UNITED INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (UIU)

Dept. Of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE)

Exam: Final Exam, Trimester: Summer, Year: 2021
Course: EEE 4211/ EEE 471 (Sec – A), Title: Transmission and Distribution Systems
Marks: 50, Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes, Upload time: 15 minutes

Instructions:
1. Write Name, ID, Course Code and Course title on top of your front page.
2. Figures at the right-hand margin indicate full marks.
3. Answer parts of individual question together.
4. Any examinee found adopting unfair means will be expelled from the trimester / program
as per UIU disciplinary rules.
5. There are five questions in the question paper. Answer any four out of five.

Q1. An overhead transmission line through a hilly area is supported from two towers at heights of [12.5]
85 m and 63 m. The span length is 400 m. The maximum allowable tension on the conductor
is 950 kg/cm2 with a safety factor 2.2. If the cross sectional area and weight of the conductor
is 2.5 cm2 and 85 kg/100m respectively,

I. Find the clearance of the mid-span point from the ground under the given condition,
II. How should the height of the higher support be adjusted so that the minimum point
will lie on the tip of the smaller tower?

Q2. For a 3-phase transmission system is supplying the following loads at 33kV having the below [12.5]
daily load cycle:
1. 48 MW for 8 hours at 0.84 P.F lag
2. 40 MW for 8 hours at 0.94 P.F lag
3. 16 MW for 8 hours at unity P.F

The cost of a 3-phase overhead transmission line is TK (12000+8000a) per km, where ‘a’ is
the area of cross-section of each conductor in cm2. Interest and depreciation cost is 12% per
annum and the cost of energy is 7.5 Tk./kwh. Resistivity of conductor material is 1·72 × 10−6
Ω cm.
Find the most economical size of the conductor according to Kelvin’s law.

Q3. A 180kV, 50 Hz three phase line with 2.4 cm diameter conductors which are equilaterally [12.5]
spaced i.e. apart in equilateral triangle formation so that corona takes place when the line
voltage exceeds 200kV (r.m.s). If the temperature is 340C and the atmospheric pressure is
74cm of Hg and the breakdown strength of air is 21.1kV/cm (r.m.s). Find

I. Spacing between the conductors

II. Total corona loss for the stated weather conditions using Peek’s formula.
[Assume irregularity factor for critical disruptive voltage as 0.84]
Q4. A three phase distribution system is shown in Figure Q4. Power is supplied at ‘A’ at 11kV [12.5]
(Line to line voltage). Balanced loads of 60A per phase at 0.83 lagging p.f and 80A at 0.86
lagging p.f are drawn from B and C respectively. The impedance of the feeders are AB= (6 +
j7) ohm, BC= (5+j5) ohm and CA=(7 + j8) ohm. Calculate the voltage at B and C. [Power
factor is measured w.r.t voltage at A]

Figure Q4

Q5. The single line diagram of Figure Q5 shows a generator connected to a large metropolitan area [12.5]
considered as infinite bus. Determine the critical clearing angle for the generator for a three
phase fault at ‘P’ (mid-point of the lower line) when the generator delivering 1.0 p.u power.
Here, |E| is the no load subtransient induced voltage.

Figure Q5