Electrical Machines I

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Electrical Machines II
Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Electrical Machines I

MAGNETIC CIRCUITS AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS
1. Magnetic Circuits and Magnetic Materials - Answer (click here)
2. Laws Governing Magnetic Circuits - Answer (click here)
3. Flux Linkage, Inductance and Energy - Answer (click here)
4. Statically and Dynamically Induced Emf - Answer (click here)
5. Properties of Magnetic Materials - Answer (click here)
6. Iron or Core losses - Answer (click here)
7. AC Operation of Magnetic Circuits - Answer (click here)
8. Transformer as a Magnetically Coupled Circuit - Answer (click here)
9. Solved problems - Magnetic Circuits and Magnetic Materials - Answer
(click here)
10. Important Short Questions and Answers : Electrical machines -
Magnetic Circuits and Magnetic Materials - Answer (click here)

TRANSFORMERS
1. Transformer: Principle of Operation - Answer (click here)
2. An ideal Transformer: Principle of Operation - Answer (click here)
3. Induction Law - Transformer - Answer (click here)
4. Equivalent Circuit of Transformer - Answer (click here)
5. Transformer Losses - Answer (click here)
6. Transformer Tests - Answer (click here)
7. Efficiency of a Transformer - Answer (click here)
8. Voltage Regulation of Transformer - Answer (click here)
9. Auto Transformer - Answer (click here)
10. Three-phase autotransformer connection - Answer (click here)
11. Parallel Operation of Transformers - Answer (click here)
12. Tap Changing in Transformer - Answer (click here)
13. Solved Problems - Transformer - Electrical machines - Answer (click here)
14. Important Short Questions and Answers: Electrical machines -
Transformer - Answer (click here)

ELECTROMECHANICAL ENERGY CONVERSION AND

CONCEPTS IN ROTATING MACHINES
1. Energy In Magnetic Systems - Answer (click here)
2. The Field Energy - Answer (click here)
3. The Co Energy - Answer (click here)
4. Force In A Singly Excited Magnetic Field System - Answer (click here)
5. Force in a Multiply Excited Magnetic Field System - Answer (click here)
6. Mmf of Distributed Windings - Answer (click here)
7. Magnetic Fields In Rotating Machines - Answer (click here)
8. Rotating Mmf Waves - Answer (click here)
9. Torque in Ac And Dc Machines - Answer (click here)
10. Solved Problems - Electromechanical Energy Conversion and Concepts
in Rotating Machines - Answer (click here)
11. Important Short Questions and Answers - Electromechanical Energy
Conversion and Concepts in Rotating Machines - Answer (click here)

DC GENERATORS
1. Construction of DC Machines - Answer (click here)
2. Lap Winding - Answer (click here)
3. Wave Winding - Answer (click here)
4. EMF Equation of DC Generators - Answer (click here)
5. Armature reaction - Answer (click here)
6. Methods of excitation of the field windings - Answer (click here)
7. Methods of Excitation used for DC Generator - Answer (click here)
8. Commutation and Interpoles - Answer (click here)
9. DC Generator Characteristics - Answer (click here)
10. Important short questions and answers: DC Generators - Answer (click here)

DC MOTORS
1. Principle of operation of a D.C. Motor - Answer (click here)
2. Working of D.C. Motor - Answer (click here)
3. Types of DC Motors - Answer (click here)
4. DC Motor Characteristics - Answer (click here)
 5. Speed Control of DC Shunt Motor: Varying Armature Resistance, Field
Resistance - Answer (click here)
6. Starting of DC Motors - Answer (click here)
7. Three Point Starter: Working principle - Answer (click here)
8. Four Point Starter - Answer (click here)
9. Swinburne’s Test - Answer (click here)
10. Hopkinson’s test: Procedure, Calculation of efficiency, Advantages,
Disadvantages - Answer (click here)
11. Braking of DC shunt motor - Answer (click here)
12. Important Short questions and answers: DC Motor - Electrical machines
- Answer (click here)

Subject : Electrical Machines II

SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR
1. Fundamental Principles of A.C. Machines - Answer (click here)
2. E.M.F. equation of an elementary alternator single phase - Answer (click
here)
3. E.M.F. equation of an elementary alternator three phase - Answer (click
here)
4. Relation between speed and frequency - Answer (click here)
5. Factors affecting the induced emf (Coil Pitch and Distributed Windings)
- Synchronous Generator - Answer (click here)
6. Armature Reaction - Synchronous Generator - Answer (click here)
7. Synchronous Generators - Answer (click here)
8. Open circuit characteristic (OCC) and Short Circuit Characteristics
(SCC) of a Synchronous generator - Answer (click here)
9. Armature Reaction Reactance - Synchronous Generators - Answer (click
here)
10. Synchronous reactance - Answer (click here)
11. Short Circuit Ratio (SCR) - Synchronous Generator - Answer (click here)
12. Load Characteristics - Synchronous Generator - Answer (click here)
13. Potier Reactance - Synchronous Generator - Answer (click here)
14. Voltage Regulation - Synchronous Generator - Answer (click here)
15. Methods of finding Voltage Regulation in Synchronous Generator -
Answer (click here)
16. Power angle characteristics - Answer (click here)
17. Salient pole alternators and Blondel's Two Reaction Theory - Answer
(click here)
18. Direct-axis and Quadrature-axis Synchronous Reactances - Answer (click
here)
19. Power Angle Characteristic of Salient Pole Machine - Answer (click here)
20. Slip Test - Answer (click here)
21. Parallel Operation of Alternators - Answer (click here)
22. Synchronizing Current - Answer (click here)
23. Effect of Change of Excitation - Answer (click here)
24. Effect of Change of Input Torque - Answer (click here)
25. Sharing of load when two alternators are in parallel - Answer (click here)
26. Prime-mover Governor Characteristic - Answer (click here)
27. Important Short Questions and Answers: Synchronous Generator -
Answer (click here)

SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR
1. Synchronous Motors: Construction, Operating Principle, Equivalent
Circuit - Answer (click here)
2. Phasor Diagram - Synchronous Motors - Answer (click here)
3. Torque and Power Relations - Answer (click here)
4. V-Curves and Inverted V-Curves - Answer (click here)
5. Effect of Changing Field Excitation at Constant Load - Answer (click here)
6. Synchronous Condenser and its Advantages, Disadvantages - Answer
(click here)
7. Methods of starting synchronous motor - Answer (click here)
8. Performance Characteristic of Synchronous Motors - Answer (click here)
9. Hunting and Damper Winding - Answer (click here)
10. Synchronous Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
11. Important Short Questions and Answers: Synchronous Motors - Answer
(click here)

THREE PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR

1. Three Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
2. Types and Construction of Three Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click
here)
3. Squirrel cage Induction Motors - Answer (click here)
4. Slip ring Induction Motors - Answer (click here)
5. Principle of Operation - Three Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
6. Rotating Magnetic Field and Induced Voltages - Answer (click here)
7. Alternate Analysis for Rotating Magnetic Field - Answer (click here)
8. Phasor Diagram of Three Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
9. Equivalent Circuit of Three Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
10. Power and Torque Relations of Three Phase Induction Motor - Answer
(click here)
11. Induction Motor Torque - Answer (click here)
12. Rotor Output - Answer (click here)
13. Circle Diagram - analyse the three phase induction motor performance -
Answer (click here)
14. Tests to Determine the Equivalent Circuit Parameters - Induction Motor
- Answer (click here)
15. Construction of Circle Diagram - Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
16. Performance Characteristics of Three phase Induction Motor - Answer
(click here)
17. Operation with Unbalanced Supply Voltage on Polyphase Induction
Motors - Answer (click here)
18. Important Short Questions and Answers: Three Phase Induction Motor -
Answer (click here)

STARTING AND SPEED CONTROL OF THREE PHASE

INDUCTION MOTOR
1. Methods of Starting Three Phase Induction Motors - Answer (click here)
2. Starting of Slip-Ring Induction Motors - Answer (click here)
3. Speed control of Three Phase Induction Motors - Answer (click here)
4. Changing applied voltage - Speed control of Three Phase Induction
Motors - Answer (click here)
5. Rotor resistance control - Speed control of Three Phase Induction
Motors - Answer (click here)
6. Cascade control - Speed control of Three Phase Induction Motors -
Answer (click here)
7. Pole changing method - Speed control of Three Phase Induction Motors
- Answer (click here)
8. Stator frequency control - Speed control of Three Phase Induction
Motors - Answer (click here)
9. Power Stages in an Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
10. Double Cage Induction Motor: Construction, Working - Answer (click here)
11. Cogging and Crawling of Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
12. Induction Generator - Answer (click here)
13. Induction Generator advantages, disadvantages and Application - Answer
(click here)
14. Induction Motor Braking Regenerative Plugging Dynamic - Answer (click
here)
15. Important Short Questions and Answers: Starting and Speed Control of
Three Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)

SINGLE PHASE INDUCTION MOTORS AND SPECIAL

MACHINES
1. Single Phase Induction Motors - Answer (click here)
2. Double Revolving Field Theory of Single Phase Induction Motor -
Answer (click here)
3. Equvalent Circuit of Single Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
4. Methods of Starting Single Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
5. Principle and Working of Split Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
6. Types of Split-Phase Induction Motors - Answer (click here)
7. Repulsion starting - Single Phase Induction Motor: Construction,
Working and Characteristics - Answer (click here)
8. Shaped Pole Starting - Single Phase Induction Motor - Answer (click here)
9. Single Phase Series Motor: Operation, Applications, Phasor Diagram -
Answer (click here)
10. Schrage Motor - Answer (click here)
11. Universal Motors: Operation, Characteristic, Applications - Answer (click
here)
12. Magnetic Levitation - Answer (click here)
13. Stepper Motor Advantages and Disadvantages - Answer (click here)
14. Important Short Questions and Answers: Single Phase Induction Motor
and Special Machines - Answer (click here)