1.

Mention the general application of High Voltage

Speed control of Motor

Satellite Communication

Automobile Industry

Particle Accelerators

2. In Power System, Big Consumers are connected to

Generating Station

Receiving Station

Secondary Substation

Service Mains

3. Name the 765 kV EHVAC line operational in India

Dehar - Panipat line

Agra - Gwalior

Srinagar - Jammu

Rihand - Delhi

4. Mention the Disadvantages of HVDC transmission

Absence of Skin effect

Dielectric loss is less

Fault clearing time is small

No transformers

5. Name the option which are not the causes of overvoltage in a power system?

Lightning

Eddy Currents

Switching Surges

Power Frequency oscillations

6. What is the Potential of the cloud?

10000 V

10000000 V

100 kV

2 * 10^5 kV

7. As per Simpson's Theory, Region C consists of

Ice Crystals

Positively Charged Particles

Negatively Charged Particles

Vacuum

8. Choose the breakdown value of ionized air

100 kV/cm

10 kV/cm

2800 kV/ m

10 kV/m

9. What is called Return stroke?

An electric streamer with plasma of light

Negative Charges reaching the earth from cloud

Positive Charges reaching the earth from cloud

Positive charges reaching the cloud from earth

10. Mention the total time required for stepped leader to reach the ground.

10 ms

20 ms

30 ms

40 ms

11. What is Isokeraunic level?

Number of Days in a month when rain is recorded in particular location

Number of Strokes in a year when rain is recorded in particular location

Number of Days in a year when thunder is recorded in particular location

Number of weeks in a year when thunder is recorded in particular location

12. Cloud discharges 25 coulombs within 2.5 milliseconds on to a transmission line during
lightning. Estimate the voltage produced at the point of the stroke on the transmission line. Assume
Z=400Ω .

2000 kV

1000 kV

4000 kV

3500 kV

13. Mention the control measures due to switching surges.

Phase controlled closing of CB with proper sensors

Using series compensators

Drain the trapped charges before restriking

Inserting inductors

14. An overhead line has inductance of 1.26 mH/km and capacitance of 0.009µF/km. Calculate the
voltage developed when lightning strikes transmission line injecting a current of 15kA.

5612.5 kV

2560.3 kV

100kV

4839.65 kV

15. What is called Protection angle or shielding angle?

The angle between the horizontal line drawn through the vertical of tower and a line through the
ground wire and the shielded conductor

The angle between the vertical line drawn through the vertical of tower and a line through the
ground wire and the shielded conductor

The angle between the horizontal line drawn through the horizontal of tower and a line through the
ground wire and the shielded conductor
The angle between the vertical line drawn through the horizontal of tower and a line through the
ground wire and the shielded conductor

16. Effective protection of ground wires depends on

No. of Insulator disc and sheilding angle of 45 deg

Thickness of the Ground wire and shielding angle of 30 deg

Height of the Ground wire and shielding angle of 30 deg

No. of ground wires and shielding angle of 45 deg

17. How to vary the tower footing resistance?

Varying the diameter of the Ground rods

Varying the distance between the tower footings

Varying the depth of the ground rods

Varying the materials used in ground rods.

18. Mention the option which are not the advantages of the rod gap

Simple construction

It can prevent power frequency follow up current

Cheap

Rugged Construction

19. Expulsion type lightning arresters main advantage is

Used in Explosive environments

Used in Power stations

Used in Tall rise buildings

Used in Circuit Breakers

20. Non - linear resistors possess

high resistance to high currents and low resistance to low currents

low resistance to low voltages and high resistance to high voltages

low resistance to high currents and high resistance to low currents

low resistance to high voltages and high resistance to low voltages

21. Mention the property which is not the property of Bewley lattice diagram/

All waves travel downhill

History of the wave is not traced correctly

The position of any wave at a any time can be deduced

Attenuation is included in the wave arriving at the far end of the line.

22. Mention the relation between reflection and refraction coefficients.

a*b=1

a + b =1

1+a=b

1 - a = -b

23. A transmission line of surge impedance 250 Ω and is connected to a cable of surge impedance
50 Ω at the other end, if a surge of 400 kV travels along the line to the junction point, find the
voltage build at the junction.

330.67 kV

266.67 kV

426.67 kV

666.67 kV

24. Two point of discontinuities P and Q have attenuation factor 0.6 and 0.7 respectively. Z1 =100Ω,
Z2=200Ω and Z3=300Ω. Find the Reflection coefficient a1 and Refraction coefficient b1respectively
at the P discontinuity.

0.33 and 1.33

66.667 and 67.667

1.33 and 0.33

67.667 and 66.667

25. Find the reflection coefficient when z1=Z and Z2= infinity

2
3

26. Mention the gas given below which is used as a dielectric

Carbon monoxide

Hydro fluoro carbon

Di chloro Di Fluoro methane

Hydrogen

27. Mention the false statement:

The gaseous dielectric must be chemically stable

The gaseous dielectric must have large breakdown strength

The gaseous dielectric must possess inertness property

The gaseous dielectric must have good smell

28. Secondary electrons are not produced by this mechanism

Photon emission process

Positive ions

electron avalanches

meta stable particles

29. Which is the correct criterion for breakdown in townsend's ionization process.

γ * exp (α ds) = 1

γ * exp (α ds) - γ = 1

γ * exp (α ds) = γ

γ * exp (α ds) = 1 - γ

30. What are electronegative gases?

Contains equal no. of protons and electrons

Contains loosely bound electrons in the outermost shell

No . of Neutrons is more
Contains electron - hole pair more in number.

31.Paschen's law is showing the relationship between

Voltage and Current

Power and Voltage

Voltage and to the product of pressure and distance

Product of Voltage and Pressure

32. Mention the wrong one about corona discharges.

Faint violet glow

social distancing

Hissing noise

Ozone gas production

33. Mention the colour of the corona glow in positive polarity

Reddish White

Yellowish White

Greenish White

Bluish White

34. What are Trichel Pulses?

Repetition frequency increases with current

Repetition frequency increases with voltage

Repetition frequency increases with electric field

Repetition frequency increases with gap length

35. When breakdown is preceded by corona in positive plane?

Region 1

Region 2

Region 3

Region 4
36. Which type of supply has high breakdown strength in SF6 gas?

Positive DC supply

50 Hz AC supply

Positive DC Corona

50 Hz AC Corona

37. Mention the wrong one in the applications of Vacuum insulators

Interrupters and contactors

PLC Apparatus

Relays and Circuit Breakers

Microwave Tubes

38. Mention the condition for breakdown given by Trump and Vande Graff.

AB +CD > 1

AB +DE >1

AB + EF >1

AB + FG> 1

39. What is the cause of explosion in cathode heating mechanism?

Capacitive heating at the cathode

Resistive heating at the tip of the projections due to pre- breakdown current

Inductive heating at the tip the projections due to pre- breakdown current

Collision between the electron and a gas molecule.

40. Mention the criterion for breakdown due to vacuum.

V2 = C' d

V3 = C' d

V = C' d

V4 = C' d