Code: R5310203

R05

B.Tech III Year I Semester (R05) Supplementary Examinations December/January 2013/14 POWER SYSTEMS - II
(Electrical & Electronics Engineering)
(For 2006 Regular admitted students only)

Time: 3 hours
Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks *****

Max. Marks: 80

1. (a) What are bundled conductors? Discuss the advantages of bundled conductors, when used for overhead lines. (b) A single phase, two wire transmission line 20 km long, is made up of round conductors each 0.9 cm in diameter, separated from each other by 45 cm. Calculate the equivalent diameter of a fictitious hollow, thin-walled conductor having the same inductance as the original line. What is the value of this inductance? 2. (a) Show how regulation and transmission efficiency are determined for medium lines using nominal method and illustrate your answer with suitable vector diagram. (b) An overhead 1-phase delivers a load of 1.5 KW at 33 KV at 0.96 p.f. lagging. The total resistance and inductance of the over head transmission line is 8 and 15 respectively. Determine the following: (i) Percentage of voltage regulation. (ii) Sending end power factor. (iii) Transmission efficiency. 3. (a) Using rigorous method, derive the expressions for sending end voltage and current for a long transmission line. (b) Find the following for a single circuit transmission line delivering a load of 50 MVA at 110 KV and p.f. 0.8 lagging: (i) Sending end voltage. (ii) Sending end current. (iii) Sending end power. (iv) Efficiency of transmission. Given A = D = 0.98 at an angle 3*, B = 100 at an angle 75 ohm, C = 0.005 at an angle 80 Siemen. 4. (a) Starting from first principles show that surges behave as travelling waves. Find expressions for surge impedance and wave velocity. (b) A step wave of 110 KV travels through a line having a surge impedance of 350 . The line is terminated by an inductance of 5000 H. Find the voltage across the inductance and reflected voltage wave. Contd. in page 2

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Code: R5310203

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5. (a) Explain the phenomenon of corona? How can the corona loss be minimized in transmission lines? (b) Determine the disruptive critical voltage and the critical voltages for local and general corona on a 3-phase overhead transmission line, consisting of three stranded copper conductors, spaced 3 meters apart at the corners of an equilateral triangle. Air temperature and pressure are 21 C and 73.5 cm of mercury respectively. Conductor diameter is 2.2 cm. Take air density factor 3.92 b/(273 + t), irregularity factor (m) = 0.82 and surface factors (mv) for local and general corona = 0.7 and 0.8 respectively. Break down strength of air is 21.21 KV (r.m.s) per cm. 6. (a) Write short notes on different types of insulators used for overhead lines and their applications. (b) An insulator string consists of three units, each having a safe working voltage of 15 KV. The ratio of self capacitance to shunt capacitance of each unit is 8:1. Find the maximum safe working voltage of the string. Also find the string efficiency. 7. (a) Explain the necessity of a stringing chart for a transmission line and show how such a chart can be constructed. (b) An overhead line has a span of 250 meters. Find the weight of conductor if the ultimate strength is 5758 kg, sag is 1.5 meters and factor of safety is 2. 8. (a) Show that in a three core belted cable the neutral capacitance to each conductor Cu is equal to Cs + 3Cc where Cs and Cc are capacitance of each conductor to sheath and to each other respectively. (b) Explain intersheath garding.

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