Quiz

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Year 2024

November
Week # 2 Quiz 4

Q1. Determine the ohmic value of the current limiting reactor per phase external to a 40 MVA, 15 kV, 50 Hz, three phase synchronous generator which can limit the current on short circuit of 6 times the full load current. The reactance of the synchronous generator is 0.06 pu.

Q2. A 3-phase transmission line operating at \(V_s = 400 kV\) and it's \(ABCD\) parameters \(A= D = 0.9∠0°, B = 100∠°90 \Omega, C = 0.6 \times 10^{-6}∠90° \mho\). Calculate the value of shunt reactor required to compensate the Ferranti effect.

Q3. A 15-bus power system has 4 - voltage controlled buses. For the load flow analysis using Newton-Raphson method in polar coordinates, the size of the Jacobian matrix is__________.

Q4. 100 km long transmission line is loaded at 110 KV. If the loss of line is 5MW and the load is 150MVA, the resistance of the line is

Q5. In a load flow problem solved by Newton-Raphson method with polar coordinates, the size of the Jacobian is 75 x 75. If there are 25 PV buses in addition to PQ buses and a slack bus, the total number of buses in the system is ________.

Q6. A 440 V, three-phase, 50 Hz source is feeding a load of 250 kVA at 0.6 pf lagging. Find the kVAR to the capacitor bank required to improve the pf to 0.85 lag.

Q7. When a 50MVA ,11KV , 3-phase generator is subjected to a 3-phase fault, the fault current is -j5 p.u.. When it is subjected to line-line fault, the positive sequence current is -j4 p.u.. The positive and negative sequence reactances are respectively

Q8. A steam power station has an overall efficiency of 20% and 0.6 kg of coal is burnt per kWh of electrical energy generated. The calorific value of fuel is

Q9. A 3-phase transmission line is being supported by three disc insulators. The potentials across top unit (i.e., near to the tower) and middle unit are 8 kV and 12 kV respectively. Calculate the ratio of capacitance between pin and earth to the self-capacitance of each unit.

Q10. A transmission line is compensated with shunt capacitance \(C_{sh}\). If the uncompensated transmission line surge impedance is \(Z_s\), then find the new surge impedance \(Z_s ^{'}\) after shunt compensation.