III Sem. B.E.

(E & E)

ELECTRICAL MACHINERY - I
ASSIGNMENT # 02 ASSIGNMENT DATE: 25 10 2013 LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION: 1211 2013

NOTE: Answer the following questions in a long note book only. Submission in sheets will not be accepted

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The open-circuit characteristic of a 4 pole, 250 V dc shunt generator has a lap connected armature with 610 conductors and operates at 750 rpm. Determine (a) critical field circuit resistance (b) critical speed for field circuit resistance of 80 (c) residual flux per pole. If V 0 10 0.5 50 1.0 100 2.0 175 3.0 220 4.0 245 5.0 262

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A 4 pole, DC generator has a lap connected armature consisting of 32 slots with 6 conductors per slot. Determine the useful flux per pole required to generate an emf of 500 volts when the armature is driven at 1200 rpm. A 10 kW, 230 V, 8 pole DC series generator has armature and series field resistances of 0.08 and 0.05 respectively. The flux per pole is 15 mWb. The armature has 250 conductors wave wound conductors. Determine the speed at which the machine is to be driven. Assume a voltage drop of 1.5 volts per brush and neglect the effect of armature reaction. A 6 pole, DC short shunt compound generator supplies a load current of 100 A at a terminal voltage of 400 V. Its armature, shunt and series field resistances are 0.5 , 250 and 0.3 respectively. Its armature consists of 48 slots with 8 conductors per slot wave connected. At this load brushes are to be shifted by 20 mech. to account for armature reaction effect. Calculate the demagnetizing and cross magnetising armature mmf per pole. With a neat sketch, explain the process of commutation in DC generators. Draw connection diagrams of different types of dc motors and explain the speed-torque characteristic of each type of motor. With neat connection diagrams, explain the armature and field flux control methods of DC shunt motor. The torque of a dc shunt motor varies as the cube of the speed. For a certain speed, the armature current is 50 A. Calculate the additional resistance to be connected in series with the armature circuit so as to reduce the speed by 50 % of the original speed. Consider the armature resistance to be 0.4 and flux to remain constant.

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With a neat connection diagram, explain Swinburnes Test for DC shunt motor. A 500 V dc shunt motor takes 8 A on no-load. The armature resistance is 0.2 and shunt field resistance is 250 , when measured at room temperature. Neglecting the increase in resistance due to temperature rise and assuming stray load losses = 1.2 % of power output, determine the motor efficiency when drawing a line current of 80 A at 500 V. With a neat connection diagram, explain Hopkinsons Test. The Hopkinsons test was used to test two shunt motors. The supply current was 15 A at 200 V excluding field currents. The generator output current was 85 A. The field currents for motor and generator were 2.5 A and 3 A respectively. The armature resistance of each machine is 0.05 . Determine the efficiency of each machine.

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10. With a neat connection diagram, explain Retardation Test. What are the methods to eliminate/determine the moment of inertia of rotor? A retardation test is made on a separately excited dc machine operating as a motor. The induced voltage falls from 220 V to 190 V in 30 seconds on opening the armature circuit and 5 seconds on suddenly changing the armature connection from supply to a load resistance taking an average current of 12 A. Determine the efficiency of the machine when operating as a motor and drawing a current of 22 A from a supply of 250 V. The resistance of armature is 0.5 and that of the field winding is 250

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