ELECTRICAL MACHINES 1 7. The output of a shunt generator is 24 KW at a terminal 15.

A shunt generator has a full-load current of 100 A at

voltage of 200 V. Armature resistance 0.05 ohm, shunt 220 .Stray losses are 1KW and shunt field current is 12 A.
Assignment #1 field resistance 40 ohms. If the iron and friction losses The armature resistance including brushes is 0.055 ohms.
equal to the copper loss at this load. Find the bhp of the Calculate the efficiency of the machine.
1. A separately excited dc generator has no load output engine. a. 83.5 % b. 92.1 % c. 98.4 % d. 90.1 %
voltage of 120 V. its equivalent armature resistance is a. 34.5 hp b. 36.9 hp c. 37.8 hp d. 40.2 hp 16. Two identical shunt generator A and B are connected in
0.95 ohms. If a load rated 2000 W at 115 V is connected 8. A shunt generator delivers 195 A at a terminal voltage of parallel to supply a total load current of 1000A. Each
across its terminal, what power could be delivered to the 250 V. the armature resistance and shunt field resistance machine has a field resistances of 80 ohms and an
load? Neglect armature reaction. are 0.02 and 50 ohms respectively. If the iron and friction armature resistance of 0.02 ohms. The induced emf of
a. 1665 W b. 1720 W c. 1620 W d. 1792 W losses amount to 950 W, determine the power input to generators A and B are 250 and 240 V, respectively.
2. Two shunt generators running in parallel supply a total the generator. Determine the current delivered by generator A.
load current of 2000 A. each machine has a field a. 52,340 W b. 51,750 W c. 47,750 W d. 55,230 W a. 750 A b. 600 A c. 250 A d. 400 A
resistance of 50 ohms and an armature resistance of 0.01 9. Two shunt generators are running in parallel. The no-load 17. A 4-pole dc generator has an armature winding
ohm. The emfs generated are 230 V and 235 V voltage of each generator is 120 V. Generator 1 is rated at containing a total of 648 conductors connected in two
respectively. Calculate the busbar voltage. 250 KW and its full load voltage is 115 V. Generator 2 is parallel paths. If the flux per pole is 0.321 x 106 maxwells
a. 230.3 V b. 228.2 V c. 222.5 V d. 234.6 V rated at 200 KW at 112 V. If the load supplied is 3600 A, and the speed of rotation of the armature is 1800 rpm,
3. A 110-KW short shunt compound generator has a no load calculate the output current of generator 2. calculate the average generated voltage.
voltage of 500 V and is overcompounded by 10 % a. 1200 A b. 1800 A c. 2000 A d. 2400 A a. 120 V b. 225 v c. 200 V d. 125 V
producing a linear characteristics. Armature resistance= 10. A lap connected separately excited dc generator has 728 18. A shunt generator when running light as a motor at 1000
0.09 ohm, series field winding resistance = 0.04 ohm and conductors and 20 mWb flux per pole. The armature rpm takes 12 A from 115 volt mains. The field current is 7
shunt field resistance = 100 ohms. What is the emf on resistance is 0.1 ohm. At what speed must the generator A, and the armature resistance is 0.03 ohm. Determine
load? run to maintain 220 V at the terminals while supplying 50 stray power loss of the machine at this particular value of
a. 546.35 V b. 556.21 V c. 568.2 V d. 576.5 V A current to a resistive load? flux and speed.
4. A dc series generator supplies a load of resistance of 1.4 a. 909.5 rpm b. 924.4 rpm c. 916.8 rpm d. 927.2 rpm a. 565 W b. 574 W c. 558 W d. 550 W
ohms through a pair of feeder conductors of total 11. A 100 KW, 230 V shunt generator has armature resistance
resistance 0.1 ohm. The voltage at the dc generator = 0.05 ohm and shunt field resistance = 57.5 ohms. Then
terminals is 120 volts. What is the pd at the load? total mechanical and core loss is 1.8 KW. Determine the
a. 110 V b. 114 V c. 112 V d. 115 V value of maximum efficiency that this generator can get.
5. A long shunt compound generator has a shunt field a. 89.3 % b. 90.6 % c. 94.31 % d. 92.73 %
winding of 1000 turns per pole and a series field winding 12. A dc series generator is supplying power to a 60 KW, 600
of 4 turns per pole. In order to obtain the same ( rated ) V lighting load, through a two-wire feeder of total
voltage at full load as at no-load, when operated as a resistance, 0.5 ohm. The armature and series field
shunt generator, it is necessary to increase the field resistances are respectively 0.01 ohm and 0.02 ohm
current by 0.2 A. the full load armature current of the respectively. Determine the power generated in the
compound generator is 80 A and the series field armature.
resistance is 0.05 ohm. Calculate the diverter resistance a. 67.5 KW b. 68.2 KW c. 65.3 KW d. 66.8 KW
required for flat compound generator. 13. Two shunt generators are running in parallel to supply a
a. 0.0617 ohms b. 0.0713 ohms total current of 1500 A. Each machine has a filed
c. 0.0508 ohms d. 0.0833 ohms resistance of 100 ohms and an armature resistance of
6. A separately-excited generator, when running at 1000 0.02 ohm. The emfs generated by each are 450 and 460
rpm supplied 200 A at 125 V. what will be the load volts, respectively. Find the KW of the second generator.
current when the speed drops to 800 rpm. Armature a. 431 KW b. 440 KW c. 429 KW d. 434 KW
resistance = 0.04 ohms. Assume brush drop = 2 V. 14. An 8-pole, dc generator has a duplex lap wound armature,
a. 156.2 A b. 159.4 A c. 164.2 A d. 160.9 A which has 64 coils with 16 turns per coil. If the resistance
of this winding is 0.015 ohms per turn, what is the
armature resistance of this machine?
a. 15.36 ohms b. 0.96 ohms
c. 0.06 ohms d. 0.2 ohms