. Determine the work done
by the system per kilogram of water.
a. -637 kJ/kg
b. -509 kJ/kg
c. -432 kJ/kg
d. -330 kJ/kg
Ans. C
60. Helium is compressed isothermally from 14.7psia and 68F. The
compression ratio is 4. Calsulate the change in entropy of the
gasgiven that RHe= -0.4961 Btu/lbm R
a. -2.76 Btu/lbm-R
b. -0.689 Btu/lbm-R
c. 0 Btu/lbm-R
d. 0.689 Btu/lbm-R
Ans. B
61. Two hundred milliliters of oxygen gas (O2) are collected over
water at 23C and a pressure of 1 atm. What volume would the
oxygen occupy dry at 273 K and 1 atm?
a. 179.3 ml
b. 184.4 ml
c. 190.9 ml
d. 194.5 ml
Ans. A
62. Calculate the theoretical density of copper given that the
unit cell is face centered cubic and the lattice parameter is
361Å. the atomic weight of copper is 63.5 g/mole.
a. 4.49 g / cm3
b. 7.86 g / cm3
c. 8.78 g / cm3
d. 8.97 g / cm3
Ans. D
63. Determine the planar density of copper atoms in the (100)
plane given that the unit cell is face-centered cubic and the
lattice parameter is 3.16 Å.
a. 7.68 x 1018 atoms/m2
b. 1.53 x 1018 atoms/m2
c. 2.30 x 1018 atoms/m2
d. 3.84 x 1018 atoms/m2
Ans. B
64. a sample face-centered cubic nickel (Ni) was placed in an X-
ray beam of wavelength λ= 0.154 nm. If the lattice parameter for
Ni is ao= 0.352 nm, what is the first order angle of diffraction?
a. 5.68o
b. 6.97o
c. 12.6o
d. 19.0o
Ans. C
65. Centrifugal pump at best efficiency point (BEP). Assume the
pump characteristic arehead, h = 7 m, flow rate Q = 10
liters/sec, and rotative speed n = 1170 rpm. Find the specific
speed in SI units.
a. 0.4
b. 0.71
c. 10.41
d. 3.94
Ans. B
66. What type of turbine delivers 25,000 bhp at 500 rpm under a
net head of 5250 ft.
a. Impulse turbine
b. Francis turbine
c. Kaplan turbine
d. Propeller
Ans. A
67. What is the power ratio of a pump and its 1/5 scale model if
the ratio of heads is 4 to 1?
a. 20
b. 200
c. 12.5
d. 125
Ans. B
68. Find the thrust and efficiency of two 2-m diameter
propellers through which flows a total of 600 m3/s of air 11.3
N/m3. The propellers are attached to an airplane moving at 250
kph through still air. Neglect eddy losses.
a. 36,077 N, 73%
b. 77,630 N, 37%
c. 66,033 N, 33%
d. 77330 N, 77%
Ans. A
69. The fuel oil has the ff. analysis:
C = 89% H2 = 8% N2 = 2% S = 1%
With 3% excess air, what is the actual amount of air needed to
burn the fuel oil?
a. 13.17 kgair/kgfuel
b. 13.47 kgair/kgfuel
c. 14.47 kgair/kgfuel
d. 14.17 kgair/kgfuel
Ans. D
70. Products of combustionwith k of 1.35, 556 K, molecular
weight M = 29, are moving within an exhaust pipe at 174 m/s;
1.12 kg/cm2 abs. static pressure. Find the total pressure and
temperature.
a. 1.61 kg/cm2, 580 K
b. 1.61 kg/cm2, 570 K
c. 1.13 kg/cm2, 570 K
d. 1.13 kg/cm2, 580
Ans. C
71. A drum containing steam with 2.5 m in diameter is 7.5 m
long. Of the total volume, 1/3 contains saturated steam at 800
kpa and the other 2/3 contains saturated water. If this tank
should explode, how much water would evaporate? Consider the
process to be of constant enthalpy.
a. 2,948.11 kg
b. 2,424.62 kg
c. 2,651.24 kg
d. 2,123.76 kg
Ans. A
72. A Batangas base industrial company operates a steam-power
plant with reheat and regeneration. The steam enters a turbine
at 300 bar and 900 K and expands to 1 bar. Steam leaves the
first stage at 30 bar and part of it entering a closed heater
while the rest is reheated to 800 K. Both section of the turbine
have adiabatic efficiency of 93%. A condensate pump exist
between the main condenser and the heater. Another pump lies
between the heater and the condensate outlet line from the
heater (condensed extracted steam). Compute for the extracted
fraction of the total mass flow to the heater.
a. 0.234
b. 0.534
c. 0.765
d. 0.485
Ans. A
73. A coal fired utility has the following characteristics:
Coal Feed Rate - - - - - - 6,940 kg/hr
Electric power rating - - - 50 MW
Refuse Removal Rate - - - - 410 kg/hr
Carbon in Refuse - - - - - - 30 %
Ultimate Analysis in percent :
C = 76.56 O2 = 7.70 S = 2.44
H2 = 5.50 N2 = 1.70 Si = 6.10
Heating value of coal is 32,773 kJ/kg
If stack gas particle collectors are required to meet the limit
of 0.043 kg particulates per million kg of fuel feed set by
Environmental Management Bureau under the jurisdiction of the
DENR, what efficiency must the collection system have? Molecular
weight of Si = 28.09.
a. 99.999953 %
b. 89.999953 %
c. 79.999953 %
d. 69.999953 %
Ans. A
74. A reverse Carnot cycle air conditioner of 4 TR capacity
operates in cooling coil temperature of 5 deg. C. The
surrounding air at 45 deg. C is used as a cooling medium rising
to the temperature of 55 deg. C. The temperature of heat
rejection is 60 deg. C. Determine the mass flow rate of air
entering the heat exchanger.
A. 0.07 kg/s C. 0.16 kg/s
B. 0.12 kg/s D. 0.04 kg/s
Answer: A
75. A turbine receives 150 lbm/sec of air at 63 psia and 2450oR
and expands it polytropically to 14.7 psia. the exponent n is
equal to 1.45 for the process. Determine the power.
a. 52,343.16 BTU/sec
b. 53,343.16 KW
c. 53,343.16 HP
d. 53,343.16 ft-lb/sec
Ans. A
76. Fuel of calorific value 43.5 MJ/kg is burned in an auxiliary
boiler at the rate of 81 kg/hr. The feed water rate is 0.258
kg/s and its temperature is 48oC. If the efficiency of the boiler
is 68% and the steam produced is dry and saturated, estimate its
pressure.
a. 1.1 Mpa
b. 1.5 Mpa
c. 2.0 MPa
d. 2.1 MPa
Ans. A
77. How long could a 2000 hp motor be operated on the heat
energy liberated by 1 mi.3 of ocean water when the temperature of
water is lowered by 1oC and if all these heat were converted to
mechanical energy?
a. 371.56
b. 243.55
c. 384.76
d. 376.57
Ans. A
78. Given a horizontal conveyor, 46 m centers, 175 pounds per hr
capacity of handling bituminous coal at 0.5 m/s with 800 kg per
m3. Other data as follows:
flight width and depth 610 mm x 200 mm
Quantity of material 0.108 m3/m
Coefficient of friction elements 0.10
Material Coefficient of friction 0.59
Assume an engineering-type chain with sleeve bearing rollers
weighing with flights, 89.3 kg/m. Calculate the chain pull in
kg.
a. 2180.33
b. 4550.10
c. 1555.36
d. 3166.46
Ans. D
79. What is the power in kW required to drives horizontal
conveyor 46 m centers, 175 tons per hr capacity of bituminous
coal at 0.5 m/s with 800 kg/m3 material? Other data are as
follows:
flight width and depth 610 mm x 200 mm
Quantity of material 0.108 m3/m
Coefficient of friction elements 0.10
Material Coefficient of friction 0.59
Assume an engineering-type chain with sleeve bearing rollers
weighing with flights, 89.3 kg/m. Let Fp = 76.042 kg-m/Hp-s.
a. 10.20 kW
b. 20.50 kW
c. 15.53 kW
d. 30.15 kW
Ans. C
80. Atmospheric air 14.7 psia and 60oF at sea level, what is the
pressure at 12000 ft altitude if air is incompressible. @ 60oF :
the density of air is 0.0763 lbm/ft3, P1 = 14.7 psia.
a. 5.42 psia
b. 5.34 psia
c. 6.72 psia
d. 9.32 psia
Ans. A
81. A pipe of internal diameter 6 units carries water with a
depth of 3 units under in influence of gravity. Calculate the
hydraulic radius.
a. 1.12
b. 1.32
c. 2.31
d. 1.01
Ans. A
82. water (density = 1000 kg/m3, E = 2 x 109 Pa) is flowing at 4
m/s through a long length of 4 in schedule 40 pipe (Di = 0.102m,
t = 0.0062 m, E = 2 x 1011 Pa) when a valve suddenly closes
completely. What is the theoretical increase in pressure?
a. ΔP = 2.23 x 106 Pa
b. ΔP = 1.23 x 106 Pa
c. ΔP = 0.23 x 106 Pa
d. ΔP = 5.23 x 106 Pa
Ans. D
83. Centrifugal pump powered by a direct-drive induction motor
is needed to discharge 150gal/min against a 300-ft head and
turning at a fully loaded speed of 3500 rpm. What type of pump
must be selected?
a. Reciprocating pump
b. Radial vane pump
c. Screw pump
d. None of these
Ans. B
84. In a boiler design, it is desirable to have the flue gas
exit temperature above the dewpoint. What is the dewpoint
temperature of the flue gas produced by the combustion having
the gravimetric analysis of:
N2 = 71.84% O2 = 3.61 %
CO2 = 20.35% H2O = 4.20%
Assume that air infiltration and leakage are negligible
a. 45 deg C
b. 40 deg C
c. 39 deg C
d. 24 deg C
ans. C
85.From the Blasius solution for laminar boundary layer flow,
the average coeffiecient of skin friction is Cr= 1.328/√𝑅𝐸. If
air flowing past a 33 ft long plate at a velocity of 100ft/sec,
what is the force on the plate?
a. 0.00114 lbf
b. 0.00344 lbf
c. 0.086 lbf
d. 0.114 lbf
ans. D
86. Superheated steam at pressure of 20 bar and temperature 300
C is expanded isentrpically. At what pressure will the steam be
just dry and saturated?
a. 6 bar
b. 8 bar
c. 10 bar
d. 4 bar
ans. A
87. Water flows steadily with a velocity of 3.05 m/s in a
horizontal pipe having a diameter of 15.24 cm. At one section of
the pipe, the temperature and pressure of the water are 21 C and
689.3 kPa respectively. What is the Friction factor?
a. 0.156
b. 0.0091
c. 0.0185
d. 0.781
ans. C
88. A nuclear power plant is to have a capacity of 500MW-
electrical. How many pounds of U235 are needed to operate the
plant continuously for 6 years if the plant capacity factor is
75% and thermal effy is 35%.
a. 5179.05
b. 5375.01
c. 6426.25
d. 6778.64
ans. A
89. When a U235 nucleus fissions, about 20 Mev of energy are
released. What fraction of the weight of the nucleus is thereby
converted into energy?
a. 2.26 x 103
b. 1.13 x 103
c. 1.51 x 103
d. 2.52 x 103
ans. b
90. A 600 MVe PWR nuclear plant uses 4% enriched Uranium fuel
has a thermal efficiency of 36%. The burn up allowed of the
fissionable portion of the fuel is 20%. Calculate how many
metric tons of natural Uranium is placed in the reactor vessel
for one year continuous operatin?
a. 69.34
b. 79.35
c. 88.56
d. 56.77
ans. B
91. Determine the wavelength of a gamma photon having an enrgy
of 1 Mev.
a. 1.53 x 10-10 cm
b. 2.28 x 10-10 cm
c. 1.24 x 10-10 cm
d. 3.06 x 10-10 cm
ans. c
92. A nuclear powerplant has rated capacity of 200 MW electrical
power. The core contains 50 tons of Uranium enriched to 2
percent U235. Determine the average thermal neutron flux in the
reactor required at rated plant capacity.
a. 1.18 x 1013 neurons / cm2-s
b. 1.48 x 1013 neurons / cm2-s
c. 1.28 x 1013 neurons / cm2-s
d. 1.38 x 1013 neurons / cm2-s
ans. D
93. A proton has kinetic energy of 10 Mev. What is its velocity?
a, 4.34 x 109 m/s
b. 3.44 x 109 m/s
c. 4.34 x 109 cm/s
d. 3.44 x 109 cm/s
ans. C
94. What is the wavelength of the most energetic x-raus from
150,00 volt tube?
a. 8.325 x 10-10 cm
b. 8.325 x 10-9 cm
c. 7.852 x 10-10 cm
d. 7.852 x 10-9 cm
ans. A.
95. If all exact isotropic mass of He4 is 4.00187 amu, calculate
the total binding energy and the building energy per nucleon.
a. 30.14 Mev, 8.53 Mev / nucloen
b. 30.14 Mev, 7.53 Mev / nucloen
c. 35.14 Mev, 7.53 Mev / nucloen
d. 35.14 Mev, 8.53 Mev / nucloen
ans. C

96. During heavy rain, a 3m x 4.6m room is flooded to a depth of

15cm. To remove the water ( µ = 1.0 x10-3 Pa.s). a pump is used
that does the job in two hours. The water flows through a
horizontal pipe of radius 0.64 cm and length of 6.7m. Compute
the gage pressure does the pump produce?
a. 2.923 Kpa
b. 2.785 Kpa
c. 1.176 Kpa
d. 1.254 Kpa
ans. a