ORO551-RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

QUESTION BANK

UNIT I - PRINCIPLES OF SOLAR RADIATION

PART-A
1. Discuss the role of renewable source.
2. List various energy resources.
3. Compose the Environmental impact of Solar Power.
4. Define Solar Constant
5. State the principle involved in generating solar power
6. Summarize the factor influencing solar power extraction
7. Infer solar azimuth angle and Zenith angle
8. Summarize the advantage of solar concentrators.
9. Express the Estimation of average Solar Radiation
10. Justify solar isolation.
11. Interpret solar altitude angle.
12. Express the advantages, and limitations of renewable energy sources.
13. Examine briefly the different types of solar energy measuring instruments
14. Distinguish between diffuse radiation and beam radiation
15. Describe about solar geometry
16. What are conventional sources of energy
17. Highlight the importance of solar energy in the present day energy crisis?
18. Indicate the instruments for measuring solar radiation and sun shine
19. Compose the extraterrestrial and terrestrial solar radiation
20. Enumerate on total solar energy received in India

Part-B
1. Write the important differences between renewable and non renewable source.
2. Compose the solar energy option in detail.
3. Examine the Environmental impact of solar power generation.
4. Express solar constant with neat diagram.
5. Explain and derive expression for beam and diffuse radiation.
6. What are the reasons for variation in the amount of solar energy reaching earth surface.
7. Illustrate the necessity to develop non-conventional method of generating Electrical energy.
8. Tabulate the different types of solar energy measuring instruments.
9. Formulate with short note about the suns declination and hour angle.
10. Discuss about the physics of the sun.
11. Demonstrate the working of a pyrheliometer.

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 12. Give a short note about sunshine recorder.
13. Interpret the working of a Pyranometer.
14. Describe extraterrestrial and terrestrial solar radiation.
PART-C

15. Derive expression for beam and diffuse radiation.

16. Compose the instrument used for measuring total radiation.
17. How can solar energy be converted into electrical Energy? Give a diagram showing the elements of such a
plant.
18. Explain the difference in the working of Pyrheliometer and pyranometer.

UNIT II - SOLAR ENERGY COLLECTION

PART-A
1. What are the main components of a flat plate solar collector?
2. List out the various types of flat plate collectors.
3. Describe the classification of solar energy collectors
4. List out the classification of concentrating collectors.
5. Interpret about Flat plate collector?
6. Differentiate flat plate collectors and concentrating collectors.
7. Define Concentrating Collector and classify it.
8. Discuss about non focusing type concentrating collectors
9. Outline about central receiver tower
10. Express Compound Parabolic Concentrator(CPC)
11. Highlight the different types of point focusing type concentrating type collectors
12. Label different types of line focusing type concentrating type collectors
13. Tabulate the applications of solar air heaters
14. Examine the effects of various parameters affecting the performance of a collector
15. Estimate the important factors governing the selection of site for conventional sources
16. Compose the energy balance equation for solar collector.
17. Collector efficiency -Infer
18. Point out the uses of Feed in Inverter
19. Summarize the Concentration Ratio (CR).
20. At what wavelength the radiation emitted from the sun and that reflected from the earth are
centred.
PART-B
1. Describe the classification of solar energy collectors.
2. What is flat plate collector? Explain its operation.

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 3. Examine the working principle of various types of concentrating solar collectors with neat sketch.
4. List the main components of a flat plate solar collector , Explain the function of it.
5. Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of concentrating collectors over a flat plate collector?
6. Explain the principle of operation of Fresnel lens collector.
7. Demonstrate about Compound Parabolic Concentrators.
8. Express the principle of conversion of solar energy in to heat.
9. Discuss the performance analysis of Cylindrical Parabolic Concentrator.
10. Tabulate the different methods of sun tracking.
1. Express the basic phenomenon of solar energy conversion with suitable diagram.
2. Solar radiation geometry at earth surface -Infer.
11. How the solar air collector is classified? What is the main application of each?
12. Discuss about the transmissivity of Cover system.
13. Energy Balance Equation and collector efficiency- Investigate.
PART-C
1. Analyze different types of Solar collectors based on the way they collect solar radiation.
2. The load for a remote home is 2200 Wh/day. A PVsystem with battery storage is considered for
powering this home. If the inverter efficiency is taken as 85%,Coulmb efficiency is taken as 80%
,PV derating is 90%(10% losses due to dirty and temperature) and system voltage 25 V. Calculate
the size of Batteries for maximum five days of storage, if a 12 V
battery with 100Ah is considered .
3. Demonstrate the operation of solar cell with equivalent circuit and its I-V characteristics.
4. Express about the heat transport system used in liquid collector.

UNIT III - SOLAR ENERGY STORAGE AND APPLICATIONS

PART-A
1. Express the different types of solar energy storage systems
2. Define Sensible in solar energy storage
3. Latent Heat -Discuss
4. What is a solar pond?
5. Explain in brief about the applications of solar energy
6. Compose the solar heating/Cooling Techniques.
7. Enumerate about solar water heating
8. Discover in detail solar space cooling
9. Infer about solar distillation
10. Examine the Solar Drying.

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 11. Tabulate different applications of solar PV system in rural India plot?
12. Compose the principle of solar photovoltaic power generation?
13. Examine the equivalent circuit for solar PV panel
14. Discuss about forced circulation solar water heater
15. Passive heating systems-Highlight
16. Summarize about PV effect
17. Solar Space heating-Interpret
18. List out advantages of PV solar energy conversion system
19. Highlight the disadvantages of PV solar energy conversion system
20. Solar thermal system-Identify
PART-B
1. Describe in detail about the different methods of solar storage systems.
2. Discuss latent heat and stratified storage.
3. Express the mechanical solar energy storage systems.
4. What are the applications of solar ponds?
5. Analyze about mechanism of solar heating/cooling technique.
6. Explain in detail solar distillation and drying.
7. With the help of a neat sketch describe a solar heating system using water heating solar collectors.
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this method?
9. With a neat sketch demonstrate the working principle of standalone and grid Connected solar
system.
10. Working of a solar power plant-Investigate.
11. Compare solar PV system with solar thermal system.
12. Tabulate different types of solar energy storage systems.
13. Examine in detail about solar pumping.
14. Demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of PV solar energy conversion system?
15. Examine in detail about the photovoltaic energy conversion.
PART-C
1. Investigate about non convective solar ponds and applications of solar ponds.
2. Summarize the latent heat and stratified storage in solar energy.
3. Compose the Different application of Solar Energy.
4. Analyze about PV effect and state the advantage and disadvantage of PV Solar Energy.

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 UNIT IV - WIND ENERGY
PART-A
1. List two important wind turbine generator installations in India.
2. What is the type of generator used in wind power plant?
3. How the wind mills are classified.
4. Tabulate the disadvantages of wind power?
5. Pitch angle-Define?
6. Explain vertical wind mills with neat sketch.
7. Compose the Constant speed constant frequency WTG unit.
8. Sketch the Variable speed constant frequency WTG system.
9. Mechanism of production of local winds-Interpret
10. List out the constituents of biogas?
11. Illustrate some organic materials used in bio-mass plant.
12. Express the factors affecting biogas generation.
13. Examine about lique faction?
14. Give the classification of biogas plant.
15. Deenbandhu type plant-Summarize.
16. Utilization of biogas plant-Discuss.
17. Illustrate wet processes used for producing biogas.
18. Express dry processes
19. Continuous and batch processes-Discuss
20. Demonstrate about the operation of I.C.Engine
PART-B

1. Write and explain wind power equation.

2. Define Tip speed ratio.
3. What are the advantages of wind power?
4. Explain Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT).
5. With a neat sketch illustrate about Horizontal axis windmills
6. Express the pitch control and Yaw control?
7. Compose the Constant speed constant frequency WTG unit.
8. Principle used in the measurement of speed of the wind- Discuss?
9. Tabulate the main applications of wind energy.
10. Highlight the difference between Bio mass and biogas. Discuss about the pyrolysis.
11. Dry and wet fermentation process-Discuss

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 12. List out the classification of biogas plants.
13. Describe Chinese Type plants.
14. Examine about the floating drum type biogas plants.
15. Illustrate the operation of IC Engine with neat sketch.
16. Summarize about the operation of IC engine with biogas and discuss their performance
characteristics.
17. Sort out various factors affecting bio digestion of a gas?

PART-C
1. How the wind mills are classified and Explain the operation.
(i) Analyze about main applications of wind power?
(ii) Investigate about the type of generator used in windpower plant?
2. Compose the classification of biogas plants.
3. Discuss about the modification of IC engines to use biogas.
UNIT V - GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
PART-A
1. What is geothermal power?
2. List out the classifications of geo thermal fields
3. Describe a vapor dominated or dry steam field
4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of geothermal plant
5. Potential of geothermal energy in India-Infer
6. Explain the working of a vapor-dominated power plant
7. Discuss the types of liquid dominated hydrothermal convective systems
8. Give the applications of geothermal energy
9. Highlight types of energy that can be generated from ocean
10. Principles of OTEC energy utilization-Discuss
11. Principles of obtaining energy from the tides-Interpret
12. Tabulate the advantages and limitations of tidal power generation
13. Main types of OTEC power plants-Illustrate
14. Write short note about wave energy conversion methods
15. Compose Direct Energy Conversion
16. Discuss Carnot cycle?
17. Principle Of Thermo Electric Power Generator-Summarize
18. Illustrate the materials used for MHD generation
19. See beck Thermo Electric Effect-Define
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 20. Sort out the advantages of MHD generation.
PART-B
1. Explain vapour dominated hydrothermal power plant with neat sketch and its representation on
T-S diagram.
2. With the help of neat diagram, explain the working of geo thermal-preheat hybrid.
3. Sketch the working of a liquid dominated single flash steam system and discuss
4. Tabulate the application of geothermal energy.
5. Principle on which OTEC plants are base done-Analyze
6. Illustrate OTEC open cycle and OTEC closed (Anderson)cycle-Discuss.
7. Minimum tidal range required for the working of tidal power plant-Examine
8. Draw and Discuss the schematic layout of a tidal powerhouse.
9. What are the classifications of geo thermal sources?
10. MHD generators principle and working-Infer
11. Discuss about various fuel cells and its applications.
12. Compose the working of a thermoelectric generator.
13. Illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of direct energy conversion.
14. Give short notes on superconductivity and gas conductivity.
PART-C
1. Explain in brief the different types of prime movers for Geo Thermal energy conversion.
2. Highlight the difference between single Basin and double basin arrangements.
3. Principles of DEC and Need for DEC-Examine
4. Investigate the direct energy conversion with any three examples.

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