Here is the BHEL – bharat heavy electricals limited placement paper for feb 2007.

Hello friends,
It was the BHEL engineer trainee exam / test for b.tech engineering branches Computer science cse, electronics ece, eee electrical and mechanical stream.

The total questions in the written test were 240.

Here are the written test technical questions for mechanical engineering students / candidates. 

120- Technical questions in Mechanical Engineering
120- General Apptitude questions. (Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning and English language)

Important / Main mechanical technical topics: The questions were from
Thermodynamics
Engineering Mechanics
Theory of machines
Production technology

Negative marking is 1/5th

There are five choices for the multiple choice / objective questions:

Technical mechanical engineering subjects written test questions:

1)Unit of Entropy (J/kg K or kJ/kg K)

2)A mass of 100kg is falling from a height of 1 m and penetrates the sand into for 1 m. What is the resistance force given by sand.

3)Ratio of specific heats of air. (1.41)

4)A body weighs 3 kg in air. If it is submerged in a liquid, it weighs 2.5 kg. What is the specific gravity of the liquid.

5)Two cars travell in same direction at 40 km/hr at a regular distance. A car comes in a opposite direction in 60km/hr. It meets each car in a gap of 8 seconds. What is the distance between them?

6)A simple problem involing in hoops stress. For sphere: M= [3/2]*p*V*[density of pressure vessel material/Maximum working stress it can tolerate] For Thin walled pressure walls: Hoops stress or stress in the radial direction =p*r/2t

7)A problem in force calculation in a body moving in a inclined surface.

8)Composition of bronze. (Copper+zinc)

9)Compostion of stainless steel.(iron+chromium+nickel+carbon)

10)CI is manifactured in which process. (cupola process)

11)What percentage of carbon is preset in pig iron. (4.5 to 6%)

12)Water is available at 10m height. What is the pressure available? (pressure=density*g*height; p=1000*9.81*10; p=98100N/m2)

13)What will happen if the speed of the centrifugal pump doubles.

14)The unit eV is widely used in ? (Nuclear and atomic physics)

15)What will happen to the resistance, when the diameter of the conductor is doubled?

16)The power comsumed by a electrical device is 1000W at 250V, What is the resistance in the device?
(Power= Voltage*current; Current=Power/Voltage, Current,I=1000/250=4
amps. V=IR, Therefore R=250/4=62.5 ohms)

17)Why DC current is not used in transformer.

18)On what principle the sonar/ radar( I dont remember) works?

19)Bending moment diagram for the UDL is in what shape?

20)Function of the distributor in petrol vehicles? (Spark timing)

21)Which is not present in CI engines? (carburrettor)

22)What will happen if one cylinder recieves more amount of fuel spray from injectors than other injectors?

23)Purpose of draft tube in hydraulic turbines? (The purpose of a draft tube is toconvert some of the kinetic energy of the flow from the runner (the rotating part of the turbine) intopressure energy and thereby increase the efficiency ofthe hydro power turbine. )

24)What is the effect or reheater in the gas turbine? (The advantage of reheater is significantly increased thrust; the disadvantage is it has very high fuel consumption and inefficiency)

25)Problems in involving with fricition coefficient.

26)Factor of safety = Yeild stress/Working stress.

27)Which is the example of non parallel  power transmission (Universal coupling)

28)For perpendicular shafts worm gear is used.

29)A planet gear with 25 teeth is meshed with a sun gear of 100 teeth.

Both are connected using a arm. How many rotations are needed for planet gear to complete one rotation around the sun gear?

30)What is equivalent spring constant for spring in parallel?

31) Some questions was asked related to boundry layer and vortex flow.

32) 5 questions were asked in PERT, Process planning, Product planning, Break even analysis.

33)How are tungsten and sintered composite materials are machined?

(Electro Discharge Machining, EDM)

General Aptitude Section:

bhel Aptitude questions are easy. English section questions can be found in RS Agg book. But you have to manage time well.

There are 150 minutes for the paper, time is a bit short.

English Section Types of Questions:
Detect the words with wrong spellings (5)
Fill in the blanks  (5)
 2 Reading Comprehensions (10 questions from them)
Find the error (8)

Reasoning Questions Topics / types:
 Seating arrangement problems
 Finding relation between ()
Quantitative ability questions were also easy and repeated ones. Many of the questions are mathematics – geometry related. So prepare geometry well.