ECE 333

Renewable Energy Systems

Lecture 4: Three-Phase

Prof. Tom Overbye

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
overbye@illinois.edu
Announcements

• Be reading Chapter 3 from the book

• Quiz today on Homework 1
• Homework 2 is 2.16, 3.5, 3.8, 3.12, 3.13 It will be
covered by the first in-class quiz on Thursday Feb 5

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Reactive Power Compensation

• Reactive compensation is used extensively by

utilities
• Capacitors are used to correct the power factor
• This allows reactive power to be supplied locally
• Supplying reactive power locally leads to decreased
line current, which results in
– Decrease line losses
– Ability to use smaller wires
– Less voltage drop across the line

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 Power Factor Correction Example

• Assume we have a 100 kVA load with pf = 0.8 lagging,

and would like to correct the pf to 0.95 lagging
We have:
1
S  80  j 60 kVA   cos (0.8)  36.9
We want:
desired  cos1 (0.95)  18.2
S Qdes.
Qdes.=? tan(18.2) 
18.2 P
P=80 Qdes.  tan(18.2) * 40  26.3 kVAr
This requires a capacitance of:
P
Q=60 Q=-33.7
Qdes=26.3 Qcap  60  26.3  33.7 kVAr
P 3
Distribution System Capacitors for
Power Factor Correction

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Balanced 3 Phase () Systems

• A balanced 3 phase () system has

• three voltage sources with equal magnitude, but with an
angle shift of 120
• equal loads on each phase
• equal impedance on the lines connecting the generators to
the loads
• Bulk power systems are almost exclusively 3
• Single phase is used primarily only in low voltage,
low power settings, such as residential and some
commercial

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Balanced 3 -- No Neutral Current

I n  I a  Ib  I c
V
In  (10  1   1  
Z
S  Van I an
*
 Vbn I bn
*
 Vcn I cn
*
 3 Van I an
*

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Advantages of 3 Power

• Can transmit more power for same amount of wire

(twice as much as single phase)
• Torque produced by 3 machines is constrant
• Three phase machines use less material for same
power rating
• Three phase machines start more easily than single
phase machines

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Three Phase Transmission Line

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 Three Phase - Wye Connection

• There are two ways to connect 3 systems

• Wye (Y)
• Delta ()

Wye Connection Voltages

Van  V  
Vbn  V   
Vcn  V   

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Wye Connection Line Voltages

Vcn Vab
Vca
-Vbn
Van
Vbn
(α = 0 in this case)
Vbc
Vab  Van  Vbn  V (1  1  120
 3 V   30
Line to line
Vbc  3 V   90 voltages are
Vca  3 V   150 also balanced
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Wye Connection, cont’d

• Define voltage/current across/through device to be

phase voltage/current
• Define voltage/current across/through lines to be
line voltage/current

j
VLine  3 VPhase 130  3 VPhase e 6

I Line  I Phase
S3  3 VPhase I Phase
*

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Delta Connection

For the Delta

phase voltages equal
line voltages

For currents
Ica Ic Ia  I ab  I ca
 3 I ab   
Ib Iab I b  I bc  I ab
Ibc
Ic  I ca  I bc
Ia
S3  *
3 VPhase I Phase
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Three Phase Example

Assume a -connected load is supplied from a 3

13.8 kV (L-L) source with Z = 10020W
a c a
Vab  13.80 kV
b V  13.8 0 kV
bc
c b Vca  13.80 kV

13.80 kV
I ab   138  20 amps
 W
I bc  138  140 amps I ca  1380 amps
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Three Phase Example, cont’d
I a  I ab  I ca  138  20  1380
 239  50 amps
I b  239  170 amps I c  2390 amps

S  3  Vab I ab
*
 3  13.80kV  138 amps
 5.7 MVA
 5.37  j1.95 MVA
pf  cos 20   lagging

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 Delta-Wye Transformation
To simplify analysis of balanced 3 systems:
1) Δ-connected loads can be replaced by
1
Y-connected loads with ZY  Z 
3
2) Δ-connected sources can be replaced by
VLine
Y-connected sources with Vphase 
330

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Per Phase Analysis

• Per phase analysis allows analysis of balanced 3

systems with the same effort as for a single phase
system
• Balanced 3 Theorem: For a balanced 3 system
with
• All loads and sources Y connected
• No mutual Inductance between phases

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Per Phase Analysis, cont’d

• Then
– All neutrals are at the same potential
– All phases are COMPLETELY decoupled
– All system values are the same sequence as sources. The
sequence order we’ve been using (phase b lags phase a
and phase c lags phase a) is known as “positive”
sequence; later in the course we’ll discuss negative and
zero sequence systems.

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Per Phase Analysis Procedure

To do per phase analysis

1. Convert all  load/sources to equivalent Y’s
2. Solve phase “a” independent of the other phases
3. Total system power S = 3 Va Ia*
4. If desired, phase “b” and “c” values can be
determined by inspection (i.e., ±120° degree phase
shifts)
5. If necessary, go back to original circuit to determine
line-line values or internal  values.

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Per Phase Example

Assume a 3, Y-connected generator with Van = 10

volts supplies a -connected load with Z = -jW
through a transmission line with impedance of j0.1W
per phase. The load is also connected to a
-connected generator with Va”b” = 10 through a
second transmission line which also has an impedance
of j0.1W per phase.
Find
1. The load voltage Va’b’
2. The total power supplied by each generator, SY and
S
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Per Phase Example, cont’d

First convert the delta load and source to equivalent

Y values and draw just the "a" phase circuit
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Per Phase Example, cont’d

To solve the circuit, write the KCL equation at a'

1
(Va  10)(10 j )  Va (3 j )  (Va 
' ' '
   j  
3

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 Per Phase Example, cont’d
To solve the circuit, write the KCL equation at a'
1
(Va  10)(10 j )  Va (3 j )  (Va 
' ' '
   j  
3
10
(10 j  60)  Va' (10 j  3 j  10 j )
3
Va'  0.9  volts Vb'  0.9  volts
Vc'  0.9 volts '
Vab  1.56 volts

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 Per Phase Example, cont’d
*
 Va  Va 
'
Sygen  3Va I a*  Va    5.1  j 3.5 VA
 j 0.1 
 ' *
V "
 Va
Sgen  3Va  a
"
  5.1  j 4.7 VA
 j 0.1 

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Brief Coverage of Magnetics

Ampere’s circuital law:

F   H dl  I e
F = mmf = magnetomtive force (amp-turns)
H = magnetic field intensity (amp-turns/meter)
dl = Vector differential path length (meters)
 = Line integral about closed path 
(dl is tangent to path)
Ie = Algebraic sum of current linked by 

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Line Integrals

•Line integrals are a generalization of traditional

integration
Integration along the
x-axis
Integration along a
general path, which
may be closed

Ampere’s law is most useful in cases of symmetry,

such as with an infinitely long line

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Magnetic Flux Density

•Magnetic fields are usually measured in terms of flux

density

B = flux density (Tesla [T] or Gauss [G])

(1T = 10,000G)
For a linear a linear magnetic material
B =  H where  is the called the permeability
 = 0  r
0 = permeability of freespace = 4  10-7 H m
 r = relative permeability  1 for air
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 Magnetic Flux
Total flux passing through a surface A is
 = A B da
da = vector with direction normal to the surface
If flux density B is uniform and perpendicular to an
area A then
 = BA

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Magnetic Fields from Single Wire

•Assume we have an infinitely long wire with current

of 1000A. How much magnetic flux passes through a
1 meter square, located between 4 and 5 meters from
the wire?
Direction of H is given
by the “Right-hand” Rule

Easiest way to solve the problem is to take advantage

of symmetry. For an integration path we’ll choose a
circle with a radius of x.
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 Single Line Example, cont’d
I
2 xH  I  H 
2 x
B  0 H For reference, the earth’s
magnetic field is about
0 I
5
  A 0 H dA  4 dx 0.6 Gauss (Central US)
2 x
I 5 75
  0 ln  2  10 I ln
2 4 4
  4.46  105 Wb
2  104 2
B  T  Gauss
x x
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 Flux linkages and Faraday’s law
Flux linkages are defined from Faraday's law
d
V = where V = voltage,  = flux linkages
dt
The flux linkages tell how much flux is linking an
N turn coil:
N
 = i
i=1

If all flux links every coil then   N

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Inductance

For a linear magnetic system, that is one where

B =H
we can define the inductance, L, to be
the constant relating the current and the flux
linkage
 =Li
where L has units of Henrys (H)

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Inductance Example

Calculate the inductance of an N turn coil wound

tightly on a torodial iron core that has a radius of R
and a cross-sectional area of A. Assume
1) all flux is within the coil
2) all flux links each turn

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Inductance Example, cont’d
Ie   H dl
NI  H 2 R (path length is 2 R)
NI
H  B   H   r 0 H
2 R
  AB   N  LI
NI
  NAB  NAr 0
2 R
N 2 Ar 0
L  H
2 R

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Transformers Overview

• Power systems are characterized by many different

voltage levels, ranging from 765 kV down to
240/120 volts.
• Transformers are used to transfer power between
different voltage levels.
• The ability to inexpensively change voltage levels
is a key advantage of ac systems over dc systems.
• In 333 we just introduce the ideal transformer, with
more details covered in 330 and 476.

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