Q-Bank MRET/PMRET 105/2018

Define climate, weather and environment. What is tropic and non-tropic zone? What are the recent trends
and behavior of climate change? What are natural resource and resource?
How we can use and mange natural resource responsibly for good management of global warming and
climate change? Give your thoughts on recycle reuse reduce re develop and re produce actions.
What is the difference between capital, human and natural resources?
What are the causes of climate change- Identify the indicators or evidences that reveal climate change?
What are the UN steps to save our planet?
What are the global climate change mitigation steps, concern of IPCC?
What is national determined contribution (NDC) and back ground of conference of parties (COP)? What
is carbon footprint?
What is GHG emission? What are methods of GHG measurement? Explain why HFC, HCFCs are super
green house gases. How it impacts climate change and ways to overcome it?
Explain CDM and Carbon credit? List types of CDM projects. CDM prospects and Difficulty. Discuss,
what is carbon footprint and CO2e (carbondioxide equivalent), list various scopes of carbon footprint
assessment, what is organizational carbon foot print and product carbon footprint, what is carbon
footprint assessment boundary. Describe the importance of Global Governance of environment.
What is your understanding about human comfort level parameter? What is microclimate?
What climate parameters are important to design a bio-climatic building?
Why understanding of comfort level and discomfort level are important for Engineers and Architects?
Background and History of Earthquake in Bengal. Measurement of Epi Centre, describe Earthquake
warning system.
What is energy and radiant energy? What is energy? What is energy conversion concepts and causes of
conversion losses?
What are End Energy uses? List different types of buildings Explain different types of energy uses in the
Building in its life cycle. Explain BIPV and it benefit, Describe use of PV in Rural and Urban building
Architecture.
What is Demand Side Management (DSM)? How can we implement DSM step by step? What are the
benefits of DSM? What is load level and load shape? How DSM can change load shape and load level?
Describe new technology and smart grid for DSM? Discuss various categories of DSM.
What is Energy Management? List Major steps of Energy Management.
What is energy Audit and its importance?
What are the main target areas in energy audit? What is heat energy, energy audit strategy?
What type of equipment is required for energy audit, what are the major strategy for energy audit?
What is energy and analysis of EXERGY? What is energy intensity and energy balance?

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List different construction material and energy efficient building and construction material and its
importance. What is embodied energy of building material? Pollution consequence of building material,
explain. Describe high, medium and low energy category of building material.
What is low energy building, what are the parameters for green building design?
What is psychrometry? Explain cooling and Dehumidification, What information we can get from a
psychrometric chart?
Describe Cool Roof Concept- what is energy code terminology and Cool roofing terminology.
What are the testing methods for cool roof and requirement for cool roof maintenance?
What is the impact of roof temperature in energy consumption of the room?
Describe urban heat island effect. Describe building envelope and roof energy savings steps. Explain
sustainable development and its importance.
Thermal Insulation-
What is thermal insulation? Types of thermal insulation.
What is the application/ benefit of thermal insulation? What are the thermal insulation that gives the
construction of Building some extra benefit? What is the major factor that affects the performance of
thermal insulation material? What is the role of thermal insulation in building energy efficiency? What
are the required properties of thermal insulation? What is meant by R-Value U-Value of insulation
material?
What is Electric Power factor? Describe active power, apparent power and reactive power. Explain
methods of Power factor corrections.
Motor-
What is an energy efficient motor? When and why you choose to replace energy efficient motor? How
you decide replacement Vs repair of motor? Explain Variable Speed Drive (VSD) and High Efficient
Motor (HEM).
What is the relationship between energy efficient motor and power factor improvement? List different
types of motors
What is Green Construction Code? What is IGCC? What is passive heating and cooling?
What is green building? What steps determines if a building is green or not?
What are benefits of Green Building? Discuss basic factors of thermal comfort. What are code and
standard of Green Building? What operating measures required to adjust and control to achieve building
energy efficiency? What is the building rating system? Explain energy star, BREEM, LEED for USGBC.
What are the links of LEED for USGBC, explain building codes and standards? Identify technique to
increase energy efficiency and deliver zero emission from buildings (Green). What is indoor Air Quality
or (IAQ) indoor emission quality? How we can improve it?

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Light: Explain formation of light technology. Describe natural light and artificial light. What are Task
light and its Lux requirement? Define lighting terms LUX, lumen, candela, efficacy etc.
What is illumination quality of lighting, define shielded and unshielded lighting
What is energy efficient lighting? Give a brief history of lighting technology? Tungsten CFL LED,
OLED light Tech. Explain. Explain Role of Windows in Building. What is energy efficient Windows?
Describe various glasses that play the role of smart glasses in Windows, Buildings.

Cogeneration
What is Passive and Active Cooling? What is Cogeneration? Benefit of Cogeneration.
How you can we achieve it in a projects? Give example of sites where cogeneration is applicable.
What is trigeneration/Risk of trigeneration? And its prospects.
What is Waste heat recovering (WHR)? What are different Techniques for WHR implementation?
Boiler
What is Boiler? Describe types of Boiler. What is Energy efficient Boiler? Boiler applications in Garment
industry. Explain the role of Ecomizer in a Boiler.
Sound and noise: What is acoustics and its unit, application of acoustics in building design, differentiate
between sound and vibrations with examples. What is noise and noise pollution? What are the sources of
Noise Pollution? How noise can affect health of human and other living organism. Compare speed of
light with speed of sound. What is AM/FM and reverberation time, Echo? What is useful reflection in
acoustics? What is Stadia? What is sound wave behavior in different media? How can we solve, reduce
noise pollution?
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