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Elec Engg Exit Exam 2018 (Part 9)
Elec Engg Exit Exam 2018 (Part 9)
College of Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
Exit Exam
EE Subject
Name:__________________________________
Direction: Solve the following problem and select the best answer.
1. It is desired to measure the insulation resistance between the motor winding and the motor
frame, a 300-volt 30,000 ohm voltmeter in making the measurement. The voltmeter connected
across the source reads 230 volts and when connected in series with the insulation reads 5 volts.
Find the insulation resistance?
2. A wire has a resistance of 1.0 ohm per 1000 ft at diameter of 0.1 inch. Determine the resistance
of a 200 ft long conductor if the diameter is 40 mils.
A. 2.5 C. 1.25
B. 25 D. 12.5
3. Two coils in a network are positioned such that there is 80% coupling between them. If the
inductance of one coil is 12 mH and the other is 6 mH, find the mutual inductance.
A. 0.5 C. 5
B. 0.005 D. 50
5. A coil of 50 ohm resistance and of 150 mH inductance is connected is parallel with a 50 micro-
farad capacitor. The source voltage is 100 sin (ώt +30deg). What is the equation of the line
current?
6. Two current, 5+j2 and 3-j2 enter a junction. What is the out going current?
7. A single phase induction motor is rated 5hp, 75% power factor and 220 volts. What
approximate size of capacitor is necessary to raise the power factor to about 95%?
8. A load of 10,000 KVA, 85% power factor lagging is connected to a 13,200 volt line. How much
reactive power is needed to correct the power factor to 97% lagging?
10. One leg of a radio tuned circuit has a capacitance of one times ten to the minus nine farad. It
is turned at 200 KHz, what is the inductance of the other leg in henry?
11. A balanced delta connected load of 4 – j3 ohms/phase is fed by a 380 V, 3-phase system. Find
the reactive power.
A. 52 kVARS C. 69 kVARS
B. 29 kVARS D. 87 kVARS
12. A balanced three phase wye connected source has using negative phase sequence, Vca =
398 Vrms with 90 degrees angle. Determine Van.
13. A balanced 3-phase wye connected source has using ABC phase sequence, Van = 230 Vrms
with 30 degrees angle. Determine Vbc
14. A 240 V (line to neutral) three-phase source is connected to three 10 ohm resistance loads
with both source and load in the Y-configuration. Determine the current in each phase
A. 22 A C. 24 A
B. 20 A D. 28 A
15. In a balanced three-phase system, the wye-connected impedances connected are 10 ohms
with 30 degrees angle. If Vbc is equal to 416 V with 240 degrees angle, determine Icn. Assume
the phase sequence is abc.
A. 12 + j20.8 A C. 12 – j20.8 A
B. 20.8 – j12 A D. 20.8 + j12 A
A. 40 C. 12.5
B. 25 D. 50
17. A 100 kva, 2300/230 volts 60 Hz 2-winding transformer is used as an autotransformer having a
single winding to step up the
voltage of a 2300 volts line by 10%. If the transformer has 3.3% impedance as 2-winding
transformer, find the % impedance as autotransformer.
A. 0.3 C. 33
B. 0.003 D. 0.033
18. A 500 hp, 2400V, 3-phase motor of 90 percent factor and 95 percent efficiency is to be
operated from a 13.8 kV utility service through a wye-delta connected transformers. Compute the
secondary winding current in ampere of the transformer.
A. 157.3 C. 104.9
B. 125.6 D. 60.6
19. What is the possible synchronous speed in rpm of a 10 pole induction motor used on 60 cycle
line?
A. 1200 C. 720
B. 1800 D. 3600
20. A three phase generator with full load current of 450 at 12,400 volts has 0.08 ohm, resistance
and a synchronous reactance of 2.8 ohms, what is the regulation in percent at 75 percent pow
A 12.8 C. 14.3
B. 18.9 D. 21.5
22. A 500 kva single phase transformer with 5% reactance is to share a load of 750 kva at 80%
pf lagging with a 333 kva single phase transformer with 4% reactance. Calculate the kva delivered
by each transformer.
23. What is the slip in percent of a 6 pole synchronous motor running 1170 rpm?
A. 2.5% C. 2%
B. 3 % D. 0
24. What is the slip in percent of an induction motor running 427 rpm?
A. 2.5% C. 2%
B. 3 % D. 5%
25. An AC generator 1500 kva capacity has a full load efficiency of 91% at 100% power factor and
86% at 80% power factor lagging current. What engine drive in HP is required if the genset is to
supply entirely motor loads?
26. Three 333 kva transformers are delta connected, one connection has been cut, what is the
maximum kva that can be supplied by the remaining transformers?
A. 4.35% C. 4.5%
B. 4.8% D. 5.2%
28. A 250 kVA 20000/240 volts single phase transformer operates at: Full-load ,0.8 p.f. lagging for
11 hours; Half load at unity pf for 8 hours; 25% load at 95% pf leading for the rest of the day
The core loss is 1800 Watts and full load copper loss is 2500 Watts. What is the all–day
efficiency?
A. 97.9% C. 96.2%
B. 98.5% D. 98.7%
29. What should be the turn ratio of a three phase transformer to transform 10 MVA from 230 kv
to 4160 volts if the transformer is connected wye-delta?
A. 31.92 C. 55.29
B. 95.76 D. 21.39
30. A single circuit, three phase 60 Hz transmission line consist of three conductors each of 250
mils in diameter arranged in triangular formation 5m, 5m and 8 m apart. Find the inductive
reactance per km.
A. 46 C. 64
B. 27 D. 59
32. A single phase 10 km transmission line has 16.65 mH total inductance. If the distance between
the conductor is 1.0 m, What is the GMR of conductor?
A. 37 C. 32
B. 40 D. 27
35. A short 3-phase transmission line has an impedance of 8+j11 ohm per phase. The sending
end voltage is 120 kV when supplying a balanced load at 110 kV, 0.9 power factor lagging. What
is the Receiving end power in MW.
A. 110MW C. 43.2MW
B. 142MW D. 81.6MW
36. A three phase, 13 kv transmission line delivers 8 MVA of load. The per phase impedance of
the line is (0.01+j0.05) pu referred to a 13 kv, 8 MVA base. What is the voltage drop across the
line?
A. 3.24+j7.8 C. 3.24+j6.4
B. 3.24+j5.9 D. 3.24+j8.7
39. The capacitance between any two conductor with the third connected to the sheath of a three
phase, 3-conductor cable is 0.2 µF per km. What is total capacitance to neutral for 10km line?
A. 2µF C. 4µF
B. 5µF D. 6µF.
39. At a certain location in an electric system, the available fault MVA is 400 MVA. A 15 MVA,
34.5 kV/6.24kV, 2.5% impedance, wye-wye grounded transformer is installed at that location.
Determine the short circuit MVA at the secondary .
A. 195 MVA C. 90 MVA
B. 150 MVA D. 240 MVA
40. There was a phase to phase fault at 13.8 kV system where the Thevenin’s equivalent
impedance is 2.63% what is the magnitude of the fault current. Base MVA is 10.
A. C.
B. D.
46. The breakdown voltage for paper capacitors is usually
A. henry C. weber
C. ampere-turn/weber D. ampere/meter
53. Permeability in a magnetic circuit corresponds to ___ in an electric circuit.
A. resistance C. resistivity
B. conductivity D. conductance
54. The initial rate of rise of current through a coil of inductance 10 H when suddenly connected to
a DC supply of 200 V is ___ A/s
A. 50 C. 20
B. 0.05 D. 500
55. The property of a material which opposes the creation of magnetic flux in it is known as
A. reluctivity C. permeance
B. magneto motive force D. reluctance
56. Laminated cores, in electrical machines, are used to reduce
A. C.
B. D.
59. The self inductances of two coils are 8 mH and 18 mH. If the co-efficient of coupling is 0.5, the
mutual inductance of the coil is
A. 4 mH C. 5 mH
B. 6 mH D. 12 Mh
60. A 500 turns solenoid develops an average induced voltage of 60 V. Over what time interval
must a flux change of 0.06 Wb occur to produce such a voltage?
A. 0.01 s C. 0.1 s
B. 0.5 s D. 5 s
61. A conductor carries 125 amperes of current under 60° to a magnetic field of 1.1 tesla. The
force on the conductor will be nearly
A. Newton’s law
B. Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction
C. Faraday’s law of electrolysis
D. Gauss’s law
63. The specific gravity of electrolyte is measured by
A. amperes C. ampere-hours
B. watts D. watt-hours
65. Five 2 V cells are connected in parallel. The output voltage is
A. 10 V C. 1.5 V
B. 1.75V D. 2 V
66. The storage battery generally used in electric power station is
A. C.
B. D.
68. The peak value of a sine wave is 200 V. Its average value is
A. 127. 4 V C. 141.4 V
B. 282.8 V D. 200 V
69. The power consumed in a circuit element will be least when the phase difference between the
current and voltage is
A. 180° C. 90°
B. 60° D. 0°
70. The rms value and mean value is the same in the case of
A. 0.05 s C. 0.005 s
B. 0.0005 s D. 0.5 s
72. Lamination of core are generally made of
A. speed C. load
B. voltage D. speed and voltage
76. Brushes of DC machines are made of
A. carbon C. soft copper
B. hard copper D. all of above
77. No-load speed of which of the following motor will be highest?
A. 2 poles C. 4 poles
B. 6 poles D. 8 poles
80. The mechanical power developed by a shunt motor will be maximum when the ratio of back
emf to applied voltage is
A. 4.0 C. 2.0
B. 1.0 D. 0.5
81. The speed of a motor falls from 1100 rpm at no-load to 1050 rpm at rated load. The speed
regulation of the motor is
A. 4.54% C. 4.76%
B. 6.77% D. 8.84%
82. The no-load current drawn by transformer is usually what per cent of the full-load current?
A. 1 kV C. 33 kV
B. 100 kV D. 330 Kv
84. Which of the following is not a part of transformer installation?
A. conservator C. breather
B. Buchholz relay D. exciter
85. A common method of cooling a power transformer is
A. 2 C. 12
B. 4 D. 50
89. In huge alternators, the moving part is
A. Stator C. Armature
B. Poles D. Rotor