1. The number of cycle generated in a 6 pole alternator in one revolution is ______.

a. 3
b. 6
c. 50
d. none of the these
2. Determine the number of electrical degrees made per revolution for an especialpurpose 80-pole alternator.
a. 28 000
b. 14 400
c. 7 200
d. 1 600
3. The disadvantage of a short-pitch coil is that _______.
a. harmonics are introduced
b. waveform becomes non-sinusoidal
c. voltage around the coil is reduced
d. both (a) and (b)
4. If the alternator winding has a fractional pitch of , the pitch factor (Kp) is ______.
a. 0.833
b. 0.951
c. 0.966
d. 0.972
5. A six pole, three phase AC generator has 72 slots, the coil span is 12. What is the
pitch factor?
a. 1.00
b. 0.985
c. 0.939
d. 0.966
6. A part of an alternator winding consist sic (6) coils in series, each coil having an
emf of 10 volts induced in it. The coils are placed in successive slots and between
each slot and the next, there is an electrical displacement of 30. The emf of the
six coils in series is nearest to ______.
a. 36.84 Volts
b. 38.64 Volts
c. 60 Volts
d. 90 Volts
7. The voltage generated across one inductor of a 3 alternator is 6 volts. There are
120 slots and 4 turns in every coil. The coil pitch is short by 2 slots, number of
poles is 10 and frequency is 60 Hz. The armature winding correction factor of the
alternator is nearest to ______.
a. 0.925
b. 0.987
c. 0.967
d. 0.957
8. A 144 slots stator has a whole-coiled, 12 pole, three phase winding. What is the
number of coils per phase and per group respectively?
a. 48 & 4
b. 24 & 4
c. 12 & 4
d. 36 & 4
9. Calculate the voltage generated between lines of a wye-connected alternator
driven at 900 rpm with the following data: slots = 144, poles = 8, turns per coil =
6, flux per pole = 1.8 x 106 lines, coil span = slots 1-6 and winding being wholecoiled.
a. 1276 Volts
b. 2 200 Volts
c. 635 Volts
d. 1 100 Volts
10. A 3, 60 Hz, 6 pole alternator has an air gap flux which is sinusoidally
distributed. The stator has 5 slots per pole per phase and each slots contains 4
conductors arranged in two layers. The coil pitch is 12 slots with normal
excitation and rated speed, the voltage induced per conductor is 25 Volts. The
open-circuit emf of the Y-connected machine between lines when all conductors
per phase are connected in series is nearest to _______.

a. 2730 Volts

b. 2370 Volts

c. 4730 Volts

d. 4370 Volts

11. A 3, 1 200 KVA, 6.6 kVolt, wye-connected turbo alternator with effective
resistance of 0.4 ohm and reactance of 6 ohm per phase delivers full-load at 0.80
pf. Lagging and normal rated voltage and speed. The terminal voltage for the
same excitation and load current of 0.80 pf. Leading is nearest to _____.
a. 7 560 Volts
b. 7 900 Volts
c. 4560 Volts
d. 7 360 Volts
12. A 1500 KVA, 2300 kVolt, 3-phase, 8 pole, 60 Hz alternator has an ohmic
resistance between terminals of 0.08 ohm. The ratio of effective to ohmic
resistance is 1.5. The field takes 70 Amp at 120 Volts from exciter equipment. The
Friction and Windage loss is 15kW and iron losses are 35 kW, stray loss 1.5 kW.
What is its efficiency at rated load and 80% p.f. lagging?
a. 93.4%
b. 92.3%
c. 89.7%
d. 95.3%
13. Out of the following condition, the one which does not have to be met by
alternator working in parallel is
a. terminal voltage of each machine must be the same
b. the machines must have the same phase rotation
c. the machines must operate at the same frequency
d. the machine must have the same rating
14. Two identical 2000 kVA alternator operates in parallel. The governor of the first
machine is such that the frequency drops uniformly from 50 Hz at no-load to 48
Hz at full-load. The corresponding uniform speed drop of the second machine is
50 Hz to 45.7 Hz. What is the maximum unity p.f. load that an be delivered
without overloading either machine?
a. 3600 kW
b. 6300 kW
c. 4000 kW
d. 1723 Kw
15. A 3, Y-connected, 1000 kVA, 6.6 kVolt turbo alternator has a synchronous
reactance of 8.7 ohms per phase but negligible resistance. It is supplying 87.5 Amp
ay 80 % p.f. lagging to a large power system and the emf is increased by 25%
(excitation was increased) the new value of armature current and p.f. are ____
respectively.
a. 182.48 & 0.476 lagging
b.175.31 Amp & 0.567 lagging
c. 190.82 Amp & 0.367 lagging
d. 181.48 Amp & 0.467 lagging
16. A 3, star-connected, 1000 kVA, 6.6 Volt turbo-synchronous alternator with 20%
reactance but of negligible resistance is supplying full-load at 80% p.f. lagging to
a large power system( infinite bus-bars) If steam supply is suddenly cut off.
What is the new current? Neglecting losses.
a. 77.58 Amp
b. 57.58 Amp
c. 47.58 Amp
d. 67.58 Amp
17. A 3, Y-connected, 1000 kVA, 6.6 Volt alternator has a reactance of 8.7 ohms per
phase but negligible resistance. It is supplying full-load at 0.80 p.f. lagging to a
constant voltage & frequency bus-bars. If steam supply is gradually increased

without changing the excitation, the maximum load that the generator can supply
before going out of synchronism is nearest to _____.
a. 6 600 kW
b. 1000 kW
c. 5 600 kW
d. 800 kW
18. A 1000 kVA, 3.3 kVolt , 60 Hz, 4 pole 3 star-connected, wound-rotor
synchronous alternator reactance of I ohm per phase and negligible armature
resistance. The generator is operating at full-load, 0.80 p.f. lagging on an infinite
bus. If a disturbance causes the power angle to swing by 1 (mechanical). What is
the synchronizing power per phase and synchronizing torque respectively?
a. 133.6 kW and 708.9 N-m
b. 148.5 kW and 508 N-m
c. 190.8 kW and 367.5 N-m
d. None of these
19. A 100 MVA, 2 pole 60 Hz alternator has a moment of inertia 50 x 103 kg-m2.
What is the energy stored in the rotor at rated speed?
a. 5533 MJ
b. 3355 MJ
c. 3553 MJ
d. 5335 MJ
20. The imaginary or fictitious part of synchronous reactance on alternator takes care
of _______
a. inductive reactance
b. armature reaction
c. leakage reactance
d. coper losses
21. If the load of an isolated alternator increased without increasing the power input
to the prime mover. The alternator
a. will slow down
b. speed up
c. voltage increases
d. field current will increase
22. The power factor of an alternator is 75%. The operator is ordered to increase the
power factor to 80%. What shall we do?
a. increase the voltage
b. operate the governor
c. increase the excitation
d. decrease the excitation
23. The positive , negative and zero sequence reactance of a 3-phase, 13.8 kV,
10MVA, 60 Hz alternator are 0.08, 0.07, 0.05 p.u. respectively. Determine the
fault current deliver for a double line-to-ground fault, assuming no current flows
in the network other than due to the fault and its neutral solidly ground.
a. 6700 Amp
b. 7600 Amp
c. 5800 Amp
d. 8500 Amp
24. The per unit reactance of a synchronous generator are X= 1.0, X= 0.35, X=
0.25. The alternator supplies a 1.0 per unit load at 0.80 power factor lagging.
Calculate the voltage behind the sub-transient reactance.
a. 1.79 pu
b. 1.24 pu
c. 1.17 pu
d. none of these
25. The armature of an alternator will be cross magnetizing (or minimum) if the p.f.
of the load is _____.
a. 0 lagging
b. 0 leading
c. unity
d. 0.866
leading

26. Damper or Amortisseur windings are used in alternators to ______.

a. achieve synchronism
b. reduced windage losses
c. prevent hunting
d. start up
27. The driving power from the prime mover driving an alternator is lost but the
alternator remains connected to the supply (i.e. its power circuit breaker failed to
trip) and its excitation is on. The alternator will_____
a. behaves as an inductor motor
b. stop and get burnt
c. behave as synchronous motor but will rotate in reverse or opposite
direction
d. behaves as synchronous motor and rotate at same direction
28. In power failures, relays operate in most stand-by power installations when
normal phase voltage falls to ____%
a. 95
b. 80
c. 70
d. 50
29. Re-transfer to normal supply occurs in automatic stand-by systems when voltage
in all phase of the normal supply becomes ______ percent or more.
a. 75
b. 85
c. 90
d. 95
30. Two-3 synchronous generators connected in parallel are driven by waterwheel
whose speed-load characteristics are as follows: The speed of the first falls
uniformly from 624 rpm at no-load to 600 rpm at full-load at 1000 Kw. The speed
of the second waterwheel falls uniformly from 630 rpm at no-load to 600 rpm at
1000 Kw loading. The output of each generators when the load is 1250 KVA, 0.80
p.f. are nearest to _____.
a. 500 kW each
b. 445 kW and 555 kW
c. 667 kW and 333 kW
d. none of these
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