ECTE426/926 Power Equipment Design

Tutorial Week 4

1. Shown in Figure 1 are the areas normally served by two feeders

Under an emergency condition, the switch at b is closed so that the feeder

normally serving the triangle area must now serve both areas. Assume both
areas have a uniform load density of 3 MVA/square km, and 0.9 lagging power
factor. The primary feeder voltage is 11 kV. Laterals are uniformly tapped off of
the primary main from S to a, No loads are tapped off the feed from a to b to c,
and laterals are tapped off from c to d and from c to S’. The primary main
conductors are 266800 18/1 ACSR and are and are configured on a 2.5m cross-
arm with phase spacing of Dab = 0.75 m, Dbc =1.4 m and Dca = 2.15 m..

a) Determine the Kdrop and the Krise factors

b) Determine the voltage drops to point d.
c) Determine the three-phase kVAr rating of a shunt capacitor bank placed at c
in order to limit the voltage drop to point d to 3.0%
d) Determine the voltage drop to e with the capacitor bank at c.
e) Determine the voltage drop to e with source at S’ and the capacitor at c.