AC Machines Part 1

(Alternators)
Prepared by: Engr. Arvin P. Dela Roca

1. The number of cycles generated in an 8 pole alternator in one revolution is…

a. 4 b. 2 c. 6 d. 8
2. Determine the number of electrical degrees made per revolution for 16 pole alternator
a. 1440 b. 1600 c. 2880 d. 5760
3. A 3 phase wye connected 50 hz 2 pole synchronous machine has a stator with 2, 000 turns of
wire per phase. What rotor flux would be required to produce a terminal (line to line) voltage of 5
kV?
a. 8.4 mWb b. 6.5 mWb c. 5.2 mWb d. 7.8 mWb
4. If the alternator winding has a functional pitch of 4/5, What is pitch factor (kp)?
a. 0.966 b. 0.985 c. 0.96 d. 1.0
5. The winding of a 3 phase, 6 pole, 60 cycle alternator has 2/3 pitch. What is the chording angle?
a. 60o b. 30o c. 24o d. 120o
6. Determine the belt factor for a three phase winding in which there are 12 slots per pole.
a. 0.958 b. 0.952 c. 0.966 d. 0.975
7. A part of an alternator winding consist six coils in series, each coil having an emf of 10 volts
induced in it. The coil are placed in successive slots between each slot and the next, there is an
electrical displacement of 12o. The emf of the six coils in series are nearest to…
a. 36.84 V b. 14.75 V c. 5 V d.47.83 V
8. An alternator on open circuit generates 360 volts at 60 hz when the field current is 3.6 A
neglecting saturation, determine the generated emf at a frequency 40 hz and field current of 2.4
A.
a. 240 volts b. 160 volts c. 300 volts d. 180 volts
9. Calculate the voltage generated between lines of a wye connected 60 hz alternator with the
following data: slots = 144, poles = 8, turns per coil = 6, flux per pole = 1.8 x 10 6 lines, coil span =
slots 1-6 and winding being whole coiled.
a. 2,200 volts b. 1276 volts c. 635 volts d. 1,100 volts
10. The harmonic would be totally eliminated from the alternator emf using a fractional pitch of 4/5 is
a. 5th b. 4th c. 3rd d. 2nd
11. A three phase alternator has three armature coils each rated at 1, 200 volts and 120 volt
amperes. What is the KVA rating of this unit?
a. 442 b. 552 c. 432 d. 580
12. A generator is rated 100 MW, 13.8 kV and 90% power factor. The effective resistance to ohmic
resistance is 1.5. The ohmic resistance is obtained by connecting two terminal to a DC source.
The current and voltage are 87.6 A and 6 volts respectively. What is the resistance per phase?
a. 0.0513 ohms b. 0.4321 c. 0.0685 d. 0.9642
13. Synchronous impedance test is taken on a 3 phase generator. Under short circuit condition, the
currents in the three lines are 26.2 A, 23.7 A and 27.4 A. What current should be used for the
test?
a. 26.3 A b. 24.6 A c. 25.7 A d. 25.4 A
14. A 6.6 kV, 6 MVA, Y- connected, 3 phase alternator has an effective ac resistance of 0.6 ohm per
phase. The field current of 103 Amp produces an open circuit emf of 6,600 volt between
terminals. The field current required to produce rated full load current at short circuit condition is
82 Amp. What is the synchronous reactance?
a. 10 ohms b. 5.75 ohms c. 7.26 ohms d. 5.78 ohms
15. A 3 MVA, 50 Hz, 11 kV, 3- phase wye connected turbo- alternator when supplying 100 Amp at
zero pf leading has a line to line voltage of 12, 370 volts, when the load is removed, the terminal
voltage falls down to 11,000 volts. The effective resistance of the stator is 0.4 ohm per phase.
Find the percent (%) reactance of this alternator.
a. 15 % b. 10 % c. 16 % d. 20 %
16. A 3 phase, 1, 200 kVA, 6.6 kV, Y connected turbo alternator with effective resistance of 0.4 ohms
and reactance of 6 ohms per phase, delivers full load at 0.80 pf lagging and nominal rated
voltage and speed. The terminal voltage for the same excitation and load current at 0.80 pf
leading is nearest to….
a. 7, 900 V b. 7, 560 V c. 7, 360 V d. 4, 560 V
17. A 1, 500 kVA, 2300 V, 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
Amperes at 120 V from exciter equipment. The friction and windage loss is 15 kW, iron losses
are 35 kW and stray load loss is 1.5 kW. What is its efficiency at rated load and 80% pf lagging?
a. 89.7 % b. 92.3 % c. 93.4 % d. 95.3 %
18. Two 1,200 kVA AC generators running in parallel supplied the total loads of 1, 500 kW at 0.9 pf
lagging. One machine is loaded to 1, 000 kW at 0.75 lagging. The pf of the other machine
nearest to..
a. 0.96 leading b. 0.8 lagging c. 0.78 lagging d. 0.78 leading
19. Two alternators are driven by shunt motors. The shunt motors have speed loads drop
characteristics of 3% and 4 % respectively. The alternators are parallel and each carrying 50 kW.
There is no automatic speed load control. An additional 50 kW is switched on. What are the
resulting loads of the alternators assuming that the speed control of each is not adjusted?
a. 82.51 kW & 67.49 kW b. 78 kW & 75 kW
c. 78.57 kW & 71.43 kW d. 80.31 kW & 69.69 kW
20. A 100 MVA, 13.8 kV, 3 phase , Y connected alternator will have a per phase nominal impedance
of ……
a. 7.5 ohms b. 1.9 ohms c. 2.9 ohms d. 3.9 ohms
21. A 3 phase star connected, 1000 kVA, 6.6 kV turbo synchronous alternator with 20 % reactance
but of negligible resistance is supplying full load at 80% pf lagging to a large power system
(infinite bus bars). If the steam supply is suddenly cut- off. What is the new current? Neglecting
losses.
a. 77.58 A b. 57.58 A c. 47.58 A d. 67.58 A
22. A 3 phase star connected, 1000 kVA, 6.6 kV turbo synchronous reactance of 8.7 ohms per phase
but of negligible resistance. It is supplying 87.5 Amp at 80% pf lagging to a large power system
and the emf is increased by 25% (excitation was increased). What is the new value of alternator
current?
a. 87.5 A b. 190.82 A c. 177.2 A d. 70 A
23. A 3 phase, Y connected, A 3 phase star connected, 1000 kVA, 6.6 kV turbo synchronous
alternator with 20% reactance but of negligible resistance is supplying full load at 80% pf lagging
to a constant voltage and frequency bus bars. If the steam supply is gradually increased without
changing its excitation, the maximum load that the generator can supply before going out of
synchronism is nearest to….
a. 6, 600 kW b. 10, 000 kW c. 5, 600 kW d. 4, 800 kW
24. A 1, 000 kVA, 3.3 kV, 60 hz, 4 pole, 3 phase star connected wound rotor synchronous alternator
reactance of 1 ohm per phase and negligible armature resistance. When generator is connected
to an infinite bus, at certain load its open circuit emf when operating is 3490 V at power angle of 4
 degrees. If a disturbance causes the power angle to swing by 1 degree (mechanical). What is the
synchronizing power per phase?
a. 133.6 kW b. 148.5 kW
b. 190.8 kW d. 123.6 KW
25. A 10 MVA, 20 kV, 3 phase, 50 hz, 1500 rpm alternator in parallel with others much generator
capacity. The moment of inertia of the rotor is 2 x 10 5 kg- m2 and the synchronous reactance of
the machine is 40%, What is the natural time period of oscillation?
a. 5 sec b. 4 sec c. 2 sec d. 6 sec