Synchronous Motor

Operation, Effect of Load

Change,
Assignment 4 CLO 3 14-12-2022

Exercise Problems
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11(a,b), 5.12, 5.13, 5.14,
5.15, 5.16, 5.17, 5.18, 5.19, 5.20 5.23
Effect of Load Changes on a Synchronous Motor

If a load is attached to the shaft of a synchronous motor, the motor will

develop enough torque to keep the motor and its load turning at a
synchronous speed.

What happens when the load is changed on a synchronous motor?

If the load on the shaft of the motor is increased, the torque angle δ
becomes large, and the induced torque increases.

The increase in induced torque eventually speeds the rotor back up,
and the motor again turns at synchronous speed but with a larger
torque angle δ
Figure shows the motor's phasor diagram before the loads are
increased
The internal generated voltage EA is equal to KΦw and so depends
on only the field current in the machine and the speed of the
machine.

The speed is constrained to be constant by the input power supply,

since no one has touched the field circuit , the field current is
constant as well.

Therefore, lEAl must be constant as the load changes.

As the load increases, EA swings down in the manner shown in Figure.

As EA swings down further and further, the quantity jXSIA has to

increase to reach from the tip of EA to Vphase, and therefore the
armature current IA also increases.

Notice that the power-factor angle Φ changes too, becoming Less

and less leading and then more and more lagging.