Mechanical Engineering Basic of Mechanical Engineering patelam published on December 04, 2010 Stacked 1/20 For the purpose of comparison, the steam generating capacity of a boiler isgenerally expressed in terms of equivalent evaporation kg/hr steam pressure thermal efficiency 2/20 The pump with a low initial cost and low maintenance cost is gear pump bucket pump double acting piston pump centrifugal pump 3/20 A governer in an Ic engine controls the mean speed variation cyclic speed variation load fluctuations exhaust gas temperature 4/20 In vapour absorption refrigeration machine fluids used are freon and lithium bromide water and ammonia brine and sulphur dioxide air and water 5/20 Air refrigeration cycle works on the Brayton cycle Bell Coleman cycle Carnot cycle Sterling cycle 6/20 In a flange coupling, the flange bolts are designed for fatigue shear forces compression tensile forces 7/20 Cast iron contains one of the following % of carbon 0.3 to 0.6 % 0.05 to 0.3 % 0.6 to 1.3 % 2 to 4 % 8/20 Rack and pinion arrangement is used for linear motion of rotary motion rotary motion to rotary motion linear to linear motion rotary to linear motion 9/20 Two stroke IC engines are commonly used in 2 wheelers because the power to weight ratio is high thermal efficiency is high lube oil consumption is less cnoise is less 10/20 High carbon steel has a carbon content of 1 to 3 % 0.5 to 1 % 0.8 to 2 % 2 to 4 % 11/20 When water at atmospheric pressure is heated from 40 deg to 80 deg, the heatabsorbed is sensible heat latent heat super heat specific heat 12/20 For transmitting power without slip one of the following drives is used belt drives rope drives cone pulleys chain drives 13/20 For chain drives the small sprockets should have a minimum number of teeth of 17 25 27 31 14/20 First law of the thermodynamics deals with conversation of mass heat momentum energy 15/20 A belt can transmit maximum power when the total tension of the drive is equal to the centrifugal tension twice the centrifugal tension three times the centrifugal tension four times the centrifugal tension 16/20 The number of valves in a two stroke engine is 0 1 2 4 17/20 In a petrol engine the theoretical ratio of air to fuel is approximately 3:1 5:1 15:1 30:1 18/20 The centrifugal tension in belts increase power transmission decrease power transmission doubles the power transmission does not affect the power transmission in any way 19/20 A process in which no heat is supplied or rejected and entropy is constant is knownas adiabatic process isentroic process polytropic process isothermal process 20/20 Newton is a unit of Mass Momentum Force Energy