Fuels and Combustion MCQs

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Practice Fuels and Combustion MCQs with correct answers and explanations. These questions are from the Chemical Engineering MCQs section.

Caking index of a coal is a measure of its _______________________?
A. Abradability
B. Reactivity
C. Agglutinating (binding) properties
D. Porosity
The shift conversion reaction taking place during water gas manufacture is given by__________________?
A. C + h2o ↔ co + h2
B. C + 2h2o ↔ co2 + 2h2
C. Co + h2o ↔ co2 + h2
D. None of these
_____________ of the coal is the basis for Seylor’s coal classification?
A. Proximate analysis
B. Ultimate analysis
C. Caking index
D. Calorific value
In case of pulverised coal fired steam boiler, the secondary air serves the main purpose of__________________?
A. Transportation of coal
B. Drying of coal
C. Combustion of coal by supplying it around the burner
D. Preheating the primary air
In flue gas analysis by Orsat’s apparatus, carbon monoxide is absorbed by__________________?
A. Cuprous chloride
B. Potassium hydroxide
C. Alkaline pyrogallol solution
D. None of these
Washing of coal decreases its_________________?
A. Caking index
B. Mineral matter content
C. Ash content
D. Both b. and c.
To avoid fire by spontaneous combustion of coal due to its low temperature oxidation, it should be stored in___________________?
A. Shallow and small piles
B. Fine sizes without the presence of any lump
C. Closed space without any ventilation facility
D. Large heaps with small surface to volume ratio
Nitrogen in coal_________________?
A. Is present upto 1-2%
B. Comes from protein in parent vegetable matter
C. Is recovered as ammonia during its carbonisation
D. All a., b. and c.