Homework No.

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EE 321 Electrical Machines 2
(Topic: Armature Winding and EMF Generated Equation)

Direction: Solve the following problems. Write your solutions on your assignment
notebook. Write legibly and box your final answer.

1. Calculate the coil span factor or the pitch factor for the following windings:
a) 54 stator slots, six-poles, when coil spans 1 to 8.
b) 42 stator slots, four-poles, coil spans 1 to 10.
c) 96 stator slots, six-poles, coil spans 1 to 13.

Ans. 0.94; 0.925; 0.925

2. A star connected, three-phase 4 pole, 50 Hz alternator has a single layer winding

in 24 stator slots. There are 50 turns in each coil and the flux per pole is 5 mega
lines. Find the open circuit line voltage.
Ans. 3715 V

3. The field system of a 50 Hz alternator has sinusoidal flux per pole of 0.075 Wb.
Find emf generated in one turn of the machine if the winding has a span of 150°
(electrical).
Ans. 16 V

4. The air gap flux of a 12 pole, 3-I alternator is 0.058 weber per pole and is
distributed sinusoidally over the pole. The stator has 2slots per pole per phase and 8
conductors per slot. The winding is a double layer winding with a coil span of 135°
electrical apart. Find the voltage generated per phase at no-load when the machine
runs at 500 rpm.
Ans. 1175 V

5. A 3-phase, 16-pole synchronous generator has a star-connected winding with 144

slots and 10 conductors per slot. The flux per pole is 0.04 Wb (sinusoidally
distributed) and the speed is 375 rpm. Find the frequency and phase and line
induced emf’s. The total turns/phase may be assumed to be series connected.

Ans. 50 Hz, 3543.6 V

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6. A 3-phase, 50 Hz, star-connected alternator with 2-layer winding is running at 600
rpm. It has 12 turns/coil, 4 slots/pole/phase and a coil-pitch of 10 slots. If the
flux/pole is 0.035 Wb sinusoidally distributed, find the phase and line emf’s induced.
Assume that the total turns/phase are series connected.
Ans. 3451 V, 5978 V

7. Determine the distribution and pitch factors for a 3-phase winding with 2 slots per
pole per phase. The coil span is 5 slot-pitches.

8. A synchronous generator has 12 poles and 3-phase winding placed in 144 slots;
the coil span is 10 slots. Determine the distribution factor, pitch factor and winding
factor

9. A three-phase four-pole synchronous machine has 96 stator slots. The slots

contain a double-layer winding (two coils per slot) with four turns per coil. The coil
pitch is 19/24.
(a) Find the slot and coil pitch in electrical degrees.
(b) Find the pitch, distribution, and winding factors for this machine.

10. Determine the number of poles of an alternator if one rotation of shaft is equal
to 2,160 electrical degrees.

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