Code No: R5420201

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(Electrical & Electronics Engineering)

IV B.Tech II Semester(R05) Regular & Supplementary Examinations, April/May 2010 UTILIZATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY Time: 3 hours Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks Max Marks: 80

1. (a) Discuss the merits and demerits of individual and group drives. (b) A 250V D.C shunt motor has an armature resistance of 0.5 and eld resistance of 250. When driving a constant torque load at 600rpm, the motor draws 21A. What will be the new speed of the motor, if an additional 250 resistance is inserted in the eld circuit? 2. (a) Give classication of various electric heating methods along with brief account of their working principle? (b) A 20KW, 1-, 220V resistance oven employs a circular nickel chrome wire for its heating elements. If the wire temperature is not exceed 11700 C and temperature of charge is to be 5000 C, calculate the length and size of wire required. Assume a radiating eciency of 0.6 and the specic resistance of nickel chrome 100x106 cm and emissivity 0.9. 3. (a) With necessary gures, explain the processes of carbon arc welding and metallic arc welding. (b) Explain briey the following modes of heat transfer i. Conduction ii. Convection iii. Radiation 4. (a) State and prove the laws of illumination. (b) An illumination of 300 Lux is to be provided in the class room 20m x 10m with 40 W uorescent lamp. Determine the number and layout of lamps in the lighting installation. Assume suitable data. 5. (a) Explain the construction and operation of uorescent tube and compare it with tungsten lament lamp. (b) A 250 C.P lamp is hung 4m above the centre of a circular area of 6m diameter. Calculate the illumination at the (i) Centre of area (ii) periphery of the area (iii) average illumination. What will be average illumination if reector of 60% eciency is used? 6. (a) What are the dierent systems of track electrication? (b) State the advantages of electric traction over other non-electrical systems of traction including stream traction. 7. (a) Sketch the typical speed-time curve for the train movement and from these derive a simplied speed-time curve (b) A train has schedule speed of 30 Kmph over a level track. Distance between stations being 1 km. Station stopping time is 20seconds. Assuming braking retardation of 3 kmphps and maximum speed 25% greater than average speed, calculate acceleration required to run the service. 8. (a) Describe the procedure of calculating the specic energy consumption of an electric train. (b) A 200 tonne motor coach having 4 motors, each developing 6000 N.M torque during acceleration, starts from rest. If up gradient is 30 in 1000, gear ratio 4, gear transmission eciency 90%, wheel radius 45cm., train resistance 50N/tone, addition of rotational inertia 10%, calculate time taken to attain speed of 50kmph.

Code No: R5420201

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(Electrical & Electronics Engineering)

IV B.Tech II Semester(R05) Regular & Supplementary Examinations, April/May 2010 UTILIZATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY Time: 3 hours Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks Max Marks: 80

1. (a) Discuss the dierent types of drives required for transmission of power from the driving machines to loads. (b) A 200V shunt motor having armature resistance of 0.4 armature current of 20A on full load and runs at 600 r.p.m. If resistance of 0.5 is placed in the armature circuit, nd the speed at (i) Full load torque (ii) Half full load torque (iii) What is ratio of stalling torque to full load torque. 2. (a) What are the factors which decide the frequency and voltage of the dielectric heating? Derive an expression for the heat produced in a dielectric material. (b) A 3- electric arc furnace has the following data: Current drawn=5000A, Arc voltage=50V, Resistance of transformer referred to secondary=0.002, Reactance of transformer referred to secondary= 0.004. Calculate the power factor and KW drawn from the supply. 3. (a) Describe with neat sketches various methods of electric resistance welding. Give its merits and demerits with respect to arc welding. (b) What are the advantages of electric heating? And list the properties of electric heating element. 4. (a) Dene the following terms i. Luminous ux ii. Lumen iii. Lamp Eciency iv. Space-height ratio. (b) It is required to provide an illumination of 100 lumens/m2 in a workshop hall 40m x 10m. Assume depreciation factor is 0.8 and coecient of utilization is 0.4 and eciency of lamps is 14 Lumens/Watt. Calculate number of lamps and their positions when seven trusses are provided at a mutual distance of 5m. 5. (a) Explain with a neat diagram the principle of operation of a sodium vapour lamp. Mention its applications. (b) A light source having an intensity of 700C.P. in all directions is tted with a reector so that it directs 70% of its light alone a beam having a divergence of 200 . What is the total light ux emitted along the beam? What will be average illumination produced on a surface normal to the beam direction at a distance of 25m? Calculate also the C.P of the lamp and the reector as viewed from the illuminated surface. 6. (a) State the advantages of electric traction over other non-electrical systems of traction including steam traction. (b) 400 tonne goods train is to be hauled by a locomotive up a gradient of 2%, with acceleration of 1 kmphps. Coecient of adhesion is 20%, track resistance 40 N/tonne and eective rotating masses 10% of dead weight. Find the weight of locomotive and number of axles if axle load is not increased beyond 22 tonne. 7. (a) What are the dierent methods of approximation of speed-time curves? Derive expressions for distance travelled using quadrilateral approximation method of V(t) curve. (b) A section of tramway ABC is 6km. long and earthed at A. Its resistance is 0.01 ohm/km and loading of 200 amperes/km uniformly distributed. Negative feeder with booster is taken o from point B, 4km from A. If potential of B is 4 volts above earth, calculate the rating of booster, negative feeder resistance being 0.02ohm. 8. (a) What is tractive eort of a train and what are its functions? Derive an expression for the tractive eort developed by a train unit. (b) Two motors of each of 1500V and armature resistance 0.2ohm take 500 amperes during starting, If eective weight of train is 145 tonne, and dead weight of 130 tonne, track resistance of 50 N/tonne, tractive eort/motor 40000 newtons, speed at the end of starting period 40kmph, nd i. Duration of starting period. ii. Speed of train at transition. iii. Rheostatic loss.

Code No: R5420201

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(Electrical & Electronics Engineering)

IV B.Tech II Semester(R05) Regular & Supplementary Examinations, April/May 2010 UTILIZATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY Time: 3 hours Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks Max Marks: 80

1. (a) Describe with the help of connection diagram, the Ward-Leonard method of speed control and explain its working. What are the merits and demerits of this metod? (b) A 220V D.C series motor runs at 1000 r.p.m and takes 20A. Combined resistance of armature and series eld is 0.4 . Calculate the resistance to be inserted in series so as to reduce the speed to 800 r.p.m. Assuming torque to vary as square of the speed and linear magnetization curve. 2. (a) Explain briey the materials of heating elements. (b) A low frequency induction furnace, whose secondary voltage is maintained constant at 10V, takes 400kw at 0.6 power factor, when the hearth is full. Assume the resistance of the secondary circuit to vary inversely as the height of the charge and reactance to remain constant. Find the height up to which the hearth should be lled to obtain maximum heat. 3. (a) What is resistance welding? What are its limitations. (b) Discuss the following applications in dielectric heating. i. Heating of raw plastics ii. Food Processing. iii. Gluing of wood 4. (a) With the neat sketches, explain the importance of polar curves to an illumination engineer. (b) A light source having an intensity of 700C.P. in all directions is tted with a reected so that it directs 70% of its light alone a beam having a divergence of 200 . What is the total light ux emitted along the beam? What will be average illumination produced on a surface normal to the beam direction at a distance of 25m? Calculate also the C.P of the lamp and the reector as viewed from the illuminated surface. 5. (a) Compare the metal lament lamp and discharge lamp. (b) An illumination of 300 Lux is to be provided in a class room 20m x 10m with 40W uorescent lamp. Determine the number and layout of lamps in the lighting installation. Assume suitable data. 6. (a) Discuss the problems associated with diesel-electric traction and indicate how these are overcome in practice. (b) A train has schedule speed of 30 Kmph over a level track, distance between stations being 1 km, Station stopping time is 20 secnonds. Assuming braking retardation of 3kmphps and maximum speed 25% greater than average speed, calculate acceleration required to run the service. 7. (a) What are the dierent methods of approximation of speed-time curves? Derive expressions for distance travelled using quadrilateral approximation method of V curve. (b) 400 tonne goods train is to be hauled by a locomotive up a gradient of 2%, with acceleration of 1 kmphps. Coecient of adhesion is 20%, track resistance 40 N/tonne and eective rotating masses 10% of dead weight. Find the weight of locomotive and number of axles, if axle load is not increased beyond 22 tonne. 8. (a) How does the value of acceleration and retardation aect the specic energy consumption for a given schedule speed? (b) Derive equation of motion of a vehicle. How does the eective mass of a vehicle dier with its physical (actual) mass? Explain the signicance of equation of motion in energy consumption calculations.

Code No: R5420201

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(Electronics & Electronics Engineering)

IV B.Tech II Semester(R05) Regular & Supplementary Examinations, April/May 2010 UTILIZATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY Time: 3 hours Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks Max Marks: 80

1. (a) Explain briey the following motors: i. Brushless D.C. motors ii. Stepper motor (b) 500V series motor having armature and eld resistance of 0.2 and 0.3 runs at 500rpm when taking 70A. Assuming unsaturated eld, nd out its speed when eld diverter of 0.684, is used for following load whose torque (a) remains constant (b) Varies as square of speed. 2. (a) Explain dierent methods of induction heating. Give some applications of heating. (b) A laminated wooden board 30 cm x 16cm x 25cm thick is to be heated from 200 C to 1700 C in 10 minutes by dielectric heating using 30 M.C.P.S supply source. Determine the voltage across the work piece and current during heating. Assume specic Heat of wood is 0.35 and density 0.55gm/c.c, relative permittivity 5, 0.05p.f, and loss of energy by conduction and radiation as 15%. 3. (a) What is the fundamental dierence between electric arc welding and resistance welding. (b) Dene the term welding and Compare A.C and D.C welding. 4. (a) Explain the following terms i. integrating sphere ii. Source of light iii. Photometry (b) It is required provide an illumination of 100 Lux in a factory hall 30m x 15m. Assume that the depreciation factor is 0.8, coecient of utilization is 0.4 and eciency of lamp is 14 Lumens/Watt. Suggest the number of their ratings. The size of the lamps available are 100, 250, 400 and 500W. 5. (a) Why is tungsten selected as the lament material and on what factors does its life depend? (b) A 250C.P lamp is hung 4 m above the centre of a circular area of 6m diameter. Calculate the illumination at the (i) Centre of area (ii) periphery of the area (iii) average illumination. What will be average illumination if reector of 60% eciency is used. 6. (a) Explain the various electric braking systems, employed in braking traction systems. (b) A 200 tonne motor coach having 4 motors, each developing 6000N.M torque during acceleration, starts from rest. If up gradient is 30 in 1000, gear ratio 4, gear transmission eciency 90%, wheel radius 45cm, train resistance 50 N/tone, addition of rotational inertia 10%, calculate time taken to attain speed of 50kmph. 7. (a) Draw the speed-time curve for an electric train accelerating uniformly to speed Vm, the power is cut o and after a time t when it attains Vm coasting is allowed to continue up to the end of the run, the braking being neglected. Derive a suitable equation to determine Vm. (b) A section of tramway ABC is 6km. long and earthed at A. Its resistance is 0.01 ohm/km and loading of 200 amperes/km uniformly distributed. Negative feeder with booster is taken o from point B, 4km from A. If potential of B is 4 volts above earth, calculate the rating of booster, negative feeder resistance being 0.02ohm. 8. (a) Write short notes on the following. i. Factors aecting energy consumption in propelling a train. ii. Mechanism of train movement. iii. Tractive eort for propulsion of train. (b) 400 tonne goods train is to be hauled by a locomotive up a gradient of 2%, with acceleration of 1 kmphps. Coecient of adhesion is 20%, track resistance 40 N/tonne and eective rotating masses 10% of dead weight. Find the weight of locomotive and number of axles, if axle load is not increased beyond 22 tonnes.