Assignment 1 EE-250 – Electric Machinery Fundamentals

Instructions
1. Last date for the submission of the assignment is Monday 24 October 2022 12 Noon.

2. Assignment will be submitted in hard form in HV Lab Office. Use A4 pages for the assignment.

3. Registration number must be written on each and every page.

4. In case of copy paste both/all students will get F grade

Questions
Basics of the DC Motors

1. A separately excited DC motor with a constant field current and constant speed of 3000 rpm
consumes 15 kW at a terminal voltage of 125 V. If the armature resistance is 0.02 Ω, determine
the armature current, the back EMF Eb , power developed at the armature and torque.

2. A 110 V DC shunt motor runs at a speed of 1200 rpm under no load conditions drawing an
armature current of 1.25 A. At rated load, the speed drops to 1120 rpm. Determine the input
power at no-load and rated load if the armature and field resistances are 0.25 Ω and 57.5 Ω
respectively.

3. A DC series motor operates at 800 rpm drawing a supply current of 50 A from 110 V DC
source. The armature and field resistances are 0.15 and 0.1 Ω respectively. Determine the
speed of the motor if the supply current has been reduced to 25 A due to load change with a
corresponding decrease in flux per pole by 45 %.

4. A DC shunt motor running at 700 rpm draws 2 A at no load from a 110 V source. The armature
and field resistances of the motor are 0.6 Ω and 100 Ω respectively. If the input power is 4 kW
at full load, determine the speed at full load, torque, and efficiency at full load neglecting the
iron and rotational losses.

5. A DC series motor is drawing 20 A at 110 V running at 800 rpm. The armature and field
resistances are 0.1 Ω and 0.05 Ω respectively. Determine the motor output power in horsepower
and torque developed at the armature if iron and frictional losses are 50 W.

6. A four pole 110 V self excited DC motor has 270 lap wound conductors. The motor draws 16
A from the DC source and produces 3.75 hp of shaft power. The armature and field resistances
are 0.45 Ω and 110 Ω respectively. Determine the speed and torque if the flux per pole is 15
mWb.

7. A 110 V self excited DC shunt motor runs at 100 rpm drawing an armature current of 25 A.
Determine the speed if the torque has to be doubled. The armature resistance is 0.2 Ω.

8. A DC shunt motor is running at 1000 rpm while drawing a current of 12.5 A from 110 V DC
source. The armature and field resistances are Ω and 110 Ω respectively. Determine the speed
of the motor when the motor draws a current of 25 A from a 110 V DC supply and flux per
pole is reduced by 3 % due to armature reaction.

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DC Machines –Chapter 8 Examples

Example 8.1: A 50-hp, 250-V, 1200 rpm DC shunt motor with compensating windings has an
armature resistance (including the brushes, compensating windings, and inter-poles) of 0.06 Ω. Its
field circuit has a total resistance Rf + Radj of 50 Ω, which produces a no-load speed of 1200 rpm.
There are 1200 turns per pole on the shunt field winding.

Figure 1: DC shunt motor

1. Find the speed of this motor when its input current is 100 A.

2. Find the speed of this motor when its input current is 200 A.

3. Find the speed of this motor when its input current is 300 A.

4. Plot the torque-speed characteristic of this motor.

Example 8.2: A 50-hp, 250-V, 1200 rpm DC shunt motor without compensating windings has an
armature resistance (including the brushes and inter-poles) of 0.06 Ω. Its field circuit has a total
resistance Rf + Radj of 50 Ω, which produces a no-load speed of 1200 rpm. There are 1200 turns per
pole on the shunt field winding, and the armature reaction produces a demagnetising magnetomotive
force of 840 Ampere turns at a load current of 200 A. The magnetisation curve of this machine is
shown in Figure 2.

1. Find the speed of this motor when its input current is 200 A.

2. This motor is essentially identical to the one in Example 8-1 except for the absence of compen-
sating windings. How does its speed compare to that of the previous motor at a load current
of 200 A?

3. Calculate and plot the torque-speed characteristic for this motor.

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Figure 2: Magnetisation Curve

Example 8.3: Figure 3 shows a 100-hp, 250-V, 1200 rpm shunt DC motor with an armature
resistance of 0.03 Ω and a field resistance of 41.67 Ω. The motor has compensating windings, so
armature reaction can be ignored. Mechanical and core losses may be assumed to be negligible for
the purposes of this problem. The motor is assumed to be driving a load with a line current of 126
A and an initial speed of 1103 rpm.To simplify the problem, assume that the amount of armature
current drawn by the motor remains constant.

Figure 3: DC shunt motor

1. If the machine’s magnetization curve is shown in Figure 2, what is the motor’s speed if the
field resistance is raised to 50 Ω?

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2. Calculate and plot the speed of this motor as a function of the field resistance assuming a
constant current load.

Example 8.4 The motor in previous question is now connected separately excited, as shown in
Figure 4. The motor is initially running with Va = 250 V, Ia = 120 A, and n = 1103 r/min, while
supplying a constant-torque load. What will the speed of this motor be if Va is reduced to 200 V?

Figure 4: DC shunt motor

Example 8.5 Figure 8-20 shows a 250-V series DC motor with compensating windings, and a
total series resistance Ra + Rs of 0.08 Ω. The series field consists of 25 turns per pole, with the
magnetisation curve shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: DC shunt motor

1. Find the speed and induced torque of this motor for when its armature current is 50 A.

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2. Calculate and plot the torque-speed characteristic for this motor.

Example 8.7: Figure 6 shows a 100-hp, 250-V, 350-A shunt dc motor with an armature resistance
of 0.05 Ω. We wish to design a starter circuit for this motor which will limit the maximum starting
current to twice its rated value and which will switch out sections of resistance as the armature
current falls to its rated value.

Figure 6: DC shunt motor

1. How many stages of starting resistance will be required to limit the current to the range
specified?

2. What must the value of each segment of the resistor be? At what voltage should each stage of
the starting resistance be cut out?

Example 8.8: A 50-hp, 250-V, 1200 rpm shunt dc motor has a rated armature current of 170 A
and a rated field current of 5 A. When its rotor is blocked, an armature voltage of 10.2 V (exclusive
of brushes) produces 170 A of current flow, and a field voltage of 250 V produces a field current flow
of 5 A. The brush voltage drop is assumed to be 2 V. At no load with the terminal voltage equal to
240 V, the armature current is equal to 13.2 A, the field current is 4.8 A, and the motor’s speed is
1150 rpm.

1. How much power is output from this motor at rated conditions?

2. What is the motor’s efficiency?

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