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Power System III CA

The document contains a practice exam for an Electrical Power Systems course. It has two main sections: (1) Multiple choice questions about circuit breakers, relays, and protection devices; and (2) Short answer and problem solving questions about protective relays, power system protection, and a sample fault calculation problem.

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Power System III CA

The document contains a practice exam for an Electrical Power Systems course. It has two main sections: (1) Multiple choice questions about circuit breakers, relays, and protection devices; and (2) Short answer and problem solving questions about protective relays, power system protection, and a sample fault calculation problem.

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(a) Water

FOMIC POLYTECHNIC (b) Oil


Department: ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING (c) Air
(Power Systems) (d) SF6
Semester: Second semester CA Name of Lecturer: Engr
2021/2022 Ebunle Rene 4. With which of the following, a circuit breaker must be
Course Title: Electrical -Power Systems Date: equipped for remote operation ?
III Starting Time: (a) Inverse time trip
Course Code: EEE 402 Ending Time: (b) Time-delay trip
Crédit Value: 4 Time Allowed: 2 hours (c) Shunt trip
Total Score: 30 (d) None of the above
Exam Venue: Douala Campus
(e) All of the above
 Instruction(s): Answer all questions. You are reminded of the
orderly presentation of your answers 5. Fault diverters are basically
(a) fuses
(b) relays
Section A: MCQs (12mks)
(c) fast switches
(d) circuit breakers
1. The main function of a fuse is to
(a) protect the line 5. A thermal protection switch can protect against
(b) open the circuit (a) short-circuit
(c) protect the appliance (b) temperature
(d) prevent excessive currents (c) overload
(e) none of the above (d) overvoltage

2. On which of the following routine tests are conducted ? 7. Arc in a circuit behaves as
(a) Oil circuit breakers (a) a capackive reactance
(b) Air blast circuit breakers (b) an inductive reactance
(c) Minimum oil circuit breakers (c) a resistance increasing with voltage rise across the arc
(d) All of the above (d) a resistance decreasing with voltage rise across the arc

3. Which of the following medium is employed for the 8. Thermal circuit breaker has
extinction of arc in air circuit breaker? (a) delayed trip action

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(b) instantaneous trip action Section B: Technology (8mks)
(c) both of the above
(d) none of the above
1. What is protective relay?
2. What are the different relays that employed for
9. Relays can be designed to respond to changes in
protection of apparatus and transmission lines?
(a) resistance, reactance or impedance
3. How the electrical power system protection is
(b) voltage and current
divided?
(c) light intensity
4. How relays are connected in the power system?
(d) temperature
5. What are different types of principles of operation
(e) all above
of electro-mechaical relays?
10. Overload relays are of…… type.
Section B: Problem Solving (10mks)
(a) induction
(b) solid state
(c) thermal Balanced Fault problem
(d) electromagnetic
(e) all above
A synchronous generator and a synchronous motor each rated
11. Thermal overload relays are used to protect the motor 20MVA, 12.66KV having 15% reactance are connected through
against over current due to transformers and a line as shown in fig. the transformers are
(a) short-circuits rated 20MVA,12.66/66KV and 66/12.66KV with leakage
(b) heavy loads reactance of 10% each. The line has a reactance of 8% on base
(c) grounds of 20MVA, 66 KV. The motor is drawing 10MW at 0.8 leading
(d) all of the above power factors and a terminal voltage 11KV when symmetrical
three-phase fault occurs at the terminals of the motor.
12. Magnetic circuit breaker has ______ trip action.
Determine the generator and motor currents without fault in the
(a) delayed line. Also determine the fault current at the motor end.
(b) instantaneous
All reactances are rated on a base of 20MVA
(c) both of the above
(d) none of the above

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