EE 101/102: BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

ASSIGNMENT 3 (Three Phase AC Circuits)

Q1. Three coils, each having a resistance of 20Ω and an inductive reactance of 15Ω are
connected in star to a400V, 3 phase, 50Hz supply. Calculate (i)line current (ii) power factor

(iii) Power supply.

Q2. Three 50Ω resistors are connected in star across 400V,3 phase supply

(i) Find phase current, line current and power taken from the mains.
(ii) What would be the above values if one of the resistors were disconnected?

Q3. Three similar coils, connected in star, takes a total power of 1.5KW at a power factor of
0.2 lagging from a 3 phase 400V, 50Hz supply. Calculate

(i) The resistance and inductance of each coil

(ii) The line currents if one of the coil is short circuited.

Q4. A star connected balanced system with a line voltage of 300V is supplying a balanced Y
connected load of 1200W at a leading power factor of 0.8. What is the line current and per
phase impedance? If a balanced 600W lighting load is added in parallel, find the line current.

Q5. Each phase of star connected load consist of a non-reactive resistance of 100Ω in parallel
with a capacitance of 31.8µF. Calculate line current, power absorbed, the total kVA and power
factor, when connected to a 416V, 3 phase, 50Hz supply.

Q6. A 3 phase, 400V, 50Hz, ac supply is feeding a 3 phase delta connected load with each
phase having a resistance of 25Ω, an inductance of 0.15H and a capacitance of 120µF in series.
Find the line current, volt-amp, active power and reactive power.

Q7. Three identical resistances, each of 15Ω, are connected in a delta across 400V, 3 phase
supply. What value of resistance in each leg of balanced star connected load would take the
same line current?

Q8. Two wattmeter method is used to measure the power taken by the 3 phase induction motor
on no load. The wattmeter readings are 375W and -50W. Calculate

(i) Power factor of motor at no load

(ii) Phase difference of voltage and current in two wattmeter
(iii) Reactive power.

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Q9. The power input to a 200V, 50Hz, 3 phase motor running on full load at an efficiency of
90% is measured by two wattmeter which indicate 300KW and 100KW respectively

(i) Find input power

(ii) Power factor
(iii) Line current and output power.

Q10. A 3 phase induction motor working on 400V takes a line current of 30A at a power factor
of 0.866 lagging. Two wattmeter are connected to a measure the input power to motor. What
will be the wattmeter reading? If the power factor were changed from lagging to leading, the
value remaining the same, find the new reading of wattmeter, assuming the input power
remains same.

Answers

1. (i) 9.24A
(ii) 0.8 lag
(iii) 5121 W
2. (i) 4.62A, 3200W
(ii) 4A, 1600W
3. (i) 4.266Ω, 0.0665H
(ii)IY=IB= 18.75A, IR=32.47A
4. 2.89A, 36.9ᵒ lead, 3.87<26.6ᵒA
5. 3.39A, 0.707 lead, 1728W, 2443VA
6. 21.4A, 14830VA, 11446W, 9430VAr
7. 5Ω
8. 0.404 lag, -36.18ᵒ, 96.18ᵒ, 736.12VAr
9. (i)400KW, (ii)0.756 lag,(iii) 152.74A, 360KW
10. W2=12KW, W1=6KW
W1=12KW, W2=6KW