Bioenergy part 2
- The biomass can be used to [CBSE PMT 1992]
(a) Obtain alcohol (b) Generate biogas
(c) Generate producer gas (d) All of these
- The economically friendly measure to conserve solar energy is
[CBSE PMT 1999]
(a) Sugarcane plantation (b) Energy plantation
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these
- Existence of coal and petroleum may be detected with the study of [Pb. PMT 1998]
(a) Palaeobotany (b) Ecology
(c) Bacteriology (d) Economic botany
- Where do tropical wet evergreen forests occur in India
[APMEE 1998]
(a) J & K (b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Bihar (d) Andamans
- Which one of the following is a petroleum plant
(a) Euphorbia (b) Potato
(c) Sugarcane (d) Maize
- HMP is equivalent to ……… total electricity generated/year in India[Manipal PMT 1998]
(a) 2/5 (b) 1/3
(c) 1/4 (d) 1/5
- The term for a blend of 10-15% ethanol with petrol is called
[AFMC 1997]
(a) Gasohol (b) Glycol
(c) Xylol (d) Hexanol
- Producer gas consists of
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
- Biogas produced through anaerobic fermentation of organic material is primarily [AIEEE 2004; BVP 2004]
(a) CO (b) CO2
(c) CH4 (d) CH3
- The pioneer country in the production of fuel-alcohol is
[MP PMT 1994; AFMC 1998]
(a) Saudi Arabia (b) Iran, Iraq
(c) Brazil (d) Japan
- Biofuels are
(a) Renewable (b) Orthodox
(c) Pollution producing (d) Organic wastes
- Pyrolysis of wood is responsible for yielding
[MP PMT 1999]
(a) Alcohol (b) Charcoal
(c) Charcoal and gas (d) Charcoal, gas and oil
1 | b | 2 | c | 3 | a | 4 | d | 5 | a |
6 | d | 7 | a | 8 | c | 9 | c | 10 | c |
11 | a | 12 | d |
- 1. (b) Biomass is the organic matter present in living organisms, their wastes and residues are used in biogas production.
- 2. (c) All green plants stores solar energy by photosynthesis.
- 5. (a) Those plant which latex containing long chain of hydrocarbons is called petroplants. e.g. Euphorbia lathyris, E. caudicifolia, Calotropis procera, Pittosporum resiniferum etc.
- 6. (d) HMP / human muscle power means physical work by human produced energy which about 1/5th of the total generated electricity in India.
- 7. (a) Gasohol programme of U.S.A. uses mixture of 10–15% alcohol and 85–90% petrol.
- 8. (c) Producer gas produced by gasification and it consists , , .
- 10. (c) Pioneer work has been done in Brazil. Pro – alcohol programme in Brazil is aimed at completely replacing petrol with alcohol for running automobiles.
- 11. (a) Biofuels are biological origin, which is a major source of energy. They are renewable and used properly and efficiently.
- 12. (d) Pyrolysis – Thermochemical conversion of wood into charcoal, pyroligneous acid (10% acetic acid) wood gas, wood tar, wood alcohol, etc.
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