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Introduction to Power Engineering
Introduction to Power Engineering
Power engineers are
a) safety code officers in a power plant automatically.
b) qualified to perform any welding jobs in a power plant.
c) skilled workers who operate and maintain the equipment in a power plant.
d) qualified to perform any electrical jobs in a power plant.
e) qualified to make design changes in a power plant.
c) skilled workers who operate and maintain the equipment in a power plant.
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Which of the following duties is a holder of a Fourth Class Engineer's
Certificate of Competency not qualified to perform?
a) Take charge of a shift in a power plant having a capacity of more than
10,000 kW, as shift engineer.
b) Take charge of the general care and operation of a power
plant consisting of one or more coil type drumless boilers having an
aggregate capacity not over 5,000 kW, when only in use for the purpose of
subterranean thermal flooding in oil fields, as chief engineer.
c) Take charge of the general care and operation of a power plant having a
capacity of not more than 1,000 kW as chief steam engineer, and to
supervise the engineers in that plant.
d) Take charge of a shift in a power plant consisting of one or more coil type
drumless boilers having an aggregate capacity of not more than 10,000 kW,
when used only for underground thermal flooding in oil fields, as shift
engineer.
e) Take charge of a
a) Take charge of a shift in a power plant having a capacity of more than
10,000 kW, as shift engineer.
Which of the following is required in order to progress
to a higher certificate?
a) Experience only
b) Education only
c) Hold the next lower level certificate only
d) Both education and the next lower level certificate
e) Education, experience, and the next lower
level certificate.
e) Education, experience, and the next lower level
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The IAO is an organisation who's primary concern is:
a) lowering of maintenance costs through standardisation
b) lowering of production costs through increased automation
c) increase in safety awareness through public education
d) lowering of insurance costs through standardisation
e) increase in equipment quality through tougher
government regulation
d) lowering of insurance costs through standardisation
In the early days, the following two agencies got
involved in the certification of both power plant
operators and equipment due to the many accidents
that were caused by employing
unqualified operators and improper use of equipment in
power plants:
a) owners and governments
b) insurance underwriters and governments
c) educational institutions and owners
d) governments and educational institutions
e) owners and insurance underwriters
b) insurance underwriters and governments
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Unqualified individuals operating a power plant or
pressure plant risk the of the plant and the
general
public.
a) health
b) comfort
c) resources
d) safety
e) economy
d) safety
In Alberta, the Safety Codes Act established the following
classes of Power Engineer's certificates (Other
provinces and territories have also established the
same structure for
these certifications.)
a) A, B, C, and D
b) 1, 2, 3, and 4
c) First, Second, Third, and Fourth
d) Operators A, B, C, and D
e) Boiler maker first, second, third, and fourth year
c) First, Second, Third, and Fourth
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