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UNIT-I INTRODUCTION
1. What is Power system? What are the principle components of electrical
power system?
The conveyance of electrical power from a power station to consumer premises is
known as electrical power system.
The principle components of electrical Power system consists of Generation,
Transmission and Distribution.
10. What is impedance diagram? What are the approximations made in impedance
diagram?
The impedance diagram is the equivalent circuit of power system in which the
Various c o m p o n e n t s of p o w e r s y s t e m a r e r e p r e s e n t e d by t h e i r
a p p r o x i m a t e or simplified equivalent circuits. The impedance diagram is used for
load flow studies.
Approximation:
(i) The neutral reactances are neglected.
(ii)The shunt branches in equivalent circuit of transformers are neglected.
18. What is the relation between percentage value and per unit value?
The ratio in percentage is 100 times the p.u value
19. Prove the per unit impedance of the transformer referred to the primary side is equal
to the per unit impedance referred to secondary side?
Let the impedance of the transformer referred to primary side be ZP and that on
secondary side be ZS then,
2
ZP = ZS ( VP / VS )
Where VP and VS are the primary and secondary voltage of the transformer. ZP
p.u = ( IP ZP / VP )
2
= ZS ( VP / VS ) ( IP / VP )
2
= ZS IP VP / VS
2
= ZS. (Is Vs / VS )
= ZS IS / VS = ZS p.u
Therefore ZP p.u = ZS p.u
20. Give equation for transformation base KV on LV side to HV side of transformer and
vice versa.
Base KV on HT side = base KV on LT side *(HT voltage rating/ LT voltage rating)
22. A generator rated at 30MVA, 11KV has a reactance of 20%.Calculate its per unit
reactance for a base of 50 MVA and 10KV.
MVA new = 50 ; KV new = 10 ; MVA old = 30 ; KV old = 11
X p.u = 20% = 20/100 = 0.2 p.u
23. What is the new p.u impedance if the new base MVA is twice the old base MVA?
3. What are the methods available for forming bus admittance matrix?
Direct inspection method.
Singular transformation method.(Primitive network)
5. What are the informations that are obtained from a load flow study?
The information obtained from a load flow study is magnitude and phase angle of
voltages, real and reactive power flowing in each line and the line losses. The load
flow solution also gives the initial conditions of the system when the transient behavior
of the system is to be studied.
8. What are the different types of buses in a power system? Or how the buses are
classified and what are its types?
Known or specified Unknown quantities or
Types of bus
quantities quantities to be determined
Slack or Swing or Reference bus V, P,Q
Generator or Voltage control or PV bus P, V Q,
Load or PQ bus P, Q V,
9. What is the need for slack bus?
The slack bus is needed to account for transmission line losses. In a power
system the total power generated will be equal to sum of power consumed by
loads and losses. In a power system only the generated power and load power
are specified for buses. The slack bus is assumed to generate the power required
for losses. Since the losses are unknown the real and reactive power are not
specified for slack bus.
13. What is jacobian matrix? How the elements of jacobian matrix are computed?
The matrix formed from the first derivatives of load flow equation is called jacobian
matrix and it is denoted by J.
The elements of jacobian matrix will change in every iteration .the elements of
the jacobian matrix are obtain matrix are obtained by partiaaly differentiatingthe
the load flow equation with resprct to a unknown variable and then
evaluating the first derivativeas using the solution of previous iteration.
14. What do you mean by a flat voltage start?
In iterative method of load flow solution, the initial voltages of all buses except
slack bus assumed as 1+j0 p.u. This is refereed to as flat
voltage start
17. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Gauss seidal method?
Advantages: Calculations are simple and so the programming task is
lessees. The memory requirement is less. Useful for small systems;
Disadvantages: Requires large no. of iterations to reach converge .Not
suitable for large systems. Convergence time increases with size of the
system.
12. Find the fault current in fig., if the prefault voltage at the fault point is 0.97 p.u.?
j0.2 F
j0.1 j0.1
j0.2 and j 0.15 are in series. j0.2+ j 0.15 = j 0.35
J0.35 is in parallel with j 0.15
14. Give the methods available for forming bus impedance matrix.
Form bus admittance matrix and take the inverse to get bus impedance matrix.
Using bus building algorithm.
Using L-U factorization of Y-bus matrix.
UNIT- IV FAULT ANALYSIS UNBALANCED FAULT
120 Ia1
120
Ib1
120
120 Ia2
120
Ic2
4. What are the zero sequence components?
It consists of three phasors equal in magnitude and with zero phase displacement
from each other.
Ia0 Ib0
Ic0 Ia0 = Ib0 = Ic0
a = 1120 = = - 0.5+j0.866
6. Write down the equations to convert unbalanced phase
currents into symmetrical components. (Or) Determination of
symmetrical currents from unbalanced currents.
Let, Ia, Ib, Ic be the unbalanced phase currents
Let, Ia0, Ia1, Ia2 be the symmetrical components of phase a
8. Draw the positive, negative and zero sequence network of all power system
components.
-----To refer Sequence impedance and network Table 4.1-----
9. Write the equation to determine fault current for L-G, L-L and L-L-G fault with
impedance.
-----To refer Unsymmetrical fault current Table 4.2-----
10. Draw the equivalent sequence network diagram for L-G, L-L and L-L-G fault .
-----To refer Unsymmetrical fault sequence network Table 4.3-----
11. Write the power angle equation and draw the power angle curve.
13. Write the swing equation for a SMIB (Single machine connected to an infinite bus
bar) system.
M
Where H = inertia constant in MW/MVA
f = frequency in Hz
M = inertia constant in p.u
14. Define swing curve.
The swing curve is the plot or graph between the power angle and time t. From the
nature of variations of the stability of a system for any disturbance can be determined.
15. In a 3 machine system having ratings G1, G2 and G3 and inertia constants M1, M2
and M3.What is the inertia constants M and H of the equivalent system.
20. List the methods of improving the transient stability limit of a power system.
Reduction in system transfer reactance
Increase of system voltage and use AVR
Use of high speed excitation systems
Use of high speed reclosing breakers
21. What are the numerical integration methods of power system stability?
i.Point by point method or step by step method
ii.Euler method
iii.Modified Euler method
iv.Runge-Kutta method(R-K method)