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Objective Questions 451<br />

56. Peak load plants are designed to supply power at<br />

(a) low capital cost and low operating cost<br />

(b) high capital cost and low operating cost<br />

(c) low capital cost and high operating cost<br />

(d) high capital cost and high operating cost.<br />

57. The overall efficiency of thermal power plant is low due to low efficiency of<br />

(a) steam turbine and condenser (b) boiler<br />

(c) alternator (d) economizer.<br />

58. As compared to steam stations, hydro–power stations have<br />

(a) more cost of installation<br />

(b) less maintenance and fuel cost<br />

(c) both (a) and (b)<br />

(d) low transmission cost and depreciation charges.<br />

59. In practice, the cost of energy transmisson is minimum for<br />

(a) natural gas power plants (b) diesel power plants<br />

(c) nuclear power plants (d) steam power plants.<br />

60. The peak load demand of an industrial area is met by<br />

(a) nuclear power plant (b) storage batteries<br />

(c) diesel power plant (d) steam power plant.<br />

61. The main objective of tariff is to distribute equatibly the cost of<br />

(a) installation and fuel<br />

(b) power transmission and distribution<br />

(c) both (a) and (b)<br />

(d) supplying energy among various classifications of use.<br />

62. actors involved in fixing tariff are<br />

(a) secured return from each consumer<br />

(b) simplicity, cheapness and easy explainability<br />

(c) incentives to consumers and charge according to use<br />

(d) all of these.<br />

63. Disadvantages of low power factor are<br />

(a) high rating of generating, transmitting and distributing equipments<br />

(b) large voltage drop and poor voltage regulation<br />

(c) large copper loss and high capital cost<br />

(d) all of these.<br />

64. Diversity factor is the<br />

(a) ratio of maximum load on the station to sum of consumer's maximum demands<br />

(b) ratio of maximum demand to averge demand<br />

(c) reciprocal of (b) reciprocal of (a).<br />

65. Demand factor for a domestic fan and refrigerator is approximately<br />

(a) 0.75 and 1.0 (b) 0.6 and 0.75 (c) 0.50 and 0.50 (d) 0.33 and 0.73<br />

66. The surge impedance of a transmission line differs from its characteristic impedance, as<br />

surge impedance considers line<br />

(a) copacitance to be zero (b) resistance of finite value<br />

(c) inductance to be zero (d) both (c) and (a).<br />

67. The power factor of receiving end of transmission line is<br />

(a) equal to power factor of sending end<br />

(b) not related to the power factor of sending end

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