Tutorial 1

Exercise 1 A 50 Hz transmission line 300 km has a total series impedance of 40 + 125 and a total admittance of 10-3. The receiving-end load is 50 MW at 220 kV with 0.8 lagging power factor. Find the sendingend voltage, current, power and power factor using i. Short line approximation ii. Medium line approximation iii. Exact transmission line equation Exercise 2 A balanced three-phase load of 30 MW is supplied at 132 kV and 0.85 power factor lagging by means of a transmission lines. The series impedance of a single conductor is and the total phaseneutral admittance is j315 uS. Referring to Figure 1B derive the expression of ABCD in nominal T Model i. Prove that AD-BC=1 ii. Calculate the ABCD constant of the line in nominal T iii. Determine the sending end voltage

Figure 1B: T model for medium transmission line Exercise 3 A 60 km, 69 kV, 50 Hz three phase line with series impedance = 0.1 + 0.2 / . The load at the receiving end draws a current of 500 A. Assume that the sending end voltage is held constant at the rated line voltage. i. Calculate the magnitude of the receiving end voltage if the load power factor is 0.866 lagging ii. Calculate the magnitude of the receiving end voltage if the load power factor is 0.6 leading iii. Comment about the effect of the load power factor on the voltage regulation of the line base on the results obtained in (i) and (ii) Exercise 4 A three-phase transmission line with series impedance = 0.11 + 0.5 / and = 0.333 10 / is connected to 115 kV source. It has a length of 200 km. Use the appropriate model (short,medium or long line model) to: i. Calculate the total series impedance and the total shunt admittance per phase for this line If there is no load connected to the receiving end of the line ii. Calculate the line voltage at the receiving end iii. The current delivered by the source per phase iv. The total reactive power at the sending end v. The total losses in the line