Power Plant Engineering Practice Test 6

1. The thermal efficiency of diesel engines is about __________

2. The specific fuel consumption per B.P. hour for a petrol engine is about __________

3. In a four stroke cycle petrol engine, the pressure inside the engine cylinder during the suction stroke is __________ the atmospheric pressure.

4. What is the purpose of testing an internal combustion engine?

5. A fuel of cetane number 40 has the same ignition quality as a mixture of __________

6. Reflector in nuclear power plants __________ neutron leakage.

7. A hydraulic coupling belongs to the category of __________

8. The brake power of a diesel engine, keeping other parameters constant, can be increased by __________

9. Pre-ignition is caused by the spontaneous combustion of the mixture before the end of the compression stroke, and is due to __________

10. A moderator, in nuclear power plants, is a medium introduced into the fuel mass in order to __________