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  1. Moisture should be removed from refrigerants to avoid

  2. A.

     Freezing at the expansion valve

    B.

     Restriction to refrigerant flow

    C.

     Corrosion of steel plates

    D.

     All of these

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  3. Air refrigerator works on

  4. A.

     Reversed Carnot cycle

    B.

     Bell Coleman cycle

    C.

     Both (A) and (B)

    D.

     None of these

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  5. The bypass factor of a cooling coil decreases with

  6. A.

     Decrease in fin spacing and increase in number of rows

    B.

     Increase in fin spacing and increase in number of rows

    C.

     Increase in fin spacing and decrease in number of rows

    D.

     Decrease in fin spacing and decrease in number of rows

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  7. The formation of frost on cooling coils in a refrigerator

  8. A.

     Increases heat transfer

    B.

     Improves C.O.P. of the system

    C.

     Increases power consumption

    D.

     Reduces power consumption

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  9. The boiling point of ammonia is

  10. A.

     -10.5°C

    B.

     -30°C

    C.

     -33.3°C

    D.

     -77.7°C

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  11. Moisture in Freon refrigeration system causes

  12. A.

     Ineffective refrigeration

    B.

     High power consumption

    C.

     Freezing automatic regulating valve

    D.

     Corrosion of whole system

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  13. A refrigerating system operating on reversed Brayton refrigeration cycle is used for maintaining 250 K. If the temperature at the end of constant pressure cooling is 300 K and rise in the temperature of air in the refrigerator is 50 K, then the net work of compression will be (assume air as working substance with Cp = 1 kJ/kg)

  14. A.

     25 kJ/kg

    B.

     50 kJ/kg

    C.

     100 kJ/kg

    D.

     125 kJ/kg

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  15. The relative humidity is defined as

  16. A.

     The mass of water vapour present in 1 m3 of dry air

    B.

     The mass of water vapour present in 1 kg of dry air

    C.

     The ratio of the actual mass of water vapour in a unit mass of dry air to the mass of water vapour in the same mass of dry air when it is saturated at the same temperature and pressure

    D.

     The ratio of actual mass of water vapour in a given volume of moist air to the mass of water vapour in the same volume of saturated air at the same temperature and pressure

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  17. The wet bulb temperature during sensible cooling of air

  18. A.

     Remains constant

    B.

     Increases

    C.

     Decreases

    D.

     None of these

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  19. The dry bulb temperature during sensible heating of air

  20. A.

     Remains constant

    B.

     Increases

    C.

     Decreases

    D.

     None of these

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