1. Explain the fundamental difference in fire tube and water tube boilers and the advantages associated with each.
2. Approximately what percentage of US electrical Energy is produced from coal fired plants?
3. Given a map of the U.S. below identify the locations of major coal reserves by type for the locations shown and include a basic description of each type.
4. Explain the laws of Conservation of Mass and Conservation of Energy.
5. Explain the difference between theoretical air and excess air.
6. Choose TEN (10) words from the list below and define the word. Be sure to indicate the words you choose to define by writing the number of the word in the blank below. Use functional definitions, not word for word from the definitions list.
1. Attemperator
2. Balanced Draft
3. Banking
4. Black Liquor
5. British Thermal Unit
6. Carryover
7. Caustic cracking
8. Check valve
9. Condensate
10. Continuous blowdown
11. Corrosion
12. Damper
13. Deaerator
14. Design pressure
15. Differential
16. Downcomer
17. Draft
18. Drum
19. Dry steam
20. Duct
21. Economizer
22. Efficiency
23. Ejector
24. Embrittlement