Plant capacity factor - MCQs with answers

Plant capacity factor - MCQs with answers

Q1. What is the plant capacity factor?

a. A ratio of kWh generated to the product of plant capacity and the number of hours for which the plant is in operation.

b. The ratio of sum of individual maximum demands to the maximum demand on power stations.

c. The ratio of actual energy produced to the maximum possible energy.

d. The ratio of maximum demand on the power station to the connected load.

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Q2. Capacity factor will be very low when the power plant

a. Is operated as base load plant.
b. Is operated for supplying base load as well as the peak loads.
c. Is operated in emergency only.
d. Is under maintainance.

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Q3. A thermal generating station has a installed capacity of 15 MW and supplies a daily load of 10 Mw for 12 hours and 5 MW for remaining 12 hours. The plant capacity factor for this station is

a. 1
b. 0.75
c. 0.67
d. 0.5

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Q4. In a power station, the cost of generation of power reduces most effectively when

a. Diversity factor alone increases.
b. Both diversity factor and load factor increases.
c. Only load factor increases.
d. Both diversity factor and load factor decreases.

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