EE 351, Introduction to Energy Spring 2013 Final Exam Sample

PRINT YOUR FULL NAME: ____________________________________ Last First STUDENT NUMBER:__________________________________________ SIGN HERE: ________________________________________________ Instructions: 1. This is a 70-minute test. 2. All problems will be graded. 3. The test is closed book, closed notes, no collaboration. 4. You are allowed 3 sheets, 8.5x11 of your own condensed notes GRADING: 1. ______________ Problem 1 2. ______________ Problem 2 3. ______________ Problem 3 4. ______________ Problem 4 5. ______________ Problem 5 6. ______________ Problem 6 Total: 20 points 20 points 15 points 15 points 20 points 10 points

Problem 1. (20 points)

a) (3 points) If a person touches points P1 and P2 while standing on an insulating pad, would this person be electrocuted?

P1 P2

b) (3 points)
In a nuclear power plant, the control rods are used to Accelerate the chain reaction Produce the needed neutrons for the chain reaction Store the Uranium (2 points) Slow down the chain reaction Regulate the turbine speed None of the above

c) (3 points) What are the maximum and minimum possible values of power factor? d) (3 points) Two machines are both six-pole machines, both 3-phase, Y-connected, running at nominal load. One is an induction motor and the other is synchronous machine. Whose rotor rotates faster, and why? e) (3 points) Multiple choice: Wind power grows with the speed of wind linearly quadratically cubically

f) (3 points) Fuel cells work by absorbing sunlight and converting it to electric energy (True or False) g) (2 points) With the advances in power electronics, induction motors are now considered not reliable and therefore are no longer used used in commercial applications. (True, False, True in developed countries only)?

Problem 2. (15 points)

Your friend brought a gizmo from Europe with instructions written in a strange language. From the circuit diagrams you know that at 220 V / 50 Hz the input resistance of the gizmo is 10 Ohm, and the inductance (in series with the resistance) is 20 millihenry. a) (5 points) Calculate the current in the nominal European circuit

b) (5 points) Calculate complex power to the load in the nominal circuit

c) (10 points) Find resistance and inductance that would result in the same complex power if your source was 120 V / 60 Hz.

Problem 3. (15 points)

Show calculation steps for this problem. A 115-line(per-phase), 60 Hz, three-phase, 6-pole induction motor has the following equivalent circuit: R1
115V

X1

X2

R2

Xc

(1 s ) R
s

R1 =0.07 R2 =0.08

X 1 = 0.3 X 2 = 0.03
Xc = 6.33

a) (5 points) Find the Thevenin equivalent circuit viewed from the dotted line. _ Show all parameter values in the circuit.

c) (5 points) Find the secondary current I2 at the slip of 0.05.

c) (5 points) At what slip value does the motor deliver the MAXIMAL torque? What is the motor shaft speed corresponding to the slip you find here?

Problem 4. (15 points)

1. A synchronous generator in a steam power plant is running at steady state. The terminal voltage of the generator is constant. If the electrical load of the generator is reduced and the input mechanical power of the generator is unchanged, the speed of the machine (2 points)
Decreases Non of the above

Increases Remains unchanged

and the current of the generator

Increases Remains unchanged Decreases Non of the above

(3 points)

2.

An industrial load is connected across a three-phase, Y-connected source of 4.5 KV (lineto-line). The real power of the load is 160 kW, and its power factor is 0.8 lagging. Compute the reactive power of the load. (5 points)

A synchronous motor is connected across the load to improve the power factor at the source side to unity. The synchronous motor is running unloaded (no mechanical load). The synchronous reactance of the motor is 10 . Compute the equivalent field voltage of the motor to achieve the desired power factor. (5 points)

Problem 5. (20 points)

When a half-wave rectifier supplies a reactive load, the inductor current keeps the thyristor turned on even after the source voltage goes negative at t =. The effect on inductor current is quite complicated, but from the thyristor point of view, this just means it turns on at firing angle and turns off at extinction angle b>. a) (10 points) With input voltage vz = Vm sin t , sketch the waveform of output voltage vz versus time if the thyristor turns on at firing angle =60 and turns off at extinction angle = 240.

b). (10 points) For the angles given in part a, calculate the average value of the output voltage in terms of Vm.

Problem 6. (10 points)

A 6.9 kV transmission line is connected to a transformer having 1500 turns on the primary and 24 turns on the secondary. If the load across the secondary has an impedance of 5 Ohm, calculate the following: a) (5 points) The secondary voltage

b) (5 points) the primary and secondary currents