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DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(An Autonomous Institute Affiliated to VTU, Belagavi)
Shavige Malleshwara Hills, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bengaluru-560078

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Internal Assessment Test - I
Course: Wind and Solar Energy Systems
Course Code: EE73 Maximum marks: 50
Semester: 7th Duration: 90 Min

Blooms COs Marks

Level
1 a. . ------ state in India producing highest amount of solar power. 1x10

A. Karnataka
B. Gujrat
C. TamilNadu
D. Andhra Pradesh

b. Doping a semiconductor to improve its conductivity means:

A. adding elements with 3 valence electrons

B. adding silicon or germanium to the semiconductor
C. adding group 3 and group 5 elements
D. adding elements with 5 valence electrons

c. The zenith angle is the angle made by the sun’s rays with the ____ to a ______
surface.

A. Normal, horizontal
B. tangent, horizontal
C. normal, vertical
D. tangent, vertical

d. The region where the electrons and holes diffused across the junction is called
________
A. Depletion Junction
B. Depletion region
C. Depletion space
D. Depletion boundary
e. The current produce by the solar cell can be given by _________

A. IL – ID + ISh
B. IL + ID – ISh
C. IL + ID + ISh
D. IL – ID – ISh

f. __________ photo voltaic devices in the form of thin films.

A. Cadmium Telluride
B. Cadmium oxide
C. Cadmium sulphide
D. Cadmium sulphate
 g. The solar or photo voltaic cell converts
A. Chemical energy to electrical energy
B. Solar radiation into electrical energy
C. Solar radiation into thermal energy
D. Solar thermal energy into electrical energy
.

h. The voltage of a single solar cell is

A. 0.5 V
B. 1 V
C. 1.1 V
D. 5 W.

i. A module is a -----------
A. A. newly installed solar cell
B. parallel arrangement of solar cells
C. a series arrangement of solar cells
D. none of the above.

j. A stand-alone solar power plant consists of

A. Solar photovoltaic panels
B. Storage batteries
C. Charge controllers
D. All of the above
2 Design a PV system for the given case study. 6 4 10
Case study: A house has the following electrical appliance usage.
One 18 watt fluorescent lamp used 4 hours per day, one 6 Watt fan used for 2 hours
per day, one 75 Watt refrigerator that runs 24 hours per day. The system will be
powered by 12 V dc, 110Wp PV module.
3 Explain standalone type of PV system with neat sketches. 4 1 10
4 Explain in details, design of PV system for off-grid application. 2 4 10
OR
Explain working of basic PV cell and Explain types of silicon solar cells in details. 2 1 10
5 Explain any two thin film solar cells 5 2 10
OR
Explain the concept of partial shading and explain a method to minimize the effect 2 2 10
of shading.

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