Thermodynamics MCQ

When was the Brayton cycle first proposed?

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Correct Answer: Around 1870

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What do the expansion and compression processes take place in?

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Correct Answer: Rotating machinery

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What is a term used to describe a type of pressure measurement device?

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Correct Answer: Bourdon tube

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What is the name of the French inventor who created the Bourdon tube?

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Correct Answer: Eugene Bourdon

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What is the work associated with the expansion or compression of a gas in a piston-cylinder device?

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Correct Answer: Boundary work

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What is the true meaning of the word "boundary"?

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Correct Answer: Surface that separates the system from its surroundings

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What is the term used to describe the real or imaginary surface that separates a system from its surroundings?

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Correct Answer: Boundary

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What type of cycle receives heat from another?

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Correct Answer: Bottoming cycle

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What is the largest volume the piston forms in the cylinder?

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Correct Answer: Dead center

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What is the position of the piston when it forms the largest volume in the cylinder?

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Correct Answer: Bottom dead center

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The bore of a piston is what?

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Correct Answer: The diameter of a piston

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What is the diameter of a piston?

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Correct Answer: Bore

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What is a boiler basically?

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Correct Answer: A large heat exchanger

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What are the large heat exchangers called that transfer heat from a source to water?

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Correct Answer: Boiler

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What can the condenser of a binary cycle serve as?

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Correct Answer: Boiler

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What is an example of a vapour cycle?

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Correct Answer: Binary vapour cycle

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Bernoulli's equation is a form of what principle?

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Correct Answer: Conservation of momentum

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What does Bernoulli's equation tell us about the conservation of momentum principle?

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Correct Answer: For steady-flow control volumes

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What is a control volume type known by Bernoulli's equation?

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Correct Answer: Steady-flow

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What is the name of the more recent and very accurate equation of state?

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Correct Answer: Benedict-Webb-Rubin

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What is one of the more recent and very accurate equations of state?

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Correct Answer: Benedict-Webb-Rubin equation of state

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What is one of the best known?

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Correct Answer: Beattie-Bridgeman equation of state

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What does the barometer measure?

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Correct Answer: Atmospheric pressure

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What is the name of the device that measures atmospheric pressure?

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Correct Answer: Barometer

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How many Bar is one millibar?

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Correct Answer: 105

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What is the unit of pressure equal to 105 Pascal?

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Correct Answer: Bar

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What is the unit of work in the back ratio of a gas turbine?

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Correct Answer: Compressor

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What is the ratio of the compressor work to the turbine work in gas-turbine power plants?

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Correct Answer: Back work ratio

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What does the term back pressure mean?

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Correct Answer: The pressure applied at the nozzle discharge region

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What is the pressure applied at the nozzle discharge region?

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Correct Answer: Back pressure

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What is the universal gas constant divided by in the case of the molar mass of a mixture?

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Correct Answer: The apparent molar mass

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What is the universal gas constant divided by in the above equation?

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Correct Answer: The apparent molar mass of the mixture

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Engine knock is an indication of what?

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Correct Answer: Premature ignition

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Engine knock is accompanied by what?

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Correct Answer: An audible noise

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Engine knock is the premature ignition of the fuel which produces an what?

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Correct Answer: Audible noise

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What is contained in atmospheric air?

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Correct Answer: Water vapour

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What type of air is present in the atmosphere?

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Correct Answer: Atmospheric air

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What can you do to express the molar mass of a mixture?

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Correct Answer: Sum of the products

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What accounts for the combustion efficiency as well as other losses such as heat losses to unheated areas and start-up and cool-down losses in buildings?

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Correct Answer: Annual fuel utilization efficiency

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What is the law that states that the volume of a gas mixture is equal to the sum of the volumes each gas would occupy if it existed alone at the mixture temperature and pressure?

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Correct Answer: Amagat's law

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What type of cycle is an air-standard cycle?

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Correct Answer: Cycle for which the air-standard assumptions are applicable

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What is another name for the cycle that applies air-standard assumptions?

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Correct Answer: Air-standard cycle

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What assumption does reduce the analysis of gas power cycles to a manageable level?

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Correct Answer: Air-standard assumptions

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What do air-source heat pumps use as the heat source?

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Correct Answer: Cold outside air

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What type of heat pump uses cold air as the heat source?

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Correct Answer: Air-source heat pumps

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What is the definition of air-fuel ratio?

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Correct Answer: The ratio of the mass of air to the mass of fuel

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What is defined as the ratio of the mass of air to the mass of fuel for a combustion process?

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Correct Answer: Air-fuel ratio

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What is the purpose of an air conditioner?

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Correct Answer: Refrigerated space

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What are generally called in the U.S.?

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Correct Answer: Air conditioners

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What can an aircraft turbine engine do with its extra thrust?

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Correct Answer: Short takeoffs

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What is the name of the extra fuel added to the exhaust gases of the engine to provide extra thrust?

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Correct Answer: Afterburner

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What is the exit temperature that air attains in the adiabatic saturation process?

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Correct Answer: Adiabatic saturation temperature

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What will happen to the temperature of the air as it dries?

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Correct Answer: Decrease

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What part of the air will increase during this process?

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Correct Answer: Moisture content

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What is the process in which a steady stream of unsaturated air is passed through a long insulated channel?

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Correct Answer: Adiabatic saturation process

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What is a process during which there is no heat transfer?

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Correct Answer: Adiabatic process

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When is the theoretical maximum value of the adiabatic flame temperature attained?

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Correct Answer: Complete combustion

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What is absorbed in absorption refrigeration systems?

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Correct Answer: Refrigerant

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What are the most widely used absorption refrigeration system?

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Correct Answer: Ammonia-water system

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What is absolute zero pressure?

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Correct Answer: Absolute vacuum

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What is the actual pressure at a given position?

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Correct Answer: Absolute pressure

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What is the ratio of the mass of water vapor to the mass of dry air?

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Correct Answer: Absolute or specific humidity

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What is the calculation of entropy done relative to?

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Correct Answer: The absolute reference point

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What is the calculated relative to the absolute reference point determined by the third law of thermodynamics?

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Correct Answer: Absolute entropy

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