Chapter 3.

1. What do you mean by solar constant, extraterrestrial radiation, insolation, irradiance and
sun-shine hour?
2. What are the types of solar collector? Differentiate each with others.
3. What are the advantages, disadvantages and challenges of solar photo-voltaic
technology?
4. What are the applications of PV systems?
5. Describe the characteristics of Solar Cell.

Chapter 3.2

1. Describe about the components of Hydro Power Plants.

2. Describe about the types of Hydro Power Plants.
3. How you categorize the hydropower schemes and hydro power turbines?
4. Differentiate between the impulse and reaction turbines.
5. What are the characteristics of impulse turbine?
6. What are the characteristics of reaction turbines?

Chapter 3.3

1. What are the types of wind turbine? Describe advantages and disadvantages of wind
technology.
2. What are wind energy sources? Describe about wind generation.

Chapter 3.4

3. What are the types of geothermal power plant? Describe each one.

Chapter 3.5

1. What is biomass and describe its potential?

2. Describe about the thermo-chemical conversion process of biomass.
3. Describe about the bio-chemical conversion process of biomass.
4. What are the types, uses and advantages of briquetting? Describe in brief.
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5. Describe about the production, storage and transmission of hydrogen fuel.

6. Write the advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen fuel technology.
7. Describe fuel cell technology? How it works?
8. How does Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC)works? Describe with chemical equations.
9. How does Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC)works?
10. What are the similarities and differences between SOFC and PEMFC?

Chapter 1

1. What is technology? Write about its types.

2. What are the characteristics of Appropriate Technology? How the characteristics help in
transformation of society.
3. What is technology transfer? Describe its importance.

Chapter 2

1. Describe the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs.

2. ‘Development is a function of energy consumption’. Justify in the basis of existing data.
3. Describe the energy consumption and production pattern in world.
4. Describe the energy consumption and production pattern in Nepal.
5. Describe the renewable energy trend in world.
6. What are green house gases and what are the effects of climate change. Describe in brief.
7. Describe in brief about the three flexibility mechanism identified in Kyoto Protocol.

Chapter 4

1. What are the potential nuclear hazards?

2. What are the potential hazards of battery?
3. What are the health impacts of common air pollutants?
4. What are the health impacts of common indoor air pollutants?
5. What may be the technical efforts to reduce indoor air pollutant?
Chapter 5

1. What are the various forms of energy storage? Describe any four in short.
2. Compare the characteristics of various types of battery?
3. Write short notes on flywheel energy storage, super capacitor, pumped storage
hydropower system.
4. Describe the principle characteristics of smart grid system.
5. What is super capacitor?