Practice Question Set 1 (EE 704D)

Session 2019-20

1. What are green house gases?

2. What are the different components of environment?
3. What environmental hazards are created by the conventional power plants?
4. Explain the importance of non-conventional energy sources in the context of global warming.
5. What is solar time and why it is different from standard clock time of a country?
6. Define declination angle, hour angle, zenith angle, solar azimuth angle of incidence.
7. How economic are the non-conventional sources with respect to the conventional energy
sources? Considering that, how do you rate the future of non-conventional energy source?
8. Write short note on
a) Kyoto protocol
b) Sun-earth angles
c) Solar pond
d) Solar cooker
9. What are the advantages of an Evacuated tube solar water heater over a Flat plate collector
type solar water heater having the same capacity?
10. With the help of a schematic diagram explain the working of solar water heating.
11. What is a solar house?
12. What is the purpose of double layer of glazing in a greenhouse?
13. Calculate the day length of Srinagar on 1st July,2012. Latitude of Srinagar is 34◦ 05’ N.
14. Calculate the number of daylight hours (day length) at Bangalore on 21 st June and 21st
December in a leap year. The latitude of Bangalore is 12 ◦ 58’ N.
15. Calculate the angle of incidence on a horizontal plane surface at Kolkata, at 14:00 hrs (IST)
on 21st march in a leap year. The longitude and latitude of Kolkata are 88 o20’ E & 22o32’ N
respectively. The standard longitude of IST is 81o44’ E.
16. Calculate the monthly average of the daily global radiation on the horizontal surface at
Gulmarg (34.05o N, 74.38o E), during the month of October if the average sunshine hour per day
is 5 hours.