Code No.

9177

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

B.E. 4/4 (EEE) I Semester (Main) Examination, December/January 2014-15

Subject : Power System Operation and Control
Time : 3 Hours

Max. Marks: 75

Note: Answer all questions of Part - A and answer any five questions from Part-B.
PART A (25 Marks)
1 How PV buses are handled in G-S method?
2 For the system shown in figure 1, Find YBus?

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Figure 1
3 What is the criteria for economic operation of n-planks neglecting transmission
losses?
4 What is the need of maintaining network frequency constant in power systems?
5 Define load flow solution.
6 Write the expressions for area control errors (ACEs) of two-area control system.
7 A 50 Hz, four pole turbo generator raked 100 MVA, 11 kV has an inertia constant of
8 MJ/MVA. Find the stored energy in the rotor at synchronous speed?
8 List out the assumptions made in transient stability.
9 Define the transient stability criterion of given system.
10 Give the classification of FACTS controllers.

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PART B (50 Marks)

11 The following is the system data given for a load flow solution:
Bus code Admittance
1-2
2- j 8
1-3
1- j 4
2-3
0.666-j 2.664
2-4
1- j 4
3-4
2- j 8

Bus Pg Qg Pd
1
?
?
0

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Qd
Bus voltage
0 1.06 + j 0(Slack Bus)

0.5 0.2

? (PQ Bus)

0.4 0.3

? (PQ Bus)

0.3 0.1

? (PQ Bus)

Find the voltages at the end of first iteration during Gauss-Seidel method. Take
acceleration factor = 1.6.
12 (a) Draw the Flow Chart for load flow solution by FDLF method.
(b) Develop load flow equations and explain N-R method of load flow solution using
polar coordinates.
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13 (a) Derive an expression for Bmn coefficients.

(b) A system consists of two planks connected by a transmission line. The only load
is located at plant 2. When 200 MW is transmitted from plant 1 to plant 2 power
loss in the line is 16 MW. Find the required generation for each plant and the
power received by the load when = Rs.12.5/MWh. Assume that incremental fuel
costs can be approximated by the following expressions.
dF1
dF
0.01 p1 8.5 Rs / MWh ; 2 0.015 p 2 9.5 Rs / MWh
dp1
dp 2

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14 (a) Obtain the steady state response of load frequency control of an isolated power
system for uncrontrolled case?
(b) Derive the state variable model of LFC for single area system.

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15 (a) Derive the swing equation.

(b) Find the maximum steady state power transfer for the system shown in figure 2.

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16

Figure 2
Find the critical clearing angle for the system shown in figure 3 for a three-phase
fault at point p. The generator is delivering 1.0 pu power under pre-fault
conditions.

Figure 3
17 (a) Explain the principle of operation UPFC with neat diagrams.
(b) Explain the factors that affect transient stability.
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