King Fahd University Of Petroleum & Minerals

Department of Electrical Engineering

EE-306 ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES
Semester (151)
Homework-1: Three-Phase Electrical Circuits

Due Date: Monday September 14, 2015

Problem #1:

per phase is

A balanced 3-phase delta-connected load of impedance

connected to a three-phase supply of

, phase sequence is

Determine:
The phase and line values of current.
Total real power and reactive volt-ampere, and
The phase angle of line current

with respect to line voltage

, drawing a

sketch of the relevant phasors.

Problem #2:
A balanced three-phase star connected load of

of

, when connected across 3-phase,

takes a leading current

supply. Find the

value of resistance/phase and capacitance/phase of load and power factor of

load. If the same load is connected in delta, calculate power consumed.
Problem #3:

A balanced Y-connected three phase supply feeds two balanced three-phase

loads that are connected in parallel through a transmission line having a per
phase impedance of

. The first load is Y-connected and has an

impedance of
has an impedance of

per phase. The second load is -connected and

per phase. The line is energized at the

sending end from a three-phase balanced supply of line voltage

Taking the phase voltage at sending end as reference Phasor, determine:

(a) The current, real power and reactive power drawn from the supply.
(b) The line voltage at the combined loads.
(c) The current per phase in each load.
(d) The total real and reactive powers in each load and the line.
Problem # 4:
Part-1:
Prove that the line voltage of a Y-connected generator with an acb phase sequence
lags the corresponding phase voltage by 300. Draw a phasor diagram showing the
phase and line voltages for this generator.

Part-2:
A three-phase power system consists of a -connected generator producing a

line voltage of 480 V. The generator feeds two loads in parallel by means of
three transmission lines having an impedance of

per phase.

The load 1 is Y-connected, with a phase impedance of

load 2 is -connected, with a phase impedance of

and
.

(a) Draw 3-phase diagram for the above power system.

(b) Deduce and draw single line-diagram for the power system.