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IPE Pre-Test-2nd Sem 23-24 240130 201153

The document is an IPE pre-test from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Adamson University. It contains 20 multiple choice questions about mechanical engineering concepts related to fans, compressors, pumps, cooling towers, and dryers. Students are directed to analyze each question, select the correct answer by solving problems, and show work on separate sheets of paper.

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IPE Pre-Test-2nd Sem 23-24 240130 201153

The document is an IPE pre-test from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Adamson University. It contains 20 multiple choice questions about mechanical engineering concepts related to fans, compressors, pumps, cooling towers, and dryers. Students are directed to analyze each question, select the correct answer by solving problems, and show work on separate sheets of paper.

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ADAMSON UNIVERSITY

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

IPE Pre-test

Name: ____________________________________ Date: ______________

Prof.: _____________________________________ Section: ______________

Direction: Analyze and answer each question by solving problem and shading the circle
corresponding to the correct answer. Provide a solution on a separate sheet of paper. If you believe
that the answer is not in the options, write it adjacent to the item number.

1.0 A fan is to deliver 900 m3/hr of air with a static pressure of 5 cm water gage. What is the static air
power in Watts?

O 122.6 O 102.6 O 0.1026 O 0.1226

2.0 An induced draft fan is used to extract 270,000 m3 of flue gas per hour from a boiler furnace. The
fan is to deliver with total pressure of 250 mm H2O. What is the size of the electric motor in kW if
mechanical efficiency of fan is 55%?

O 447 O 186 O 334 O 249

3.0 An industrial fan operating a 1 atm and 21.1°C required a brake power input of 10 kW at a head of
200 mm H2O. What is the brake power in kW if the fan is operated at 97 kPa and 27°C at the same
speed?

O 0.94 O 9.4 O 94.0 O 940

4.0 A steam generating unit has an overall draft loss of 300 mm H2O. Air enters at 1 atm, 27 °C, and the
average flue gas temperature is found to be 200°C. Molecular weight of the gas is 28.5. What is the
necessary height of the stack in meters if no draft fan is to be installed?

O 679 O 69.7 O 697 O 796

5.0 The actual draft required for a certain furnace is 50 mm of water against a frictional losses n the
stack of 12% of the theoretical draft. Air enters at 20°C and the average flue gas temperature was
observed to be 137°C. Gas constant of air is 0.287 kJ/kg-K at an atmospheric pressure of 101.25
kPaa. Assuming a molecular weight of 30 kg/mol, determine the required height of the stack in
meters.

O 102.6 O 140.4 O 182 O 128


6.0 A cooling tower of a large industrial storage plant cools 12,000 kg/s of water from 35°C to 25°C.
The inlet air to the cooling tower has a temperature of 25°C and 35%RH (Psat = 3.169 kPa, hg =
2547.2 kJ/kg). Air leaves the cooling tower saturated at 35°C (Psat = 5.628 kPa, hg = 2565.3 kJ/kg).
Calculate the flow rate of air required by the cooling tower in kg/s.

O 8562.5 O 5817.5 O 5578.6 O 5645.5

7.0 Wet feed containing 70% moisture leaves a rotary dryer with a bone dry mass of 90%. What is the
weight of the moisture removed based on one kilogram of original product?

O 0.33 O 1.0 O 0.67 O 1.33

8.0 A double-acting compressor delivers 7.2 m3/min of air at a speed of 180 rpm and discharge
pressure of 550 kPaa from a suction condition of 100 kPaa and 29°C. Piston rod diameter is 10 cm
while piston speed is 2.0 m/s. Stroke to bore ratio is 1.1. Compression and re-expansion curves are
in accordance with PV1.35 = C. Determine the cylinder dimension.

O 240mm x 264mm O 303mm x 333mm O 355mm x 390.5mm O 455mm x 500 mm

9.0 Calculate the volume displacement in m3/min of the compressor in no.8

O 6.45 O 5.62 O 7.3 O 8.2

10.0 What is the approximate clearance of the compressor in no. 8?

O 6% O 5.38% O 4.86% O 6.15%

11.0 What is the power, in kW, required to operate the compressor in no. 8

O 6.45 kW O 25.72 kW O 9.03 kW O 18.2 kW

12.0 A centrifugal pump designed for 1750 rpm and head of 30 m has a capacity of 75 m3/hr of
water. What is the water power of this pump?

O 6.13 HP O 6.13 kW O 367.76 kW O 36.78 kW

13.0 If the speed of the pump in no. 12 is reduced to 1300 rpm, what will be the new head due to the
speed reduction?

O 40.38 m O 22.29 m O 54.36 m O 16.56 m

14.0 Referring to the pump in no. 12, if the original impeller is replaced and another impeller, 30%
larger in diameter is used, how much power will the pump now require?

O 13.47 kW O 8 kW O 10.36 kW O 9.67 kW

15.0 A continuous dryer with a capacity of 10 metric ton per hour is used for drying wet material
containing 15% moisture dry basis. The temperature of the product before and after the dryer, are
25°C and 115°C respectively. The specific heat of the material is 0.9 kJ/kg-K. Efficiency of the dryer
is 68%. Steam enters and leaves the heater saturated vapour and saturated liquid respectively at
105°C. The material is to be dried to 0.5% moisture. (Note: @101.325 Kpaa and 115°C, h = 2686.4
kJ/kg, @ 25°C hf = 104.89 kJ/kg, @ 105°C hfg = 2243.7 kJ/kg). What is the mass of moisture
removed from the material in kg/hr?

O 2,163 O 1,442 O 17,163 O 11,442

16.0 What is the bone dry mass of the material in no. 15?

O 9,950 O 14,925 O 8,696 O 13,044

17.0 What is the amount of heat absorbed by the dry material in no. 15?

O 224 kW O 342 kW O 423 kW O 422 kW

18.0 In the dryer system in no. 15, how much heat has been absorbed by the moisture in the material,
both those that evaporated and unevaporated?

O 5.234 O 1035.326 O 1041 O 1030

19.0 A single stage, single acting compressor has a capacity of 200 m3/hr at a speed of 1000 rpm.
Air is taken from the atmosphere at 100 kPaa and 25°C then discharged at 1100 kPaa. The
compression follows the equation PV1.35 = C. Clearance is 6%. What is the volumetric
efficiency of this compressor?

O 65.35% O 70.56% O 56.7% O 80.36%

20.0. What is the diameter of the cylinder if stroke to bore ratio (S/B) is 1.2?

O 200 mm O 304 mm O 256.7 mm O 171 mm

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