EE1102 - Basic Electrical Engineering Quiz 3: DC Machines

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Scan / click for YouTube playlist on DC Machines. A. 78.108 %

B. 94.900 %

C. 79.318 %

D. 80.988 %

4. A 8 pole DC generator has 20 armature conductors,

and flux of 26 mWb per pole. What is emf generator
if it is lap conected running at 860 rpm?
1 DC Machines A. 7.453 V

1. A DC shunt generator delivers 420 A at 230 V. The ar- B. 16.453 V

mature and shunt winding resistances are 0.05 Ω and C. 7.081 V
60 Ω respectively. Determine the EMF generated.
D. 14.453 V
A. 251.000 V
5. A DC shunt generator delivers 60 kW at 220 V and
B. 251.192 V
330 rpm. The armature and field resistance are 0.02 Ω
C. 208.808 V and 50 Ω respectively. The speed of the machine when
D. 243.656 V running as a shunt motor and taking 60 kW input at
220 V will be
2. A separately excited generator when running at 1190
A. 314.038 rpm
rpm supplieS 60 A to a resistive load at 90 V. What
will be the load current when the speed drops to 490 B. 339.038 rpm

rpm, if field current is unchanged. Given armature re- C. 321.338 rpm

sistance is 0.3 Ω. D. 329.838 rpm
A. 24.706 A
6. A long shunt compound DC generator delivers a load
B. 27.106 A of 400 A at 240 V. The armature, series and shunt
C. 23.706 A winding resistances are 0.075 Ω, 0.042 Ω and 60 Ω re-
spectively. Determine the EMF generated. Allow a
D. 29.706 A
brush contact drop of 1 V per brush.
3. A 9 kW, 230 V, DC shunt motor with an armature
A. 287.268 V
resistance of 0.75 Ω and field resistance 295 Ω takes
B. 286.800 V
3.8 A, when running light at rated voltage and rated
speed. What is machine efficiency as motor with input C. 298.268 V

of 9 kW at rated speed and voltage. D. 278.650 V

7. A 260 V series motor has an armature resistance of D. 0.105 Wb/m2
0.45 Ω and series field resistance of 0.1 Ω. Calculate
11. A 4 pole DC generator, having wave wound armature
the current required to develop a torque of 75 Nm at
winding has 40 slots, and 30 conductors per slot. Flux
1140 rpm.
per pole is 13 mWb. What is the emf generated when
A. 45 A motor is driven at 840 rpm.
B. 41 A A. 432.400 V
C. 37 A B. 436.800 V
D. 32 A C. 476.112 V

8. A DC generator has armature induced emf of 210 V D. 443.300 V

when flux per pole is 12 mWb, and speed is 1190 rpm. 12. A 3 kW, 210 V DC shunt motor has armature resis-
Calculate the emf generated when speed is 1200 rpm tance of 0.9 Ω and shunt field resistance 90 Ω. At no
but flux per pole is 20 mWb. load, the motor draws 6 A from 210 V supply and runs
A. 352.941 V at 880 rpm. The rotational loss of the machine is

B. 347.541 V A. 8.229 W

C. 384.706 V B. 9.979 W

D. 474.706 V C. 15.969 W

9. A belt driven DC shunt generator runs at 1420 rpm
delivering 7 kW, at 235 V bus. The belt breaks follow-
ing which the machine operates as a motor drawing 1
kW power. The armature and field resistance are 0.24
Ω and 52 Ω respectively. The speed when working as
a motor will be
A. 1097.30 rpm
B. 1546.30 rpm
D. 11.749 W
13. A break test is conducted on a DC motor. The spring
balance reading are 3 kg and 26 kg. The diameter of
drum is 40 cm. The speed of the motor under these
loading is 930 rpm, when supplied at 240 V, taking
current of 35 A from the mains. Find efficiency.
A. 44.854 %
B. 51.404 %

C. 1262.30 rpm C. 51.084 %

D. 1372.30 rpm D. 52.304 %

10. A 2 pole DC generator has induced emf of 230 V
when driven at a speed of 150 rpm.The armature is
lap wound and has 35 conductors. The armature re-
sistance is 0.9 Ω. The pole shoe has diameter of 26
cm, each pole substends an angle of 55 degrees at the
center. The length of pole is 20 cm. Determine the
flux density in the air gap.
A. 0.675 Wb/m2
B. 0.405 Wb/m2
14. A 2 pole wave wound motor armature has 505 conduc-
tors and delivers 130 A. The brushes have been dis-
placed through 1.0 angular degrees from geometrical
axis. Find additional field current for neutralising de-
magnetising effect if there are 1480 turns in shunt field
winding.
A. 0.412 A
B. 0.062 A
C. 0.057 A

C. 0.400 Wb/m2 D. 0.041 A

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15. A 18.0 kW, 420 V, 6 pole wave wound DC shunt motor A. 145 W
has 504 armature conductors and 110 commutator seg-
B. 144 W
ments. Its full load efficiency is 75.0 % and the shunt
field current is 1.5 A. If the brushes are shifted back- C. 137 W

ward by 1.65 segments from geometrically neutral axis. D. 575 W

Find the demagnetising ampere turns per pole.
19. A separately excited DC motor has an armature re-
A. 169.530 AT/pole
sistance of 0.6 Ω. It runs from a 235 V DC supply
B. 150.386 AT/pole
drawing an armature current 21 A at 1310 rpm. For
C. 215.090 AT/pole
the same field current, the torque developed (in Nm)
D. 210.330 AT/pole for an armature current 12 A will be
16. A 220 V DC shunt motor takes 3 A at no load. It A. 19.46 Nm
draws 28 A when running at full load at 1460 rpm.
B. 18.58 Nm
The armature and shunt resistance are 0.52 Ω and 205
Ω, respectively. The no load speed in rpm is C. 23.94 Nm

A. 1552.14 rpm D. 17.68 Nm

B. 1589.74 rpm
20. A 27.5 kW, 440 V, 6 pole wave wound DC shunt mo-
C. 1465.64 rpm
tor has 995 armature conductors and 120 commutator
D. 1540.54 rpm
segments. Its full load efficiency is 80.0 % and the
17. A 480 V DC shunt motor draws a line current of 8 A, shunt field current is 1.0 A. If the brushes are shifted
on no load. If armature resistanc is 0.4 Ω and field backward 1.1 segment from geometrically neutral axis.
resistance is 140 Ω, determine the efficiency of the ma- Find the distorting ampere turns per pole.
chine running as a generator delivering a load current
A. 114651 AT/pole
of 30 A at 480 V.
B. 113802 AT/pole
A. 78.241 %
B. 79.141 % C. 115111 AT/pole

C. 74.000 % D. 114757 AT/pole

D. 85.000 %

18. A 5 kW 450 V short shunt compound DC generator Scan / click the QR code to submit your answers.

has a full load efficiency of 80.2 %. If the resistance

of armature and interpole is 0.3 Ω and that of series
and shunt winding are 0.3 Ω and 160 Ω respectively.
Calculate the combined bearing friction loss, windage
and core losses of the machine.

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