Electric Generation Systems Exam 2022
Electric Generation Systems Exam 2022
Group A
1. Choose the correct answer from the altermatives (any ten): lx 10
vi) The first nuclear reactor was set up in India at a) Bombay b) Tarapur c) Rana Pratap
Sagar d) None of these
The size and output of a Generation unit installation depend upon- a) average load b) square mean
i) load c maximum demand d) all of the above
vii) Asurge tank is for the protection of- (a) Dam (b) Spillways (e) Penstock (d) Headwork
ix) Control rods in nuclear power plant made of - a) zirconium b) boron c) lead d) beryllium
x) The alternator is use in power plant whiçh converts- a) Electrical energy into mechanical energy
b) Electrical energy into solar energy Mechanical energy, into electrical energy d)Mechanical
energy into nuclear energy.
Jxi) The height of chimney in a steam power plant is governed by a) Flue gases quantity b) The
draught to be produced Control of pollution d) Corner of power plant
xii) Running cost is lowest for a) Thermal Power Station 6) Hydel Power Station
c) Nuclear Power Station d) DieselGeneration
xiil) The diesel plant_ are mainly used - (a) As peak load plants (b) As baseload plants (c) As standby
power plants () Both peak and stand by plants
xiv) Pulverised Coal is used for a) It's rapid combustion b) It's availability in mines
c) Medium size power station d) It's more calorific value
AV) Heating value of diesel oil is about a) 5000 kcal/kg, b) 7000 kcal/kg, c) 9000 kcal/kg,
d) 11000 kcal/kg
2. Fill in the blanks (any ten):
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Removing dissolved gases in water is known as
ii) Bhakra Nangal is an example of type of Power plant.
1kWh = kcal
iv) Most widely used solar material is
v) The value of Demand factor
Economiser is used to heat
vii) Modern steam plants works on cycles.
vii) Power plant is expected to have the longest life
ix) Cochran is a type boiler.
Area under the load curves gives
Electron volt is the unit of
xii) Lamont boiler works on a circulation.
xiii). Temperature of the combustion chamber of the gas turbine power plant is
av) The condenser is used after the outlet of steam from
The number of isotopes of hydrogen are
3 Answer the following questions (any ten): lx10
What is the plant use factor?
ii. Where do the neutrons come from?
iii. Mention one fissile and one fertile material
iy What is the head of water available at the turbine inlet in the hydroelectric power plant called?
Give an example of a Fire-tube boiler.
Full form of FD Fan & ID Fan?
Vii What is the specific speed of aturbine?
yiii. What is Hot Reserve?
What is the diversity factor?
X. List out the drainage area characteristics?
xi. What is the fire point of a fuel?
xH. Write any two thermal power plants in West Bengal with their capacities. !
xi. Compare Kaplan and Francis turbine
How nuclear waste is disposed of?
Group B
4. Answer the following questions (any six): 2x6
What is hydrograph?
i1 What do you understand by the term boiler draught?
What are the types of nuclear reactors? J
What is nuclear fusion?
What are the limitations of gas turbines? 2
What is meant by super heater? 2
vii) Why catalytic converters are used in a thermal power plant?
What is Penstock? What is its function? 2
ix) What is the proper indication of incomplete combustion in a thermal power plant?
What is pulverization? 2
Group C
5. Answer the following question (any one): lx6
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station: Maximum demand = 25,000 kW; Load
c) I he following data is available for asteam nower Turbine efficiency =
factor = 0.4; Coal consumption 0.86 kg/kWh; Boiler efficiency = 85%;
following: (i) Thermal efficiency of the Station.
y070; Price of coal = Rs. 55 per ton. Determine the
(i)Coal billof the plant for one year.
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6. Answer the following question (any one):
Write merits and demerits of a diesel-electric power station.
i) Can Ohm's law be applied in an AC circuit? - a) Yes b) no c) depends on The RMS's current
d) Depends on the RMS voltage
In an RCcircuit when the switch is closed, the response- a) do not vary with the time b) decays
with the time c) Rises with time d)first increases then decrease
iii) Power factor of an inductive circuit is usually improved by connecting the capacitor to it in
(a) parallel (b) series (c)either (a) or (b) (d) none of the above
iv) The Apparent power is expressed in - (a) volt reactive (b volt ampere (c) volt ampere reactive
(d) none of this
ix) In adelta network each element has the value R. The value of each element in the equivalent star
network will be a) R/3, b) R/2, c) R/4, d) R/6.
xi) A capacitive load always has a power facto a) Leading b) Lagging c) Zero d) Unity
Xiii) If there are M branch currents, then we can write number of independent equations.
a) M-2 b) M-l c) M d) M+1
xiv) In an electrical circuit maximum power factor possible is-- (a) 1(b) 10 (c) 100 (d) infinite
Xv) Which among the following is regarded as short circuit forward transfer admittance?
a) yu b)yi: c) y1 d) y
2. Fill in the blanks (any ten): lx10
The curve representing Ohom's low is
i) The percentage of power increased from single phase to three phase is
ii) A three-phase 400 Vmotor draws 10 A at 0.8 lagging power factor. The power is consumed by
this motor will be approximately
iv) Conductance is expressed in terms of
v) Aclosed path made by several branches of the network is known as
vi) Inductor is element.
vi)
viii)
The Inverse Laplace transform of (1/ s+1) is
The form factor is the ratio of
ix) 1V =1 per coulomb
x) In a purely inductive circuit power factor is
xi) Polar form of 3+j4 is
xi) For a polyphase system, the number of Wattmeters required to measure power is equal to
xii) After time constants, the transient part reaches more than 99 percent of its final value.
XiV) A super node is between
Xv) During capacitor charging the voltage actually rises to Ao_ percent of its final value.
3. Answer the following questions (any ten): lx10
Group B
4 Answer the following questions (any six): 2x6
Define Q-factor?
State Maximum power transfer theorem.
ji) What is an Impedance triangle?
iv) What is the difference between a mesh and a loop?
How many phase sequences are there? Name them.
Define resonance and bandwidth.
vii) Define active and reactive power.
vii) What is a resonance in a parallel circuit?
What is transient time?
ix) Todraw the phasor diagram of a parallel circuit, which quantity should be talken as reference and
x)
why?
Group C
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5. Answer the following question (any one):
Derive the relation between line current and phase current in a balanced 3-phase delta connected
system.
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b) Draw impedance characteristics of the RLC series circuit at resonance.
c) Ade source of strength 6volts is driving a load whose resistance varies from two to twenty ohms.
Compute the variation in terminal voltage for the source as a percentage. Take the source
resistance as two ohms?
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7. Answer the following question (any one):
A transformer has 2% resistance and 5% reactance. What is its voltage regulation at full load
with
0.8p.f. lagging? a) 5.3% b) 4.6% c) 0.53% d) 0.46%
Which winding has more number of turns? a) Low voltage winding b High voltage winding
c) Primary winding d) Secondary winding
iv) The magnetizing current in a transformer is rich in- á) 3rd harmonic b) Sth harmonic c) yh
harmonic d) 13h harmonic
Totalwindings present in a single phase autotransformer are- a) 1 b)2 c) 3d) 4
vi) In a de generator having p number of poles and speed ofN pm, the frequency of magnetic
reversals will be- (a) PN/60 b) PN/120 c) PN/240 d) PN/2
vii) The losses that occur during electromechanical energy conversion are converted into
a) heat b) sound c) light d) none of the above.
vii) Which of the following is not a part of a de machinea) armature b) commutator c) field winding
damping winding.
ix) If fieldcurent is decreased in shunt de motor,the speed of the motor -
a) Remains same. (byIncreases. (c) Decreases. (d) None of the above
x) What is the shunt resistance component equivalent circuit obtained by no lo¡d test of an induction
motor representative of a) windage and friction loss (b) core loss only (c both (a) and (b)
(d) Copper loss r
xi) In a DC machine, the form of armature mmf waveform is
)Triangular b) Sinusoidal c)Saw tooth d) Rectangular
xi) The ratio of starting torque to full load torque is least in.
a) differential compound motor b) cumulative compound motor c) shunt motor d) series motor.
xiii) Breather is provided in a transformer to- a) Absorb moisture of air during breathing b) provide
cold air in the transformer c) The flter of transformer oil d) None of above
xiv) Which transformer insulation material is best compare to Kraft paper?
a) Asbestos (b) Oil (c) Cotton (d) Low grade presboard
xv) Primary current in CT is -a independent of secondary circuit b) dependent on secondary circuit
c) depends on transformation ratio d) depends on nominal ratio
2. Fillin the blanks (any ten): lx10
A DC Current generator can be used for battery charging magnetic netural flux
j) In order to have sparkles commutation, the brushes should be placed along
The direction of induced current in a self-excited d.c generator is determined by Fleming's right hand rule
rule
iv) The primary winding of a230/6 V, 50 Hz transformer is energized from 110 V, 50 Hz supply. The
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secondary output voltage will be
power Transformer only.
Buchholz relay is used in gie
The colour of moisture-free silica gel is blue
vii) Outwards flow of current is represented by the symbol dot
yii) Very small transformers are generally air cooled.
ix) The turn's ratio of an isolation transformer is 1:1
X) A scott connected transformer is used to convert three phase supply to > 2 phase supply
xi) Transformers are rated in KVA
xii) A conservator tank is used for providing space for oil to expand and contract
xii) A 4 point dc motor starter is used for protect the armature of DC shunt or compound wound motors from high starting currents.
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xiv) In awave wound DC machine, number of parallel paths is always equal to Yo
95-99%
xv) The approximate efficiency of a large transformer is
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3 Answer the following questions (any ten):
Define conditions of ideal transformer?
What is magnetic neutral axis?
Äü) Why the core of a transformer is laminated?
What is called the inrush current of a motor?
What are the advantages of carbon brush over the copper brush?
Ì) What do you mean by critical speed of dc shunt generator?
vii) What is the use of equalizer rings?
vii) In a three-phase star - delta transformer, what is the angle difference between primary and
secondary phase voltages?
Îx) What is the purpose of oil in an oil-filled transformer?
What are the two types of Instrument transformers?
What is Hysteresis Loss in Transformer?
xii) Write down the relation between MMF and flux
xiv) What is determined from Short Circuit Test?
XV) Write down the condition for voltage build up in a dc generator.
Group B
2x6
4. Answer the following questions (any six):
What is the use of Commutator in DC machine?
ii) Define armature reaction.
iii) State the working principle of DC motor.
What is the function of compensating winding?
How willyou change the direction of dc motor?
i) Define critical resistance in dc generator
vii) Why do we represent leakage flux in a transformer by inductive reactance?
Define voltage regulation in transformer
yit)
x) State differences between lap and wave winding.
x) What do you mean by TT or Scott connection of a 3-phase transformer?
Group C
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5. Answer the following question (any one):
Describe with neat diagram the constructional features ofDCmachines. Derive the expression for
generated emf in a DC machine.
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In a 110volts compound generator, the armature. shunt and series windings are 0.06 ohm, 2 onm
and 0.04ohm respectively. The load consists of 200 Jamps each rated at 55 watts,110 V. Find the
totale.m.f and armature current, when the machine is connected for long shunt.
c) Draw the physical connections and phasor diagrams of the following transformer connections:
Dz6, Ydl and Y|ll.
6. Answer the following question (any one): lx6
Accuracy of Kelvin bridge is of the order of - a) +0.5 to +2 % b) ±0.05 to +0.02 %c) +0.05 to 0.2
% d) +0.005 to ±0.02 %
iv) Dielectric loss of capacitor is measured by a) Kelvin bridge by Schering bridge c) Anderson
bridge d) none of these
The resistance in the circuit of the moving coil of a dynamometer wattmeter should be
a) low b) very low c) high d) zero
The windings of a C.T. are a) tied together b) shorted c) wound over one another
grounded
Two wattmeters are used to measure the power in a 3-phase balanced system. What is the power
factor of the load when one wattmeter reads twice the other? a) 0 b) 0.5 c) 0.866 d) 1
Kelvin's double bridge is used to measure low resistance because_ a) there is no thermo electric
emf b) it has high sensitivity c) effect of contact and lead resistance is eliminated d) resistance
variation due to temperature
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2. Fill in the blanks (any ten): lx10
i1) Induction type single-phase energy meters measure electric energy in
ii) An instrument whose calibration can be determined by means of physical measurements on the
ìnstrument.
iii) instruments indicate the instantaneous value of the electrical quantity being measured at
the time at which it is being measured.
iv) The scale of a moving iron instrument is
v) In a Weston synchronoscope, the fixed coils are connected across
vi) Shunt magnet has turns of wires.
vii) The braking torque of induction type energy meter is provided by
viii) A device prevents the oscillation of the moving system and enables the latter to reach its
final position quickly.
ix) For measurement of mutual inductance we can use
Dual trace CROs use electron gun.
xi) Energy meter is an type instrument.
xii) The terminals across the source are if a current source is to be neglected.
xii) A Wien's bridge used to measure
xiv) Rectifier type instrument converts
) Reciprocal of reluctance is
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3. Answer the following questions (any ten):
What is accuracy?
What is the function of the damping system?
Dielectric loss can be found by which bridge?
Wite down one application of earth tester.
Give two examples of MI instrument.
vi) Write one application of tri-vector meter.
yir) Control spring usually made up of which material?
m) What do you mean by range of an Instrument?
What is an air-core transformer?
Why are CT and PT used?
xi) If the current coil of the energy meter is connected in parallel, what will happen?
What is FSD in measuring instruments?
What is the use of neutral grounding?
xiv) What is a transducer?
Group B
2x6
4. Answer the following questions (any six):
What is creeping? How can it be avoided?
ii) What is swamping resistance?
What is the absolute instrument?
iv) Define terms repeatability and static sensitivity. examples.
v) Differentiate between the terms Scale Range and Scale Span giving suitable
resistance?
vì) Why is the Wheatstone bridge not suitable for measuring very low
What do you mean by Phantom Loading' of Energy Meter?
Viii) Describe the L-C-R meter.
ix) What is Dual trace CRO?
) What is Megger?
Group C
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5. Answer the following question (any one):
of a PMMCtype instrument.
With a neat sketch explain the construction & working principle
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b) Explain spring control and gravity control controlling devices.
c) The meter constant of a 230 volt, 10amp watthour meter is 1800
is tested at half load and rated voltage and unity power revolutions per kWh. The meter
factor. The meter is found to make 80
revolutions in 138 seconds. Determine the meter error at half load.
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7. Answer the following question (any one):
Explain measurement of Capacitance using Schering bridge.
Draw the block diagram of a basic Digital Frequency Meter and write the function of each block.
xi) The main purpose of using transformer coupling in a class A amplifier is to make it more
a) Efficient b) Less costly c) Less bulky d) Distortion free.
xii) In which region a MOSFET, works as amplifier? a) Linear b) Cut-off c)Saturation d) None of
these
xii) Which of the following oscillator can be used where high stability of frequency is required?
a) Wien Bridge Oscillator b) Crystal Oscillator c) Hartley Oscillator d) None of the above
xiv) What is the standard form of D flip-Flop? (a) data (b) deterministic (c) delay (d) none of the above.
xv) Function of BJT is - a) Voltage control current source b) Current control current source
c) voltage control voltage source d) current control voltage source
2. Fill in the
blanks (any ten): lx10
i) If A and B are the inputs of a half adder, the
ii) carry is given by
MOSFET can be used as a capacitor.
ii) In parts of the processor, adders are used to calculate
iv) Register is fastest in terms of data transmission.
v) The Avalanche breakdown voltage is than Zener breakdown voltage.
vi) Colpitts oscillators usually generate signals of fixed frequencies because
vii) AMod 16 counter has
viii)
numbers of flip flop.
Ripple UP/DOWN counter is an example of type of counter.
ix) Intrinsic stand-off ration is related to ujt device
X) Ina decoder, if the input lines are 4 then number of maximum of output will be
xi) The input impedance of CE mode is
xii) The output of latches will remain in set/reset until
xii) Full subtractor is used to perform subtraction of
xiv) Gray code for the binary number 1100 is
xv) In a half wave rectifier the peak value input ac is 10n volt, the output dc voltage is equal to
volt.
Group C
5. Answer the following question (any one): lx6
a) Draw the V-Icharacteristics of the Zener diode indicating the important region in the diagram.
Explain CE mode BJT amplifier with suitable diagram.
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c) Determine the following parameters for the fixed bias configuration of transistor amp
(1) IB and IC (ii) VCE and (iii) VB and VC. AsSume [Link] B=100, Vcc=l6V,
RC-2.2ksl and RB-240 kSl.
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6. Answer the following question (any one):
a) Draw the circuit diagram of Colpitt's Oscillator and explain its principle of operation.
each diode may be assumed
b) A full-wave rectifier uses two diodes, the internal resistance of of
constant at 20 Q. The transformer R.M.S, secondarv voltage from centre tap to each end
mean load current (ii) the R.M.S.
secondary is 50 V and load resistance is 980 Q. Find: ) the
value of load current.