Electrical Machines Tutorial Sheet #5 (2024)

1. a) A three phase, 16 pole synchronous generator has a star connected winding with 144 slots and
10 conductors per slot. The coils are full pitched. The flux per pole is 0.03 Wb, sine distributed. The
rotational speed is 375 RPM. Find RMS induce phase and line voltages and also the frequency of the
induced voltage.
b) A three phase 10 pole star connected alternator runs at 600 RPM. It has 120 stator slots
with 8 conductors per slot. The conductors of each phase are series connected forming full pitch
coils. The flux per pole is 56 mWb. Determine the phase and line induced voltages. What harmonics
due to the slots may appear in the phase and line induced voltages?

2. A 3 phase 8 pole 50 Hz synchronous generator is designed such that the ratio of the fundamental
RMS phase induced voltage to the fundamental flux per pole (in mWb) is 48.5. The third harmonic
induced phase voltage is 25% of the fundamental induced phase voltage while the third harmonic
flux per pole is 19.93% of the fundamental flux per pole. The stator phase winding coils are short
corded to eliminate the fifth harmonic induced phase voltage. The phase spread of the stator coils is
600 (electrical). Find out
(a) The coil span of the stator coils in degrees (electrical).
(b) Total number of slots in the machines
(c) The number of conductors per slot

3. A 2 pole 3 phase synchronous machine (working as a motor) has the following mechanical
dimensions and winding particulars. Air gap length = 1.3mm, mean air gap diameter = 22 cm, axial
length = 41 cm, Total field series turns = 880, rotor winding factor = 0.965, stator slots / pole / phase
= 3, stator conductors / slot = 12. Field current = 4 A, peak air gap flux density = 1.35T, Find the
following
a. Peak rotor ampere-turns.
b. Torque and Power developed (Tdev, Pdev) as functions of the rotor angle (δ).
c. Maximum values of Tdev and Pdev.

4. A 460-V, 50-kW, 60-Hz, three-phase synchronous motor has a synchronous reactance of Xs =

4.15 Ω and negligible stator resistance. The motor is operating at rated terminal voltage and an input
power of 40 kW. Calculate the magnitude and phase angle of the line-to neutral generated voltage
Eaf when the motor is operating at (i) 0.85 power factor lagging, (ii) unity power factor, and (iii)
0.85 power factor leading.
5. Consider a two-pole, 60-Hz, 13.8-kV, 10-MVA synchronous generator which achieves rated open-
circuit armature voltage at a field current of 842 A. It achieves rated armature current into a three-
phase terminal short circuit for a field current of 226 A.
a. Calculate the per-unit synchronous reactance.
Consider the situation in which this generator is connected to a 13.8 kV distribution feeder of
negligible impedance and operating at an output power of 8.75 MW at 0.9 pf lagging.
Neglect armature resistance. Calculate:
b. the reactive-power output in MVA, and the rotor angle for this operating condition.
c. the rotor angle and reactive-power output in MVA if the field current is reduced to 842 A
while the shaft-power supplied by the prime mover to the generator remains constant.

6. A three phase 2.5 MVA, 6.6 kV synchronous generator gave the following data for OCC at the
synchronous speed.
If (A) 16 20 25 32 45
Voc (L-L, V) 4400 5500 6600 7700 8800

With the armature short circuited and full load current flowing, the field current is 18 A. When the
machine is supplying full load current at zero pf at the rated voltage, the field current required is 45
A. Determine the leakage reactance per phase of the machine in Ω and the full load armature reaction
in terms of equivalent field amperes. Also find the field current and voltage regulation when the
machine is supplying full load at 0.8 pf lagging at the rated voltage. Neglect armature resistance.