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SeventhSemesterB.E.DegreeExamination,Dec.0TlJan.08
Sources

Non Gonventional EnergY

Max. Marks:100
: 3 hrs.

questions'
Note z l. Answer ony FIVE full
*oy t' suitably assumed'
it
2. Missing
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ii'

(10 Marks)
Namethemajornon-conventionalenergyresourcesavailableinlndiaandexplainwhere

energy.needs'
pyrheliometer'

they are best suited in facing

working oi u
With a neat sketch explain the

(10 Marks)

:
With figures exPlain the following
iii) Solar constant
ii) Diffuse radiation
(10 Marks)
i) Beam radiation
mass
Air
v)
time
iv) Local solar
latitude 230 15'N longitude
and declination at a location
time
solar
local
the
Olt..rin.
from chart is - (1'01"'
19' Equation of time correction
June
on
l2.30lST
at
E
lio lo'
(10 Marks)
be taken as 820 30''
to
is
lo#ro",t*.'[,u*de
:
With neat sketches explain
"^t' the following ii)
Solar power generation
(16 Marks)
i) solar pondr'o
cooke'''
*)'Sotur
system
desalination
(04 Marks)
.
iii) Solar
.,rr,r. merits.
merits'
relative
materials u,ia.*pr*n their
ph.;;]i;ic
three
any
r. Name
of a flat plate
angle and collector efficiency
incident
angle,
altitude
r. calculate solar
LST for a flat
on March 22 at' 14'30 - 15'30
N
1o;0'
I
fi"t*o?
collector ro.u,.a"ui
"i
of solar radiation is to be taken as
intensitv
ih.;;.;tge
of
ptate collecro, r..ii ;td';;;;'.
with transmittance 0 !8r_lhe absorptance
;i;;.o".;s
rhe heat
w/m,.

rh..Jri#;* ;;
it .'ss wj*,0c'
g,!ri*i*,-u, ro' to,ttiol
plate is o.gl uri i;;;"r,
is 750 c' Take
the corector fluid temperature
560

removal factor of the coirector

ambient,.*p.rn*";;;qt

i, o.g2
"" *ura
, ^

(15 Marks)

^--roi- thoir neea and t

b.Auxiliaryheatingsystemforsolarwaterheaters_explaintheirneedandtheirlillil:lffj
collectors performance
following on liquid flat plate
a. Insulation materials (any two is enough)
b. Collector tilt
is enough)
;. Couting, on absorber plate (anyirvotwosystems
enough)
(20 Marks)
d. Water circulation systlm (any
radiation'
e. Diffuse
(10 Marks)
wind and tidal energy'
of
demerits
and
merits
the
(10 Marks)
a. State
their function.
explain
and
turbine
wind
th.
b. write aneat kJ;il"f
(06 Marks)
and explain its working'
plant
gas
bio
a
of
sketch
neat
(06 Marks)
a. Draw a
layout of an OTEC power station'
t[e
explain
sketch
neat
a
b. With
and the factors that influence
biogas by anaerobic fermentation
of
proJuction
the
(08 Marks)
Explain
c.
:

State the influence of the

a.
;

its Production'
methods of producing hydrogen'
Explain in detail any two

. ;;;1. th.

m etho d s

ro:':T' r*"*:,

(10 Marks)
(05 Marks)

these
the problems faced bY