10th EAI Contest – Dec 22 – Questions & Answers and Winners

Questions & Answers

1. Which leading international certification firm recently decided to manage the validation and verification of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects from India?

Ans: TUV SUD

2. Two Indian-origin scientists have recently developed what unique clean technology product for smartphones that facilitates development of a sustainable environment?

Ans: Portable pollution sensors

3. Which Indian wind turbine company, specializing in sub-MW segment, was recently in the news for predicting good prospects for this segment?

Ans: Pioneer Wincon

4. The Madras High Court recently dismissed which waste management company’s plea against termination notice for its services in Chennai?

Ans: Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd.

5. Which famous computer company recently started many collection points across India for electronics recycling?

Ans: Dell

Winners

Vikas Patil, Ahmedabad

Graduated in B.E. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani in 2012. Planning to pursue higher studies in the field of sustainable energy technologies, with a focus on solar engineering of thermal processes for power generation, refrigeration, process heat and alternative fuels. Long term career objective is to create and lead a technology-intensive, value-driven Indian enterprise in sustainable energy.

1^st Runner up

Vignesh I M, Sunshine Solpower Generation Ltd., Mumbai

2^nd Runner up

Anand Sundarraj

3^rd Runner up

Sakthi Ganesh R, EKI Energy Services Ltd, Madurai

Sakthi Ganesh is working as an Energy Consultant in EKI Energy Services Limited at Chennai. He has been in cleantech industry for last two years and handling business development activities at western and southern region for EKI ESL. Before that, He has completed his MBA – Power Management from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies at Dehradun. He is fascinated by the carbon and renewable sector. He has a vision to make “Electricity available for all”.

Others who sent all the 5 right answers:

Satyajit suri, G.Vishnu, Sumit V Nawathe, Govind Pingle, Prabhavtar Singh, Ashish Mehta, M.A.S.Tabrez, Vedium Vasanth Kumar, Mudike.Ravi, Lakshman Srikanth, Vivek Patel, Amit Chadha, Shiyamala.S, Vikas Tailor, Rashmi Verma, Piyush Joshi, Sandeep Agarwal, Mahadevan K Narayanan, Aman Konark Modi, Dilip Parmar, Srihari Swamy, Venkataraman Sharma, Aravinda Swamy N K, Krunal A Patel, Kali Shanker, Ponni Laxmi, Manish Saxena, Kiran Chavva, Manoj Sharma, Shunmugam.V, Balamurali Krishnakumar