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EXAMINATION
Semester 2 2010
ELEC3130

ELECTRIC MACHINES AND POWER SYSTEMS

FINAL EXAMINATION
This paper is for Callaghan

Examination duration:

3 hours

Reading time:

10 minutes

students

This examination has 4 pages.

This examination has 10 questions.
Materials supplied by examinations:
1 4 Page Booklet
1 12 Page Booklet

Any non-programmable calculators are allowed

Special Instructions:
Students must answer four (4) questions from Part A and three (3) questions from
Part B.
Part A is valued at 40%.
Part B is valued at 60%.
All questions of Part A are of equal value.
All questions of Part B are of equal value.

You must hand in this examination question paper and any related materials at the
conclusion of the examination.

ELEC3130 Electric Machines and Power Systems

Part A: Answer any four(4) questions
1. A DC shunt generator gave the following results in the open circuit test at a speed of 800
rpm:
Field Current (A): 1
E.M.F (V):
90

2
185

3
251

4
290

6
324

8
345

10
360

Under the load condition the field resistance is adjusted to 50 and the terminal voltage is
300 V. The armature resistance is 0.1 .
Assuming that the flux is reduced by 5% due to armature reaction, find the load current supplied
by the generator.
(10 Marks)
2. A 50 Hz, 8 pole induction motor has a full load slip of 4%. The rotor resistance is 0.001
per phase and the stand still reactance is 0.005 per phase. Find the ratio of maximum torque
to full load torque and the speed at which the maximum torque occurs. Stator resistance, core
losses and friction and windage losses may be ignored.
(10 Marks)
3. The rotor emf of a 3-phase, 6 pole, 400 V, 50 Hz induction motor alternates at 3 Hz.
Compute the speed and percentage slip of the rotor. Find the rotor copper loss per phase if
the full input to the rotor is 111.9 kW.
(10 Marks)
4. The synchronous reactance per phase of a 3-phase, star-connected, 6600 V, round rotor,
synchronous motor is 10 . For a certain load, the input is 900 kW and the induced line to line
e.m.f is 8900 V. Evaluate the line current. Neglect armature resistance.
(10 Marks)
5. A resultant current space vector has a peak magnitude of 15.4 amperes and an angle of
13 relative to the a-phase magnetic axis, which has been taken as the reference axis. Find
the a, b and c phase components of the resultant current space vector.
(10 Marks)

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Part B: Answer any three(3) questions

6.
When operated at rated voltage, a 230 volt shunt motor runs at 1800 rpm at full load
and at no-load. The full load armature current is 50 amps, the shunt field winding has 1500
turns per pole and the resistance of the armature circuit is 0.2 .
The magnetisation characteristic at 1800 rpm is:
generated emf
field current

200 210
0.53 0.59

220
0.65

230 240 250

0.73 0.81 0.95

(a) Compute the demagnetising effect of armature reaction at full load in ampere-turns per
pole.
(b) A long shunt cumulative series winding having six turns per pole and a resistance of 0.055
is added to the machine. Compute the speed at full load current and rated voltage,
with the same shunt field circuit resistance as in part (a).
(c) With the series field winding of part (b) installed, compute the internal starting torque
if the starting armature current is limited to 90 amps and the shunt field current has its
nominal value. Assume that the corresponding demagnetising effect of armature reaction
is 230 ampere-turns/pole.
(20 Marks)
7. A 3 phase, 6 pole, 220 V, 60 Hz induction motor has an effective rotor to stator turns ratio
Nre /Nse of 0.8. Regard the machine as ideal. A balanced wye-connected load of 3 resistance
in parallel with 2200 F capacitance in each phase is connected to the rotor terminals. The
motor is rotating at 350 rev/min. Determine
(a) The effective impedance per phase as seen from the stator side.
(b) The total power delivered by the supply.
(c) The power delivered to the rotor load.
(d) The mechanical power.
(e) The shaft torque.
(20 Marks)

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8. A 440 volt, 6 pole, three phase, star connected, synchronous motor has a resistance of
0.6 /phase and a synchronous reactance of 5 /phase. The machine takes a current of 30 A
at a power factor of 0.8 leading. Find the excitation voltage and the machine angle.
If the machine angle on no-load is two mechanical degrees what is the net torque developed by
the motor.
(20 Marks)
9. A 750-kV line utilizes a bundling arrangement of four conductors per phase, as shown in
Figure 1.

Figure 1: Physical dimensions of 750-kV line for Question 9.

(a) Compute the reactance per phase of this line at 60 Hz. Each conductor carries 25 percent
of the phase current, and we assume transposition.
(b) Find the cable dimensions of a hypothetical single-conductor that would have the same
inductance as the given line.
(c) Compute the shunt capacitance per phase of the given line. Assume that the charge
per phase divides equally between the four conductors. Neglect the effect of earth on
capacitance.
(20 Marks)

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10. Draw the impedance diagram for the power system shown in Figure 2. Mark impedances
in per unit. Neglect resistance, and use a base of 50,000 kVA, 138 kV in the 40 line.
The ratings of the generators, motors, and transformers are:
Generator 1: 20,000 kVA, 13.2 kV, X = 15%
Generator 2: 20,000 kVA, 13.2 kV, X = 15%
Synchronous Motor 3: 30,000 kVA, 6.9 kV, X = 20%
Three-phase Y-Y transformers: 20,000 kVA, 13.8Y-138Y kV, X = 10%
Three-phase Y- transformers: 15,000 kva, 6.9-138Y kV, X = 10%
All transformers are connected to step up the voltages of the generators to the transmission
line voltages.

Figure 2: One line diagram for Question 10.

(20 Marks)

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