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What is full of holes but still holds water?
What is a sponge
important for keeping the water level in a boiler at the right level
what is a Steam boiler float
programming language use to program a PLC
What is ladder logic
What does ASME stand for
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
a device used to discharge condensates and non-condensable gases with a negligible consumption or loss of live steam.
Steam trap
___________ expansion causes materials to grow slightly in size and has the greatest effect on a piping system.
What is thermal expansion
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and rode out on Friday. How is this possible?
horse is named Friday
_______ heat transfer is the movement of heat through a solid.
Conduction, Radiation, or convection
What is conduction
I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Battery
How to reverse rotation on a 3 phase motor?
Swap any two motor leads
What are the four temperature scales that are used
Kelvin, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Rankin
is water intentionally wasted from a boiler to avoid concentration of impurities during continuing evaporation of steam.
Boiler blowdown
is a system (component) used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid
What is a heat exchanger?
device designed to protect a pressurized vessel or system during an overpressure event.
Safety relief Valve
The term “NOWL” is an acronym which stands for
Normal Operating Water
Level
A change in pressure at any point in an enclosed incompressible fluid at rest is transmitted equally. sometimes know as a law.
What is Pascals law?
What does the abbreviation OS&Y stand for?
Outside, Screw & Yoke
Pronounced as 1 letter, And written with 3, 2 letters there are, and 2 only in me. I’m double, I’m single, I’m black blue, and gray, I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. What am I?
What is an eye
Valve maintains the required pressure in the system
Pressure regulating valve
Man who is credited for the discovery of electricity.
Benjamin franklin
How tall was the tallest human on record. (Correct answer must be within 6 inches)
Robert Wadlow was 8Ft 11inches known as the tallest human on record beating the previous record of 8ft 9inches.
equalizes the pressure of the steam between the boilers for distribution through the pipes
to components.
Boiler Header
__________ invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology. known as the master of Electricity.
Nikola Tesla
Prevents the formation of a Vacuum by automatically opening and allowing air back into the system
hat is a Vacuum breaker
I was the airline pilot that successfully landed his stricken plane in the Hudson River in 2009?
who is Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger