Polyphase System
Polyphase System
15. A balanced delta connected load draws 10Amp line current and 3 kW at 220V. The reactance of each phase of the load in ohms
is.
a. 30 b. 23.5 c. 38.1 d. 20
16. A three phase source of 230V supplies the following three phase loads. 20kW at 90% power factor leading, 50kW at 80% power
factor lagging and 10 kW at unity power factor. What is the total kVA and current?
a. 85.7 & 225A b. 94.7 & 182.8A c. 84.7 & 212.6A d. 84.7 & 92.88A
17. Three identical impedances of 15 cis 60 ohms are connected in star to a 3phase, 3wire, 240V system. The lines between the
supply and the load have impedances of 2+j1 ohms. Find the magnitude of the line voltage at the load.
a. 220V b. 185V c. 240V d. 213V
18. A balanced delta connected load of impedance 13.5+j9 ohms are connected to a three phase balanced source of 4160volts 60Hz
through a line with 0.5 ohm resistance and 2 ohms reactance. With Van=2400<0, find the line B current using ABC sequence.
a. 87.8+j327.8A b. 69.3-j52A c. -327.8-j87.8A d. 240-j240A
19. A balanced 3phase, 3 wire, 240V,60Hz source supplies power to a star connected load Za=10+j0, Zb=10+j10 and Zc=10+j0.
What is the line current?
a. 11.53A b. 10.02A c. 15.93A d. 16.97A
20. The power input to a 100hp, 480 volts, 85% efficiency and 75% power factor 3phase motor at full load is measured by two
wattmeter connected at lines A&C. What are the readings in kW?
a. 66.23 & 21.55 b. 69.5 & 18.26 c. 87.76 & 11.7 d. 67.89 & 30.4
21. A three phase induction motor takes 3000kW at 80% pf. Two wattmeters are used to measure the power, Wa & Wc. Wa reading is..
a. 2000 b. 3000 c. 2150 d. 2500
22. In a balanced 3 phase, 208 volts circuit, the line current is 100A. The power is measured by two wattmeter method, one reads 18
kW and the other is 9kW. What is the pf of the load?
a. 0.8 b. 0.5 c. 0.866 d. 0.95
23. An unbalanced wye connected loads on a 3 phase 4-wire system consist of Z1=10+j5, Z2=8+j4 and Z3=20+j0. The wye connected
generator load has balanced voltage to neutral to 120 volts. What is the wattmeter reading at Z1?
a. 720W b. 3312W c. 1440W d. 1152W
24. It is required to increase the power factor of a 750kW three phase balanced load from 70% lagging to 90% lagging. The line voltage
is 6900V, 60Hz. Specify the capacitor required to increase the power factor of this wye connected load in micro-farad per phase.
a. 20.45 b. 22.39 c. 22.39 d. 17.22
25. A 3phase 150hp, 480 V synchronous motor with rated efficiency of 90% is operating at rated load. It is in parallel with 3phase
balanced load of 400kW at 0.75 pf lagging. In order to improve to pf to 0.95 lagging, the excitation of the motor was increased.
Calculate the operating power factor of the motor.
a. 0.65 b. 0.38 c. 0.57 d, 0.82
26. A 7.5hp wound-rotor, 3phase induction motor draws a line current of 18.4A at 230V line when operating at rated output and
efficiency of 85%. Applying artificial neutral method of measuring 3-phase power using only one wattmeter, What is the wattmeter
reading?
a. 3179W b. 2126W c. 2119W d. 1590W
27. What is 1+A+A^2 in rectangular form?
a. 0.5+j0.866 b. -0.5-j0.866 c. 0+j1.732 d. 0
28. The three phase unbalanced current are: Ia=10cis(-30)A, ib=0 and Ic=10cis150A. Find the negative sequence current of phase b.
a. 8.66cis30 b. 5.77cis(-60) c. -5.77 d. 5.77cis60
29. Given the following phase current: Ia=5cis45p.u Ib=3cis(-90)p.u and Ic=3cis150p.u. Determine the positive sequence
symmetrical components of current for phase A.
a. 3.635cis276.8p.u b. 3.635cis36.8p.u c. 3.635cis156.8p.u d. 0.748cis65.3p.u
30. The line currents of unbalance delta connected load are: Ia=50cis0, Ib=40cis240 and Ic=45.8cis130.9. Determine the phase B
zero sequence component.
a. zero b. 45-j2.9 c. 16+j7.25 d. 5-j2.9