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    Energy Production-Exam Style Questions

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    This document contains 7 exam-style questions about energy production. Question 1 asks to calculate the wavelength of maximum intensity from the Sun given its surface temperature. Question 2 asks to calculate the mass of coal burned per second in a power plant given the power requirement, efficiency, and energy content of coal. Question 3 asks to determine the specific energy of a battery given the mass of its chemical and the power and duration it can provide to an appliance.

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    Energy Production – Exam Style Questions

    1) The surface temperature of the Sun is 5870K. Calculate the


    wavelength at which the intensity of the radiation from the Sun is a
    maximum.

    2) A coal-burning plant station provides the energy needs of a certain


    community which has an average power requirement
    of 670MW. The power station has an overall efficiency of 35%.

    The specific energy of coal is 28×106J⋅kg−1. Calculate the mass of


    coal burned every second.

    3) A battery contains about 10g of chemical which supplies sufficient


    energy to run a small appliance which has a power rating of 
    0.65W for 22 hours. Determine the specific energy of the battery.

    4) A certain nuclear fission power station has a useful power output


    of 2.5GW. The average energy released per fission is 200MeV.
    Determine how many fission reactions occur in one hour if the power
    plant has an overall efficiency of 45%.
    5)

    a) The Sun has a radius of 7.0×108m and its surface temperature


    is 5800K. Calculate the power radiated by the Sun.

    b) The Sun is 1.5×1011m away from the Earth. Determine the


    average solar power incident per unit area at a distance equal to
    the radius of the Earth's orbit.

    6) A real estate company runs five buildings that each contain 50


    apartments. The company wants to use solar panels to provide hot
    water to its tenants. The solar panels have 20% efficiency. The
    average power needed per appartment is 3.5kW and the average
    solar intensity received on the Earth's surface is 450W⋅m−2.

    Determine the total surface area of the solar panels required by the


    real estate company.

    7) A small coastal village consists of 50 houses and each house


    requires 8kW of power. It is proposed that a wind generator be used
    to supply the energy needs of the village since the effective average
    wind speed in the area is 8.0m⋅s−1. The wind generator has an
    efficiency of 30% and the average air density in the region
    is 1.3kg⋅m−3.

    a) Calculate the length of the blades of a generator needed


    to generate 8kW.

    b) If the wind generators need to be at least 300m apart, determine the


    minimum area of land needed for 50 wind generators. 

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