Low Pressure Boiler Practice Test Questions and
Answers Rated A
Water, heat and container - -Is necessary combustion rate, which determines that amount
to generate steam in a boiler of fuel burned
Heating surface - -The _____ is the part of Atomization - -The breaking up of fuel into
the boiler with water on one side and heat on the small particles to maximize contact of fuel with air
other for combustion is called
Firetube - -A _____ boiler has heat and Draft system - -The _____ provides the air
gases of combustion that pass through tubes necessary for combustion
surrounded by water
NOWL - -Normal operating water level
Watertube - -A _____ boiler has water in
the tubes and heat and gases of combustion
passing around the tubes MAWP - -Maximum allowable working
pressure
Baffles - -_____ are used in boilers to
direct the gases of combustion over the boiler Cast iron - -A _____ boiler does not use
heating surface tubes
Sensible heat - -Heat that can be Increase heating surface - -To increase
measured with a thermometer is called efficiency of the boiler, _____
Heat exchanger - -A _____ is used to Feedwater, fuel, draft and steam - -The
transfer heat from one substance to another four systems necessary to operate a boiler are
without allowing the materials to mix _____, _____, _____, and _____
Combustion chamber - -In the _____, air Atmospheric pressure - -Is the pressure
mixes with fuel and burns caused by the weight of air surrounding the earth
Perfect combustion - -_____ is combustion 212°F - -Water turns to steam at _____ at
that occurs when fuel is burned using only the atmospheric pressure
theoretical amount of air
Cast iron boiler - -Have sections that can
Primary air - -_____ is air that controls the be assembled on-site to produce the boiler
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Answers Rated A
Water, heat and container - -Is necessary combustion rate, which determines that amount
to generate steam in a boiler of fuel burned
Heating surface - -The _____ is the part of Atomization - -The breaking up of fuel into
the boiler with water on one side and heat on the small particles to maximize contact of fuel with air
other for combustion is called
Firetube - -A _____ boiler has heat and Draft system - -The _____ provides the air
gases of combustion that pass through tubes necessary for combustion
surrounded by water
NOWL - -Normal operating water level
Watertube - -A _____ boiler has water in
the tubes and heat and gases of combustion
passing around the tubes MAWP - -Maximum allowable working
pressure
Baffles - -_____ are used in boilers to
direct the gases of combustion over the boiler Cast iron - -A _____ boiler does not use
heating surface tubes
Sensible heat - -Heat that can be Increase heating surface - -To increase
measured with a thermometer is called efficiency of the boiler, _____
Heat exchanger - -A _____ is used to Feedwater, fuel, draft and steam - -The
transfer heat from one substance to another four systems necessary to operate a boiler are
without allowing the materials to mix _____, _____, _____, and _____
Combustion chamber - -In the _____, air Atmospheric pressure - -Is the pressure
mixes with fuel and burns caused by the weight of air surrounding the earth
Perfect combustion - -_____ is combustion 212°F - -Water turns to steam at _____ at
that occurs when fuel is burned using only the atmospheric pressure
theoretical amount of air
Cast iron boiler - -Have sections that can
Primary air - -_____ is air that controls the be assembled on-site to produce the boiler
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