Codes and Regulations
The main or primary document which must be passed through the jurisdictional parliament is a/an:
a. Proclamation
b. Act
c. Edict
d. Bill
e. Regulation
What is an Act?
The three major components of an ecosystem are:
a. Animals, plants and decomposers
b. Producers, consumers and inactive organic matter
c. Producers, consumers and air
d. Producers, consumers and sun’s energy
What is Producers, consumers and inactive organic matter?
When using radiographic inspection, defects such as cracks and porosity show up as:
a. Lighter shadows on the photographic paper
b. Wave signals on a small screen
c. Darker shadows on the penetrameter
d. Darker shadows on the photographic paper
What is Darker shadows on the photographic paper?
The output voltage of a particular DC generator rises sharply from minimum load to full load. This generator is a ___________ generator.
a. Shunt
b. Compound
c. Synchronous
d. Series
What is Series?
Proper draft is important to the plant operator because it:
a. Produces efficient combustion
b. Keeps the furnace from overheating
c. Reduces the quantity of ash produced
d. Prevents flue gas from leaking out of the boiler
What is produces efficient combustion?
This regulation lists the requirements which must be met for anyone wishing to write an applicable jurisdictional examination.
a. Power Engineers Regulation
b. Pressure Equipment Exemption Order
c. Pressure Welders Regulation
d. Pressure Equipment Safety Regulation
What is Power Engineers Regulation?
In what form is the oxygen which supports marine life?
a. dissolved
b. aqueous
c. solid
d. mineral
What is dissolved?
In an Ultrasonic Test, the ultrasonic vibrations are converted to an electrical pulse in/by:
a. a transducer
b. an oscilloscope
c. a duplex converter
d. a transmitter
What is transducer?
The commutator of a DC machine is usually made of copper bars separated by:
a. Mica
b. Steel plates
c. Fibreglass
d. Carbon
What is Mica?
A diaphragm type pressure gauge:
a. Is used to measure high pressures
b. Operates on a mercury column
c. Cannot be used for pressures greater than atmospheric
d. Is used to measure very small pressures
What is used to measure very small pressures?
This group meets at least once a year on situations which they feel are important and relevant to Power Engineers and the fulfillment of their duties and responsibilities.
a. ACI
b. SOPEEC
c. ASME
d. ANSI
e. IPECC
What is ACI ?
The earth's water cycle is referred to as the:
a. hydrostatic cycle
b. meteorological cycle
c. hydrographic cycle
d. hydrological cycle
What is hydrological cycle?
Gas pockets trapped within a weld are commonly called:
a. Flux
b. Porosity
c. Spatter
d. Slugging
What is Porosity?
A rheostat is also known as
a. a voltage regulator
b. an automatic resistor
c. a variable resistor
d. an exciter
What is a variable resistor?
Natural draft is produced in a boiler furnace when:
a. Hot flue gases contract so that each cubic meter has more mass
b. Gases in the stack have less mass than an equal column of outside air
c. Gases in the stack have more mass than an equal column of outside air
d. Hot flue gases condense
What is gases in the stack have less mass than an equal column of outside air?
One of the national legislative items which each jurisdiction in Canada has adopted as part of their applicable Act and/or Regulations is the:
a. NFPA Codes
b. ANSI Codes
c. ASME Codes
d. NAFTA Codes
e. CSA B52
What is CSA B52?
What term is connected to the movement of material and substances through the environment?
a. biogeochemical
b. hydrogeological
c. regeneration
d. homeostasis
What is biogeochemical?
If a welding electrode has the following identifying number “E7015”, what does the “70” represent?
a. 70 kPa
b. 70 000 kPa
c. 70 psi
d. 70 000 psi
What is 70 000 psi?
The connection provided on DC motors to supply the armature with power, via brushes,:
a. Are slip rings
b. Are field poles
c. Is a commutator
d. Is hard-wired
What is a commutator?
Boiler combustion is regulated by:
a. Varying the speed of an ID fan
b. Controlling or regulating the fuel flow
c. Varying the speed of an FD fan
d. Controlling the air and fuel flow
What is controlling the air and fuel flow?
The "Pressure Vessels" section of the B-51 code identifies pressure vessels and their installation, including pressure vessel inspection openings. This section also shows the design of cushion tanks, blow-off vessels, and the installation of:
a. Hydropneumatic tanks
b. Dearators.
c. Blowdown tanks.
d. Boiler drums.
What is Hydropneumatic tanks?
Electrostatic precipitators use __________ to remove the dust from the collecting electrodes.
a. Rappers
b. Reversed current
c. Air jets
d. Water spray
What is Rappers?
Electric arc temperatures may be as high as:
a. 4250°C
b. 5325°C
c. 7450°C
d. 8300°C
What is 8300°C?
The main components of a DC machine are the non-moving assembly, called the _____, and the rotor, which is also called an armature.
a. Wiring
b. Stator
c. Rheostat
d. Generator
What is a Stator?
The result of a condensate receiver that is too small could be:
a. High boiler water level
b. Overflowing of the condensate receiver
c. Loss of make-up water
d. Low make-up water flow rates
What is overflowing of the condensate receiver?