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The number of cycles generated in an 8 pole alternator in one revolution is…

Determine the number of electrical degrees made per revolution for 16 pole alternator

A 3 phase wye connected 50 hz 2 pole synchronous machine has a stator with 2, 000 turns of wire per
phase. What rotor flux would be required to produce a terminal (line to line) voltag e of 5 kV?

. The winding of a 3 phase, 6 pole, 60 cycle alternator has 2/3 pitch.


What is the chording angle?

Determine the belt factor for a three phase winding in


which there are 12 sl ots per pole.

An alternator on open circuit generates 360 volts at 60 hz when the field current is 3.6 A neglecting
saturation, determine the generated emf at a frequency 40 hz and field current of 2.4 A.

Calculate the voltage generated between lines of a wye connected 60 hz alternator with the following
data: slots = 144, poles = 8, turns per coil = 6, flux per pole = 1.8 x 106
lines, coil span = slots 1-6 and winding being whole coiled.

A generator is rated 100 MW, 13.8 kV and 90% power factor. The effective resistance to ohmic
resistance is 1.5. The ohmic resistance is obtained by connecting two terminal to a DC source. The
current and voltage are 87.6 A and 6 volts respectively. What is the resistance per phase?

A 6.6 kV, 6 MVA, Y- connected, 3 phase alternator has an effective ac resistance of 0.6 ohm per
phase. The field current of 103 Amp produces an open circuit emf of 6,600 volt between terminals.
The field current required to produce rated full load current at short circuit condition is 82 Amp. What
is the synchronous reactance?

A 3 MVA, 50 Hz, 11 kV, 3- phase wye connected turbo- alternator when supplying 100 Amp at zero
pf leading has a line to line voltage of 12, 370 volts, when the load is removed, the terminal voltage
falls down to 11,000 volts. The effective resistance of the stator is 0.4 ohm per phase. Find the
percent (%) reactance of this alternator.

A 3 phase, 1, 200 kVA, 6.6 kV, Y connected turbo alternator with effective resistance of 0.4 ohms
and reactance of 6 ohms per phase, delivers full load at 0.80 pf lagging and nominal rated voltage
and speed. The terminal voltage for the same excitation and load current at 0.80 pf leading is nearest
to….

A 1, 500 kVA, 2300 V, 3 phase, 8 pole, 60 Hz alternator has an ohmic resistance between terminals
of 0.08 ohm. The ratio of effective to ohmic resistance is 1.5, the field takes 70 Amperes at 120 V
from exciter equipment. The friction and windage loss is 15 kW, iron losses are 35 kW and stray
load loss is 1.5 kW. What is its efficiency at rated load and 80% pf lagging?

Two 1,200 kVA AC generators running in parallel supplied the total loads of 1, 500 kW at 0.9 pf
lagging. One machine is loaded to 1, 000 kW at 0.75 lagging. The pf of the other machine nearest
to..

Two alternators are driven by shunt motors. The shunt motors have speed loads drop characteristics
of 3% and 4 % respectively. The alternators are parallel and each carrying 50 kW. There is no
automatic speed load control. An additional 50 kW is switched on. What are the resulting loads of
the alternators assuming that the speed control of each is not adjusted?

A 3 phase star connected, 1000 kVA, 6.6 kV turbo synchronous reactance of 8.7 ohms per phase
but of negligible resistance. It is supplying 87.5 Amp at 80% pf lagging to a large power system and
the emf is increased by 25% (excitation was increased). What is the new value of alternator current?

A 3 phase, Y connected, A 3 phase star connected, 1000 kVA, 6.6 kV turbo synchronous alternator
with 20% reactance but of negligible resistance is supplying full load at 80% pf lagging to a constant
voltage and frequency bus bars. If the steam supply is gradually increased without changing its
excitation, the maximum load that the generator can supply before going out of synchronism is
nearest to….

A 1, 000 kVA, 3.3 kV, 60 hz, 4 pole, 3 phase star connected wound rotor synchronous alternator
reactance of 1 ohm per phase and negligible armature resistance. When generator is connected to
an infinite bus, at certain load its open circuit emf when operating is 3490 V at power angle of 4
degrees. If a disturbance causes the power angle to swing by 1 degree (mechanical). What is the
synchronizing power per phase?

A 10 MVA, 20 kV, 3 phase, 50 hz, 1500 rpm alternator in parallel with others much generator
capacity. The moment of inertia of the rotor is 2 x 105 kg- m2 and the synchronous reactance of the
machine is 40%, What is the natural time period of oscillation?

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