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This document contains a complete set of practice questions and correct answers for the ABSA 3B2 Power Engineering certification. Key areas include mechanical drives, pumps and compressors, lubrication systems, heat exchangers, cooling towers, and rotating machinery maintenance. A reliable study aid for candidates aiming to master technical concepts at the Third Class leve

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ABSA 3B2 - Review |874 Questions with accurate
answers
_____ is well known for its contribution to the greenhouse effect.
Select one:
a.Ammonia
b.SOX
c.NOX
d.CO2 Ans✓✓✓ d.CO2


_____ turbines are large turbines that consist of two or more turbines in
series. The turbines are coupled together as one shaft and applied to one
generator.
Select one:
a.Topping
b.Tandem-compound
c.Condensing-bleeder
d.Cross-compound
e.Mixed pressure Ans✓✓✓ b.Tandem-compound


__________ on centrifugal air compressors are provided in order to
control the amount of air flowing to the impeller and thus control the
capacity of the unit.
Select one:
a.Adjustable inlet vanes

,b.Adjustable diffuser vanes
c.A variable frequency drive
d.Moving and fixed blades
e.A dummy piston Ans✓✓✓ a.Adjustable inlet vanes


199. In an impulse steam turbine nozzle, the following events take place:
1) The steam pressure decreases
2) The enthalpy of the steam decreases
3) The velocity of the steam increases
4) The volume of the steam increases
a. 1, 2, 4
b. 1, 3, 4
c. 2, 3, 4
d. 1, 2, 3, 4
e. 1, 2, 3 Ans✓✓✓ d. 1, 2, 3, 4


2. In an impulse turbine as the steam passes through the moving blades
the ________ drops but the ______ remains the same:
a. velocity, pressure
b. enthalpy, velocity
c. pressure, velocity
d. volume, velocity
e. velocity, kinetic energy Ans✓✓✓ a. velocity, pressure

,200. Turbine nozzles convert heat energy into:
a. Potential energy
b. Enthalpy
c. Eddy-currents
d. Kinetic energy
e. Pressure Ans✓✓✓ d. Kinetic energy


201. The purpose of the bucket or moving blade on the rotor is to
convert the ____________ energy of the steam into ________ energy:
a. heat, potential
b. kinetic, useful
c. kinetic, mechanical
d. heat, kinetic
e. mechanical, kinetic Ans✓✓✓ c. kinetic, mechanical


203. The pressure at the outlet from the moving blades is the same as the
pressure at the inlet to the moving blades in __________ turbine:
a. a topping
b. a reaction
c. a back-pressure
d. an impulse
e. an extraction Ans✓✓✓ d. an impulse

, 204. Steam turbine stationary nozzles serve to:
1) Decrease steam pressure
2) Increase steam enthalpy
3) Decrease steam friction
4) Increase steam velocity
a. 1, 2, 3
b. 1, 3, 4
c. 1, 4
d. 2, 3
e. 2, 3, 4 Ans✓✓✓ c. 1, 4


205. On an extraction turbine the extraction pressure is:
a. Not critical
b. Varied according to turbine load
c. Maintained constant regardless of turbine load
d. Proportional to the turbine load
e. Reduced if load increases Ans✓✓✓ c. Maintained constant
regardless of turbine load


206. A back-pressure turbine which exhaust steam to an old boiler
header still supplying steam to an old boiler header still supplying steam
to an old lower pressure turbine is called:
a. Condensing-bleeder turbine
b. Cross compound turbine
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