Power Engineering Foundation TUTORIAL 1 (REAL, REACTIVE AND APPARENT POWER) QUESTION 1

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Assume that the voltage applied to a load is 230-30o V and current flowing through the load is 515o A. i) Calculate the complex power S consumed by this load ii) Is this load inductive or capacitive? iii) Calculate the power factor of this load. iv) Calculate the reactive power consumed or supplied by this load. Does the load consume reactive power from the source or supply it to the source.

QUESTION 2
Figure Q2 shows a simple single phase AC power system with two loads. The impedances of these two loads are: Z1 = 530o Z2 = 5-60o

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Figure Q2 Assume that the voltage applied to these loads is V = 2080o Volt i) Calculate the current flowing to these loads, I ii) Calculate the complex power, S consumed by these loads. iii) Calculate the power factor of these loads. iv) Calculate the reactive power consumed or supplied by these load. Do the loads consume reactive power from the source or supply it to the source?