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Q. 1

A 220 V, dc shunt motor takes no load armature current of 3 A and runs at 1500 rpm. If the full load armature current is 45 A then what is
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B 1326 rpm

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D 1345 rpm
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Q. 2

Interpoles in a DC motor must be:

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A Series excited and should have polarity opposite to that of the next main pole in the direction of rotation Correct Option
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Interpoles are placed to aid the commutating process by inducing emf in commutating coils to cancel reactance emf. So interpoles are
located in the interpolar region along MNA of main pole and connected in series to field winding and should have polarity opposite to
that of the next main pole in the direction of rotation of armature.

B Series excited and should have same polarity as that of the next main pole in the direction of rotation of
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C Shunt excited and should have polarity opposite to that of the next main pole in the direction of rotation
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D Shunt excited and should have the same polarity as the next main pole in the direction of rotation of
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Q. 3

The synchronizing coefficient (in kW per mechanical degree) at full load for a 1000 kVA, 0.8 p.f. (lagging), 6.6 kV, 8-pole, star connected
cylindrical rotor generator of negligible resistance and synchronous reactance of 0.8 p.u. is
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A 240 V, 12 kW dc shunt generator has 1200 turns on each pole. At rated speed, a shunt field current of a 3 A produces a no load voltage of
240 V, but at rated load, a voltage of 240 V is produced by a field current of 3.3 A. The number of series field turns per pole required for long
shunt connection, if it is made possible to maintain the load voltage constant without changing field current, is,
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Which one fo the following statements is correct for equalizer rings in a lap wound DC machine?
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Equalizer rings in a lap wound DC machine is used to prevent the flow of circulating current through brushes, armature winding and
brushes. Also equalizer rings connect points behind lap windings which are 360° (electrical) apart.

D Equalizer rings connect points behind lap windings which are 180° (electrical) apart.

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Q. 6

In braking of DC motor by plugging the armature is ________ across the mains and a limiting resistor is connected in ________ in which
Kinetic energy of the moving system is dissipated.
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In plugging, the Kinetic energy stored in armature during braking is dissipated across limiting resistor by connecting it in series hence
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The following SC test result were obtained for a 20 kVA, 50 Hz, 2400 V/240 V transformer;
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What will be the power factor of the load, supplied at 240 V, such that terminal voltage observed on reducing the load to zero is still 240 V?
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A single phase transformer is designed to operate at 440 V/110 V, 50 Hz. If the high voltage side is connected to 300 V, 40 Hz supply, then
the low voltage side voltage and frequency will be
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A 220 V d.c. series motor develops its rated output at 1500 rpm while taking 25 A. Armature and series field resistance are 0.4 and 0.6 Ω
respectively. To obtain rated torque at 1200 rpm the external resistance added to armature is,
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C 1.72 Ω

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An alternator supplying a 600 kW load at 0.75 power factor lagging has its power factor raised to unity by means of over exited synchronous
motor. At a constant armature current the reactive power supplied by the motor and the power factor of operation are respectively.
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An iron ring of mean length 60 cm has an air gap of 1 mm and a winding of 250 turns. If the permeability of iron is 400 and when a current
of 1 A flows through the coil, the flux density is _______ × 10–3 Wb/m2.
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of full load torque. Assume the slip at full load to be 4% and the short circuit current to be 5 (five) times full load current. Ignore magnetizing
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An 8-pole, 3-Φ, induction motor runs at a speed of 710 rpm with an input power of 35 kW. The stator copper loss at this operating condition
is 1000 W while the rotational losses are 500 W. The electromagnetic torque developed is _________ N-m.
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A 6 pole, 50 Hz, 3-Φ induction motor has blocked rotor reactance per phase equal to four times to the rotor resistance per phase. The speed
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at which maximum torque developed is ________ rpm.
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A 40 kW, 415 V, 3-Φ synchronous motor is operating at full load with efficiency of 90%. If the field current is adjusted to make its power
factor 0.75 leading, the armature current will be _______ A.
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A, 3-Φ salient pole alternator has direct axis reactance as 0.5 p.u. and quadrature axis reactance as 0.25 p.u., when its terminal voltage is
1.0 p.u. and excitation voltage is 1.12 p.u. To deliver maximum power, the rotor angle should be,
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D 72.56°

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For this condition what a voltmeter would read if connected across the load terminals. Assume the exciting current to be zero.
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The full load current of a 3.3 kV, star connected synchronous motor is 160 A at 0.8 p.f. lagging. The resistance and synchronous reactance
of motor are 0.8 Ω and 5.5 Ω per phase respectively. The mechanical stray load loss to be 30kW. The efficiency of the motor at full load is
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Q. 20

Two 1-Φ transformers having the same voltage ratio on no-load operate in parallel to supply a load of 1500 kVA at 0.8 p.f. lagging. One
transformer is rated at 700 kVA and has a per unit equivalent impedance of (0.01 + j 0.06) the other is rated at 800 kVA and has per unit
impedance of (0.01 + j 0.05). The load shared by each transformer is respectively:
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A 538.6 kVA, 961.4 kVA

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Q. 21

Two three-phase alternators operate in parallel. The rating of one machine is 80 MW and that of other is 150 MW. Both alternators are fitted
with governors having a droop of 4%.
How will the machines share a common load of 150 MW?
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D Machine - 1 shares 53.17 MW and machine - 2 shares 96.83 MW load

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A round rotor generator with internal voltage E1  = 1.5 p.u. and Xs  = 0.8 p.u. is connected to a round rotor synchronous motor with internal
voltage E2 = 1.1 p.u. and X2  = 0.7 p.u.
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between the two machines will be
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A 60 kW synchronous motor is tested by driving it by another motor. When the excitation is not switched ON, the driving motor takes 900 W.
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When the armature is short circuited and rated current of 12 A is passed through it, the driving motor takes 3000 W. On open circuiting the
armature with rated excitation, the driving motor takes 2000 W. Neglecting the losses in the driving motor, what will be the efficiency of the
synchronous motor at 50% load?
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connected to the same supply source as the motor. The armature of generator is connected to a resistive load. The armature resistance of
both machines is 0.015 p.u. Armature reaction and mechanical losses can be neglected. With rated voltage across the motor, the load
resistance across the generator is adjusted to obtain rated armature current in both motor and generator. The p.u. value of the resistive load
is
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The power input to a 3-Φ induction motor is 50 kW. Total stator losses are 900 W. The total mechanical power developed and the rotor
copper loss per phase, if the motor is running with a slip of 4% are respectively;
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A 4-pole, 50 Hz, 3-Φ induction motor has a rotor resistance of 4.5 Ω/phase and a standstill rotor reactance of 8.5 Ω/phase. Stator resistance
and reactance are neglected. The starting torque of the motor is 85 Nm with no external resistance connected in rotor circuit. What is the
rotor voltage (phase) at standstill?
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current in the main and auxiliary windings will be _________ μF.
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In a dc motor running at 1800 rpm, the hysteresis and eddy current losses are 400 W and 180 W respectively. If the flux remain constant, the
speed at which the total iron losses are halved is _______ rpm.
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A 1-Φ , 50 Hz, three winding transformer is rated at 2200 V on the HV side with a total of 250 turns. Of the two secondary windings, each can
handle 220 kVA. One winding is rated at 550 V and the other is at 220 V. The primary current (rms) will be _________ A. When the rated
current in the 220 V winding at upf and the rated current in 550 V winding is 0.6 p.f. lagging. Neglect all leakage impedance drops and
magnetizing current.
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A 4-pole, 3-Φ , 400 V, 50 Hz induction motor has following parameter for its circuit model (referred to stator side on equivalent - star basis)

for a speed of 1440 rpm, the input current to the motor is _________ A.
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Two star-connected generators are connected in parallel and supply a balanced load of 1500 kVA at 11 kV line voltage and 0.8 lagging
power factor. The synchronous reactance of two machines are 35 Ω and 40 Ω respectively. The prime mover governors of two machines are
adjusted so as to equally share the load. The phase current in one machine is 43 A, at a lagging power factor. The phase current (rms) in the
second machine is ________ A.
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current at 0.8 leading p.f. is _____ kV.
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The generator is supplying full load at 0.8 lagging p.f. at 1.0 p.u. terminal voltage. ________ p.u. will be the no load voltage if the excitation
remains unchanged?
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