Answer the following questions in detail.
Question 1) What are the necessary features of a hydro-electric power plant? Explain the different types of dams used in such plants?
Question 2) Write down the various methods of ash handling. Explain the pneumatic system of ash handling. Why it is necessary to quench the ash before handling?
Question 3) Write down the advantages and disadvantages of gas turbine plant over steam power plant? Describe the working of combined steam and gas power plant.
Question 4) How nuclear waste is disposed off, name the difficulties in handling radioactive waste?
Question 5) Explain the working of solar thermal power generation, with neat and well labelled diagram
Question 6) What are various kinds of reactor commonly used? Explain the fast breeder reactor. Write down the advantages over sodium graphite reactor?
Question 7) What do you mean by load curve? Write down its importance in power generation?
Question 8) What do you mean by tariff? What are the types of tariffs? Describe the two part tariff.
Question 9) Explain run-off in detail. Describe the factors affecting run-off.
Question 10) Explain the methods to find run-off.