SREENARAYANA GURUKULAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING MODEL EXAMINATION

Fourth Semester Electrical&Electronics Engineering

ELECTRICAL MACHINES 1 E404
MaxMarks:100

Time:3Hrs
PART A(Answer all questions)

1.What are the effects of armature reaction?

2.Explain the use of equiliser connections in lap winding
3.What is the need of starter in a dc motor?
4.Draw the performance curves of dc shunt motors.
5.Explain the terms- field critical resistance ,critical speed.
6.Explain the voltage buitd up in dc generator
7.Derive the emf equation of a transformer.
8.Briefly explain the sumpners test for transformers.
9.What are the merits of open delta connection?
10.What are the methods of cooling the transformers.
(4*10=40marks)
PART B
(Each question carries 12 marks)
11a) Define commutation?Explain the methods to improve it.
b)A 8 pole lap wound dc generator has 960 conductors, a flux of 40mWb and a speed of 400 rpm
Calculate the emf generated on open circuit.
OR
12)Explain the construction of dc machine with neat diagram.State the material used for each part.
13a)Explain the voltage build up in dc generator.
b)The OCC OS A dc shunt generator is given below Find the critical speed and field critical resistance
EMF

20

35 46

52 79

98

CURRENT

0.1 0.2

0.3

0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7

OR

14a)A short shunt compound generator supplies a current of 100A at a voltage of 220V.The resistance of
shunt, series and armature windings have resistances 50 ohm,0.2ohm and .05 ohm.The iron and friction
losses are 500 W. Find 1.Copper losses 2.o/p of prime mover
b)What are the losses in a dc machine.
15.Explain the performance characteristics of dc series motors.
OR
16a)A series motor having 0.5 ohm resistance when running at certain speed takes 60A at 500V.If the
load torque varies as the cube of speed calculate the resistance required to reduce the speed by 20%?
17a)Explain the principles of ideal transformer
b)The open circuit and short circuit tests are conducted on a 5 kva 220/400V transformer gave the
following test results
OC TEST 220V 2A
SC TEST 40V

100W (LV SIDE)

11.4A 200 W(HV SIDE)

Determine the efficiency and voltage regulation at full load 0.9 pf lag
OR
18.Derive the approximate expression for voltage regulation for single phase Transformers.
b)A single phase transformer working at upf has an efficiency of 90%at both half load and full loadof
500 W.Determine the efficiency at 75%full load and max.efficiency

19)Explain the classification of 3 phase transformers

OR
y20.a)Show the saving of copper in auto transformer.

b)Two single phase transformers working at 100 V are connected to a 3300V 3phase supply through
scott connected transformers. Determine the currents in 3 lines when the power taken by each furnace
is 500 Kw at 0.8 pf lag.

(5*12=60marks)

ANSWER KEY PART B

11b)Ans.256V,156.25rpm
14a)Ans. Cu losses=1785.6W, O/P OF PRIME MOVER= 24785.6w
16a)T2/T1 =(N2/N1)2
T2/T1 =(N2/N1)3
On solving Ia=38.9A
E2/E1 =N2 f2/N1f1 Where f is the flux.
Sub Ia on above equation R=6.455 Ohm
17b)Voltage regulation=8.62% efficiency=92.96%
18b)Efficiency at 75% FL=90.5%
Max.efficiency=990.53%
19)y-y,d-d,y-d,d-y,v-v&T-T.
20a)derivation Saving=k *cu in 2 winding transformer
20b)Line currents=218.7A