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Institute for Engineers (IES/GATE/PSUs)

Sl. No. 01 ABCDEF(M)

Electrical Engineering
Conventional Test - 01 Paper-I
11th March 2018

Time Allowed : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 300

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Section-A
1. (a) Find the equivalent capacitance between terminals a and b in the circuit. All
capacitances are in F . [12 Marks]

80

12
a
40 20
12 30 10
50
b
60

1. (b) A 4 pole, 50 Hz induction motor has 24 stator slots with 2-layer winding. It has 16-
turn coils chorded by one slot. The machine is delta connected and connected to a 440
V, 3-phase supply. If the stator resistance and leakage reactance are assumed negligible
find the flux/pole of the rotating flux density wave.

[12 Marks]

1. (c) For the 8-bit weighted resistor D/A converter shown in fig. below, find r.
R
b7
2R
b6
4R
b5 RF
8R
b4
R V0
b3
2R
b2 r
4R
b1
8R
b0

[12 Marks]

1. (d) A 6 pole, 50 Hz induction motor (3-phase) running on full load develops a useful torque
of 160 N-m and the rotor emf is absorbed to make 120 cycles/min. Calculate the net
mechanical power developed. If the torque loss in windage and friction is 12 N-m, find
the copper loss in the rotor windings, the input to the motor and efficiency given:
Stator losses = 800 W (inclusive of core loss).
[12 Marks]
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1. (e) Explain the operation of a 5 stage twisted ring counter: [12 Marks]

2. (a) (i) Determine Leq that may be used to represent the inductive network of given
figure at the terminals. [10 Marks]

4H
a +–
i di
2
Leq 3H dt 5H

(ii) The switch in below figure has been closed for a long time. The fuse is a special
type of resistor that overheats and melts if the current through it exceeds 1 A for
more than 100 ms. The resistance of the fuse is 3 m . If the switch is opened at
t = 0, will the fuse blow?

t=0
0.909 

2.36 
+ 1V 1H
– Fuse

[10 Marks]

2. (b) Two coils have self and mutual inductances of

2
L11 = L22 =
1  2x

L12 = 1 – 2x

The coil resistances may be neglected

(i) If the current I1 is maintained constant at 5A and I2 at –2A, find the mechanical
work done when x increases from 0 to 0.5 m. What is the direction of the force
developed?

(ii) During the movement in part (i), what is the energy supplied by sources supplying
currents I1 and I2?

[20 Marks]

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2. (c) A 220V, 50 Hz, 4-pole, single-phase Induction motor has the following circuit model
parameters:
r1m  3.4 ; x1m  x 2  15.6
r2 = 6.8 ; x  96
The rotational losses of the motor are estimated to be 75 W. At a motor speed of 940
rpm, determine the line current, the power factor, the shaft power and the efficiency.
[20 Marks]

3. (a) What are the different types of losses occuring in rotating machines. Explain in detail:
[20 Marks]

3. (b) A 3-phase bank consisting of three single phase-3 winding transformers  Y /  / Y  is

employed to step down the voltage of a 3-phase, 220KV transmission line. The data
pertaining to one of the transformers is given below :

Ratings : Primary 1 : 20 MVA, 220 KV; secondary 2 : 10 MVA, 33 KV.

Tertiary 3 : 10 MVA, 11 KV

Short-circuit reactances on 10 MVA base : X12 = 0.15 pu, X23 = 0.1 pu, X13 = 0.2 pu.
Resistances to be ignored.

The  -connected secondaries supply their rated current to a balanced load at 0.85 pf
lagging, whereas the tertiaries provide the rated current to a balanced load at upf
(constant resistance).

(i) Compute the primary line-to-line voltage to maintain the rated voltage at the
secondary terminals.

(ii) For conditions of part (i) find the line-to-line voltage at the tertiary terminals.

(iii) If the primary voltage is held fixed as in part (i), to what value will the tertiary
voltage increases when the secondary load is removed?

[20 Marks]

3. (c) What are the different types of Addressing modes in 8085 microprocessor. Explain
with examples:

[20 Marks]

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4. (a) After being closed for a long time, the switch in the circuit of given figure is opened
at t = 0.

(i) Find Vc(t) for t > 0.

(ii) Calculate values for i A  100 s  and i A 100 s  .

t=0

iA
200  10 
+–
10 V +
+ 10 V 50  Vc 1 F
– –

[20 Marks]

4. (b) A voltage of  200sin t  50sin3t  is applied to a 250 turns transformer winding

having negligible resistance and leakage reactance. Deduce an expression for the flux
and find its maximum value. By what percentage will the eddy current loss in the iron
be reduced if the applied voltage is altered to 200sin t .    100

[20 Marks]

4. (c) A 30 kW, 440 V, 50 Hz, 3-phase, 10 pole, delta connected squirrel cage induction motor
has the following parameters referred to a stator/phase:

r1  0.54  r2  0.81 

x1  x2  6.48

ri = 414  ; m  48.6
Calculate the machine performance (input current, power, power factor, mechanical
output (gross) and torque developed (gross) for the following conditions:
(a) as a motor at a slip of 0.025
(b) as a generator at a slip of –0.025 [20 Marks]

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Section-B

5. (a) A 4A current source, a 20  resistor, and a 5 F capacitor are all in parallel. The
amplitude of the current source drops suddenly to zero (becoming a 0A current source)
at t = 0.

At what time

(i) the capacitor voltage is dropped to one half of its initial value.

(ii) the energy stored in the capacitor dropped to one half of its initial value.

[12 Marks]

5. (b) A 3 phase induction motor runs at a speed of 1485 rpm at no load and at 1350 rpm
at full load when supplied from a 50 Hz, 3-phase line.

(i) How many poles does the motor have?

(ii) What is the % slip at no load and full load?

(iii) What is the frequency of rotor voltages at no load and full load?

(iv) What is the speed at both no-load and full load of

(a) the rotor field with respect to rotor conductors,

(b) the rotor field with respect to the stator and

(c) the rotor field with respect to stator field

[12 Marks]

5. (c) Consider a key pad with eight keys marked 0 through 7. It is interfaced with an 8085
up based controller. Each key is associated with a function that the controller carries
out when the key is pressed. Whenever any key is pressed, an encoder associated with
the keypad gives an 8-bit binary output corresponding to the key pressed. Assume the
address of the port to which the keypad is connected as OAH. Write an assembly
language programme to implement this:

[12 Marks]

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5. (d) The two cages of a 3-phase, 50 Hz, 4-pole, delta connected induction motor have
respective stand still leakage impedances of (2+j8) and (9+j2)  phase. Estimate the
gross torque developed;
(i) at standstill, the effective rotor voltage being 230 V/phase
(ii) At 1450 rpm when the effective rotor voltage is 400V/phase. The rotor quantities
given are all referred to the stator; the stator impedances are negligible.
What is the gross starting torque if a star delta starter is used:
[12 Marks]

5. (e) Write an Assembly language program for 8-bit multiplication (for product 16 BIT):
[12 Marks]

6. (a) Determine the voltage V for the circuit shown below :

Vc + V–
+ – 1 i
1F Vc(0) = 4V
12V +
– 1 1H i(0) = 2A

[20 Marks]

6. (b) The equivalent circuit shown refers to a 200/400 V, single-phase 50 Hz, 4 KVA
transformer, the values given pertaining to low voltage side. For the current of
10 A at 0.8 pf lag on HV side.

Calculate

(i) Input current on low voltage side.

(ii) The efficiency.

(iii) The voltage at the terminal of high voltage side.

0.15 0.37

200V 600 300 400V

[20 Marks]

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6. (c) Explain the working of two-phase servomotor: [20 Marks]

7. (a) (i) In the balanced three-wire single phase system of figure given below, let VAN =
220V at 60 Hz

(a) What size of C should be there to provide unity pf load?

(b) How many KVA does C handle?

A
a

5+j2
n C

5+j2

b
B
[10 Marks]

(ii) In the given network, switch S is opened at t = 0, the steady state having
established previously. With switch S open, draw the transform network for analysis
on the loop basis representing all elements and all initial conditions. Write
transform equation for current in the loop.
S

2 4
10 V
1H 1F

[10 Marks]

7. (b) (i) The maximum efficiency of a 500 KVA, 3300/500 V, 50 Hz, single phase transformer
is 97% and occurs at 75% full load unity pf. If the impedance is 10%. Calculate
the regulation at full load 0.8 pf lagging.

[10 Marks]

(ii) Find the eddy current loss in a 50 Hz transformer core with a maximum density
of 1 Wb/m2. The core of section 8 cm × 6 cm and total effective length of 50 cm
is constructed of laminations of thickness (uninsulated) of 0.04 cm, having a
resistivity of 25 Ω-cm . The space factor is 0.9
[10 Marks]

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7. (c) Draw the state diagram of a modulo-4UP/down counter Design its circuit using J-K
flip flops:

[20 Marks]

8. (a) The source in below figure is balanced and exhibits (+) phase sequence. Find

(i) IaA

(ii) IbB

(iii) IcC and

(iv) The total complex power supplied by the source.

b B
10 
–+

n a A
–+ j5
1200°
–
+

Vrms –j10
c C

[20 Marks]

8. (b) (i) Determine the breadth and pitch factors for a 3-phase winding with two slots/
pole/phase. The coil span is five slot pitches. If the flux density wave in the air
gap consists of the fundamental
[10 Marks]
8. (b) (ii) A universal series motor has a resistance of 30 and inductance of 0.5 H. When
connected to a 250 V DC suply and loaded to take 0.8 A, it runs at 2000 rpm.
Determine the speed, torque and power factor, when connected to a 250 V, 50 Hz
ac supply and loaded to take the same current.
[10 Marks]

8. (c) Minimize and implement the following multiple output functions

f1  m (1, 2, 3, 6, 8,12,14,15)

f2  M (0, 4, 9,10,11,14,15) [20 Marks]

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