EE8015-ELECTRIC ENERGY GENERATION UTILIZATION AND CONSERVATION

QUESTION BANK

UNIT I- ILLUMINATION

PART-A
1. List the type of lighting system
2. List the various factors for designing the lighting scheme.
3. What is the importance of street lighting system?
4. Specify any four energy efficient lamps
5. Why tungsten is used as filament material
6. Define – Waste Light Factor
7. Mention any two uses of flood lighting.
8. Mention some of the reflectors commonly used in industrial lighting.
9. How does operation of a fluorescent tube differ when it is used on ac and dc supply?
10. State Lambert’s law.
11. Define – Brightness or Luminance.
12. Define – Utilization Factor in the design of the lighting scheme
13. Define – Luminous Intensity
14. What are the two laws of illumination?
15. State inverse square law.

PART-B
1. Discuss laws of illumination and its limitations in actual practice.
2. With the neat diagram explain the construction and working of CFL lamp.
3. Describe the construction and principle of operation and application of a.Filament lamp. b.
Sodium vapour lamp. c. Fluorescent lamp.
4. Explain the working of high pressure mercury vapour lamp with a neat sketch.
5. Explain the various factors to be taken into account for designing schemes for
1. Street lighting. 2. Flood lighting. 3. High way lighting
6. Explain the various steps followed in the calculation of illumination for designing the
residential lightning.
7. Explain how you proceed to design a choke and a capacitor for a fluorescent tube?
8. A lamp of uniform intensity of 200 C.P is enclosed dins glass globe. 25% of light emitted by
lamp is absorbed by the globe. Determine the brightness of globe, C.P of globe if diameter of
globe is 30cm.
9. A lamp of 500CP is placed 2m below a plane mirror which reflects 80% of light falling on
it. Determine illumination at a point 5m away from the foot of the lamp which is hung 5m
above the ground
 UNIT- II REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING
PART-A
1. Why thermostat is used in a domestic refrigerator?
2. Mention the requirements of air conditioning
3. Define Saturated and superheated water vapour.
4. What is the role of evaporator in vapour compression refrigeration system?
5. List out any 4 trouble shooting of refrigerator.
6. Define water cooler.
7. Write the Application of energy efficiency classes.
8. List out the Indian Motor Efficiency Standards.
9. Define Saturated and superheated water vapour.
10. What are the Factors in air conditioning?
PART-B

1. Briefly write a note on air conditioner and explain its types with neat diagrams.
2. Describe in detail about the energy efficient motor and also list out the need for energy
efficient of motor.
3. Discuss in detail about the refrigeration with neat block diagram and also draw its electric
circuit diagram.
4. Explain the working of a Motor life cycle.
5. Explain the terms efficiency evaluation factor, Direct Savings and payback analysis.
6. With neat diagram explain the working of water cooler and its types.
 UNIT – III HEATING AND WELDING
PART-A
1. Why the electric heating is considered to be superior when compared to the other methods
of heating?
2. Write short notes on indirect resistance
heating. 3.Write short notes on direct resistance
heating.
4.What are the requirements of a good heating material?
5.What is the principle of arc furnace?
6. What are the characteristics of induction heating?
7. Differentiate core type and coreless type induction furnaces.
8. What are the advantages of Ajax Wyatt furnace?
9.What is the principle of dielectric heating?
10.What are the advantages of dielectric heating?
11. What is meant by welding?
12.List the advantages of electric heating.
13. Classify the methods of electric heating.
14. What are the causes of failure of heating elements?
15. What is meant by indirect resistance heating?
PART-B
1. Draw a neat sketch of induction furnace and explain its working.
2. An insulating material 2 cm thick and 150 sqcm in area is to be heated by dielectric heating.
The material has a permittivity of 4 and p.f. as 0.04.Power required is 400W and frequency of
40Mhz.Determine the voltage and the current that will flow through the material, if the
voltage were limited to 700V,what will be the frequency to get same loss.
3. Explain with neat sketch the principle and operation application and control methods of
Ajax Wyatt furnace
4. Explain the principle of arc welding and the difference between carbon and metal arc welding
and their relative merits and demerits.
5. Explain the characteristic of welding transformer.
6. Discuss in detail about any two types of resistance welding.
7. Explain the process & various methods of electric arc welding.
8. Determine the efficiency of a high frequency induction furnace which takes 10 minutes to
melt 1.815kg of aluminum. The input to the furnace being 5KW and the initial temperature 15
Degree centigrade, Specific heat of aluminum -0.212K Cal/Kg, Melting point- 660 Degree
centigrade, Latent heat of fusion of aluminum -76.8K Cal/Kg.
9. Explain the various types of electric arc welding.
10. Explain the principle and working of welding transformer.
 UNIT – IV TRACTION
PART-A
1. What is meant by electrical drives?
2. What are the different types of drives?
3. What are the different types of electrical drives?
4. What are the advantages of electric drives?
5. Mention the different factors for the selection of electric drives.
6. What are the parts of electrical drives?
7. What are the applications of electrical drives?
8. What is an individual drive?
9. What are the disadvantages of an individual drive?
10. What are the advantages of group drive?
11. What are the factors that influence the choice of electrical drives?
12. Draw the basic block diagram of electric drive.
13. What are the advantages of electric traction system?
14. What are the requirements of ideal traction system?
15. How would you analyze the speed time curve for electric train?

PART-B
1. Explain the principle and operation of a modern ac locomotive.
2. What are the various types of electric braking used in traction? Discuss in detail.
3. The distance between two stations is 1.6km and the average speed of the train is 40 kmph. The
acceleration is 2kmphps, retardation during coasting is 0.16 kmphps and braking is 3.2kmphps
respectively. Assuming a simplified quadrilateral speed time curve, determine duration of
acceleration, coasting and barking periods and distance covered during braking period.
4. Explain supply system of electric traction in details.
5. Explain the factors governing the selection of motors.
6. A train weighing 203 tonnes accelerates uniforms from the rest to a speed of 45kmph up a
gradient of 1 in 500, the time taken being 30 seconds. The power is then cut off the coasts
down as uniform gradient of 1 in 1000 for a period of 40 seconds when brakes are applied
for period of 15 seconds so as to bring the train uniformly to the rest on this gradient.
Calculate the maximum power output from the driving axle. (ii) The energy taken from the
conductor rails in kWh. Assume efficiency is 60%, traction effort is 44 Newton/Tonne at all
speed, rotational inertia is 10%.
7. Explain in detail about the various types of electric drives.
8. List the requirements of electric traction system
9. Explain about multi motor speed control
10. Explain the DC series traction motor control.
 UNIT V DOMESTIC UTILIZATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY
PART-A

1. Define Electrical wiring with its General requirements.

2. Draw a Schematic of Joint Box method of wiring
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Loop-in Methods of wiring?
4. List the different types of Internal House Wiring systems
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Conduit Wiring?
6. Compare different types of wiring system.
7. List few of the induction-based home appliances
8. What is the concept behind “On-line” and “Off-line” UPS ?
9. What are the difference between Online and offline UPS?
10. List the main types of Lithium -ion Batteries.
11. What is battery lifespan?
12. What is the difference between Linear and Non-Linear Loads?
13. List the problems / issues due to non-linear loads and harmonics.
14. Define Earthing.
15. What happens if an appliance is Earthed Properly?

PART-B
1. Narrate in details about domestic utilization of Energy with Source and
loading conditions.
2. Explain in details Domestic Induction based appliances and its impacts in Power
quality?
3. What is UPS? Explain with schematic about Online and Offline Mode.
4. Discuss in detail about linear and non-linear loads in domestic utilization.
5. Elaborate in detail about UPS, non-linear loads and its related power quality aspects.
6. Explain about the purpose, types of earthing.
7. With neat diagrams explain the domestic earthing and different types.
8. With neat diagram explain the Industrial earthing and different types.
9. Explain the detailed process of Substation earthing.