Department of Electrical Engineering

Power System I (EEE 5003)

Course: B. Tech. EE/EN 3rd Year
Assignment No.: 1

Semester: 5

1. List any five transmission line conductor manufacturers in India. Also give the details
(like name, rating, etc) of any five conductors manufactured by them.
2. Apply Kelvins law to determine the economic cross-section for the conductor of a 3phase 10 km long 33 kV overhead line. The line supplies a load of 4 MW at 0.8 pf 10
hours a day, 2 MW at 0.8 pf for 6 hours a day and 1 MW at 0.8 pf for 8 hours a day. The
line is used for all the 365 days in the year. The line cost can be taken as Rs (85000 +
2000a) per km length where a is the area of cross-section in mm 2. The resistance of
aluminum conductor of length 1 m and area 1 mm 2 is 0.0286 ohms. Energy cost is Rs
0.80 per kWh.
[Ans: 33.91 mm2]
3. A 400 kV 3-phase bundled conductor line with two sub-conductors per phase has a
horizontal configuration as shown in fig. 1 The radius of each sub-conductors is 1.6 cm.
(a) Find the inductance per phase per km of the line, (b) Compute the inductance of the
line with only one conductor per phase having the same cross-sectional area of the
conductor of each phase.
[Ans: (a) 1.06 mH/km, (b) 1.351mH/km]

4. A 3-phase double circuit line has the configuration shown in fig. 2. The radius of each
conductor is 0.9 cm. Find the inductance per phase per km of the line length.
[Ans: 6.136 10-4 H/phase/km]

5. A 3-phase double circuit line has its conductors at the vertices of a regular hexagon with
side 3.5 m. The diameter of each conductor is 2 cm. Find the inductance per phase per
km.
[Ans: 0.596
mH/km]
6. A 3-phase line has an equilateral spacing of 6m. It is desired to rebuild the line with same
Deq and horizontal configuration so that the central conductor is midway between the
outer conductors. Find the spacing between the outer conductor and central conductor.
[Ans: 4.762 m]
7. A 3-phase double circuit line has the conductors at the vertices of a hexagon as shown in
fig. 3. (a) If D = 3.5 m and r = 1.09 cm, find the capacitance per phase per km, (b) If the
line voltage is 132 kV and the line length 100 km, find the charging current and charging
megavolt amperes.
[Ans: (a) 0.0197 F/phase/km, (b) 47.2 A, 10.79 MVAr]

8. What is method of images? Derive the expression to determine the capacitance of a threephase transposed line considering the effect of image.
9. A 3-phase, 50 Hz overhead line has regularly transposed conductors equilaterally spaced
4 m apart. The capacitance of such a line is 0.01 F/km. Recalculate the capacitance per
kilometer to neutral when the conductors are in the same horizontal plane with successive
spacing of 4 m and are regularly transposed.
[Ans: 0.0096 F/km]
10. A 3-phase transmission line has flat, horizontal spacing with 2 m between adjacent
conductors. The radius of each conductor is 0.25 cm. At a certain instant the charges on
the center conductor and on one of the outside conductors are identical and voltage drop
between these identically charged conductors is 775 V. Neglect the effect of ground, and
find the value of the identical charge in coulomb/km at the instant specified.
[Ans: 3.08 x 10-5 coulomb/km]
11. The conductors in a 1-phase transmission line are 6 m above the ground. Each conductor
is 15 mm diameter and spacing between them is 2.5m. Calculate
a. the capacitance per km of the line neglecting the effect of ground
b. the capacitance per km of the line taking into account the effect of ground, and
c. percentage increase in capacitance due to the presence of ground
[Ans: (a) 9.563 x 10-3 F/km, (b) 9.599 x 10-3 F/km, (c) 0.376 %]
12. A 3-phase long transmission line has the following line parameters:
A = D = 0.96 /2o, B = 55 /65o, C = 0.00005/65o

Determine the sending-end voltage and power factor when the line supplies a load of 45
kW at 132 kV and 0.8 power factor lagging.
[Ans: 148 kV, 0.84 (lag)]
13. A 15 km long 3-phase overhead line delivers 5 MW at 11 kV at a power factor of 0.8
lagging. Line loss is 12% of the power delivered. Line inductance is 1.1 mH per km per
phase. Calculate (a) sending end voltage and regulation, (b) power factor of the load to
make regulation zero, (c) the value of capacitor to be connected at the receiving end to
reduce regulation to zero.
[Ans: (a) 13.61 kV, 23.75%, (b) 0.941, (c) 145.88 F]
14. A short 3-phase transmission line connected to 33 kV generating station at the sending
end is to supply a load of 10 MW at 0.8 power factor lagging at 30 kV at the receiving
end. If the minimum transmission efficiency is to be 0.96, determine the per phase values
of the line resistance and reactance.
[Ans: 2.4 per phase, 8.8 per phase]
15. A 3-phase 50 Hz 100 km long overhead line has the following line constants: resistance
per phase per km = 0.153 ohm, inductance per phase per km = 1.21 mH, capacitance per
phase per km = 0.000958 F. The line supplies a load of 20 MW at 0.9 pf lagging at a
line voltage of 110 kV at the receiving end. Using nominal- representation, calculate
sending end voltage, current, power factor, regulation and efficiency.
[Ans: 115.64 kV, 109.24 A, 0.942 lagging, 5.74%, 97%]
16. A 3-phase line is 500 km long. The line constants are z = 0.105 + j0.3768 ohms/km. y = 0
+ j 2.822 10-6 siemens per km. The line delivers 40 MVA at 0.9 pf lagging at 220 kV.
Find the sending end voltage, current, power factor, MVA and power angle.
[Ans: 216.15 kV, 157.71 A, 0.645 leading, 59.042 MVA, 8.935o]
17. A 3-phase 200 km long high voltage line has z = 14.1 + j51.48 and y = 0 + j1.19410 -3
siemens. Find the characteristic impedance, propagation constant and constants A, B and
C for the line.
[Ans: 212 -7.68o, (0.16826 + j1.251)10-3, A = 9.9696 0.49o, B
= 52.8474.79o, C = 0.001176 90.15o]
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