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Geothermal Energy Questions and Answers

1.

Which geothermal province/site occurs in Ladakh ?

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: B

The geothermal field in Ladakh is Puga.

The Puga valley in Ladakh is India's most promising geothermal field, with hot springs, borax and sulphur deposits, and has been chosen for a pilot geothermal power project.

Manikaran is in Himachal Pradesh, Surajkund hot spring in Jharkhand, and Tattapani in Chhattisgarh.

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2.

When the temperature range in geothermal resource is generally low, electrical power generation from such resources require the use of secondary low boiling point fluid. This is generally known as

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The key gives the Rankine cycle: low temperature geothermal resources run a binary cycle, in which a secondary fluid of low boiling point is vaporised and drives the turbine in a Rankine cycle. A production well is a part of the field, and flash steam and hot dry rock are other types of geothermal systems, so they are not the name of the cycle. This explanation follows the official key.

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