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MARWADI EDUCATION FOUNDATION’S GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Reference Question Bank


Design of AC Machine
1. How are the synchronous machines classified according to the construction?
2. Explain all factors for choice of specific electric and magnetic loading for designing of
alternator.
3. Explain the terms “critical speed” and “run-away speed” with reference to synchronous
machine.
4. Explain the different methods for elimination of harmonics in synchronous machine.
5. Explain importance of damper winding in synchronous machine and drive the total
MMF required for damper winding.
6. What are the factors to be considered for selection of armature slots?
7. Explain SCR and its effect on synchronous machine performance.
8. Explain steps of design of field winding of alternator.
9. Explain evaluation of Direct and Quadrature axis reactance of Alternator.
10. What is Overload capacity? Comment on selection of values of overload capacity of
induction motor. Discuss effect on maximum power factor and overload capacity of I.M
for estimating length of air-gap.
11. Explain the effect of skewing the rotor slots in a squirrel cage induction motor affecting
power factor and overload capacity of machine.
12. Discuss how the magnetizing current can be estimated from the design data in a three-
phase induction motor.
13. Explain the deciding factor for stator slots and state the equation for 1) Area of stator
slots 2) Stator winding resistance 3) Stator copper losses.
14. Explain methods of improving starting torque of Induction Motor.
15. Which factor influence the power factor of induction motor? What is dispersion
coefficient?
16. Explain effect of dispersion coefficient on maximum power factor of induction
machine.
17. Explain the different starting methods of single-phase induction motor.
18. Show that the output for a single-phase induction motor is 2/3rd of that for a three-phase
equivalent induction motor for the same values of D 2L.
19. Explain design procedure for stator of single-phase Induction Motor in terms of winding
distribution factor, number of turns and conductors of running winding.
20. Explain design of rotor of single-phase induction motor.
21. Explain saturation factor for designing of single-phase induction motor.

Prof. Anurag Gupta (Department of Electrical Engineering)


MARWADI EDUCATION FOUNDATION’S GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

22. State the formulae used for calculation of Leakage reactance in single phase induction
motor.
23. State the procedure for designing an auxiliary winding in case of resistance split phase
induction motor
24. Explain the designing of capacitance value for maximum starting torque and maximum
starting torque per ampere in case of capacitor start single phase induction motor.
25. Explain the method to calculate pull out torque in designing of single-phase induction
motor.
26. A 370 W, 230 V, 50 Hz, 4 pole single phase capacitor start induction motor has the
following design data: The full load efficiency and power factor should not be less than
0.65 and 0.62 respectively. The starting torque should be about 300 percent of full load
torque with starting current not more than 21 A. Take flux per pole 2.70 mWb, current
density 4 A/mm2 and winding factor for main winding (KWm) = 0.8.
Determine (a) main dimensions (b) number of turns of main winding (b) number of turns
in each coil for sinusoidal distribution.
27. A 15 kW, 400 V 3 phase 50 Hz, 6 pole induction motor has a diameter of 0.3 m and
the length of core 0.12 m. The number of slots is 72 with 20 conductors per slot. The
stator is delta connected. Calculate the value of magnetizing current per phase if the
length of air gap is 0.55 m. The gap contraction factor is 1.2. Assume the mmf required
for the iron parts to be 35 percent of the air gap mmf. Take coil span = 11 slots.
Winding factor 0.955.
28. An 11kW, 3 phases, 6 poles, 50 Hz, 220V star connected induction motor has 54 slots
each containing 9 conductors. Calculate the values of bar and end ring currents. The
number of rotor bars is 64. The machine efficiency of 0.86 and a power factor of 0.85.
The rotor mmf may be assumed of 85 percent of stator mmf. If current density is 5
A/mm2.Find area of rotor bar and area of end ring
29. A 100 hp, 50 Hz, 8 poles, 500 V slip ring induction motor with 3 phase star connected
stator winding: Turns per phase for stator is 64 and for rotor 35. Resistance per phase:
Stator 0.062 Ω; Rotor 0.019 Ω. Reactance per phase: Stator 0.21Ω; Rotor 0.019Ω.
Magnetizing current 35 A/phase. Iron loss 1495W. Friction and Windage loss 760 W.
Draw circle diagram and determine the line current, efficiency, power factor and slip at
full load and half load conditions. Also find Maximum output and pull-out torque.
30. Determine the main dimensions and Turns per phase (Tph) of a 3000 KVA, 6.6KV,
50Hz, 187 r.p.m., 3-phase, star connected alternator. Assume average flux density=0.58
Wb/m2, ac=35000. Assume pole arc/pole pitch=0.7.
31. Determine main dimensions and turns per phase of a 2 MVA, 11 kV, 50 Hz, 24 pole
three phase star connected alternator. Assume average gap density of 0.55 wb/m2, ac =
30000, winding factor 0.955. Use L/τ ratio of 1.25.

Prof. Anurag Gupta (Department of Electrical Engineering)


MARWADI EDUCATION FOUNDATION’S GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

32. Calculate the diameter, core length, no of conductors of the stator, size of conductor, no.
of stator slots of 30 MVA, 11KV, 3000 r.p.m., 50 Hz, star connected Turbo alternator.
Assume Bav = 0.55 Wb/m2, ac=55000 A/m, Kw = 0.955, peripheral velocity= 160 m/s.
33. The field coil of a salient pole alternator is wound with a single layer winding of bore
copper strip 30 mm deep, with separating insulation 0.15 mm thick. Determine a
suitable winding length, number of turns and thickness of conductor to develop
a MMF of 12000A with a potential difference of 5 V per coil and with a loss of 1200
W/m2 of total coil surface. The mean length of turn is 1.2 m. the resistivity is 0.021 Ώ
/m and mm2.

Prof. Anurag Gupta (Department of Electrical Engineering)

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