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#21📜 EE Pre-Board August 2012📘 PowerhouseEasy
Porcelain insulators are protected against creepage of surge current by the use of _.
ASurge gaps
BArcing Horns
CGround Conductors
Dsurge arrester
#22📜 EE Pre-Board August 2012📘 PowerhouseHard
A uniform 2 wire dc distributor 500 meters long is loaded with 0.4 ampere/meter and is fed at one end. If the maximum permissible voltage drop per wire is not to exceed 10 V, find the cross-sectional area of the distributor. Take \(\rho = 1.7 \times 10^{-6}\) Ω-cm.
A1.0 cm²
B1.2 cm²
C1.5 cm²
D1.7 cm²
#23📜 EE Pre-Board August 2012📘 PowerhouseEasy
A 100 km transmission line has a 1000 ohms shunt capacitive reactance. What is the capacitive reactance per km?
A1,000 Ω
B10 Ω
C100,000 Ω
D100 Ω
#24📜 EE Pre-Board August 2012📘 PowerhouseEasy
In what year was the first 500 kV line in the world became operational?
A1936
B1953
C1965
D1969
#25📜 EE Pre-Board March 2013📘 PowerhouseHard
A 115 kV three-phase transposed transmission line is composed of 2-ACSR 336,400 cmil, 30/7 Oriole conductors per phase with horizontal configuration: \(D_{12}\) = 7 ft, \(D_{23}\) = 7 ft and \(D_{13}\) = 14 ft. The line spacing is measured from the center of the bundled conductors. The distance between the conductors of the bundle is 6 inches. The conductors have a diameter of 0.741 inch and GMR of 0.02255 ft. Find the capacitance per phase for 20 km of the line in μF.
A0.13
B0.27189
C0.2889
D0.2609
#26📜 EE Pre-Board March 2013📘 PowerhouseMedium
A 15MW, 132 kV, 80%power factor three phase load is to be served by a transmission line having conductors whose resistance is 0.5 ohm/km. If the losses on the line shall not exceed 4.5%, how long must this line be?
A66 km
B68 km
C70 km
D75 km
#27📜 EE Pre-Board March 2013📘 PowerhouseEasy
In transmission voltage levels, 765kV is categorized as
AHigh Voltage
BExtra High Voltage
CUltra High Voltage
DMedium Voltage
#28📜 EE Pre-Board March 2013📘 PowerhouseHard
It is desired to deliver 4,000 kW, three-phase at a distance of 25 miles. The load voltage being 33 kV, 60 Hz and the power factor of the load being 85% lagging. The reactance of the line per phase is 0.692 ohm per mile. The line loss is 10% of the power delivered. What is the voltage regulation of the line?
A11.2%
B12.3%
C13.2%
D14.8%
#29📜 EE Pre-Board March 2013📘 PowerhouseEasy
Surge impedance of transmission line is given by
A\(\sqrt{C/L}\)
B\(\sqrt{CL}\)
C\(\sqrt{L/C}\)
D\(1/\sqrt{LC}\)
#30📜 EE Pre-Board March 2013📘 PowerhouseHard
A three-phase, 60 Hz, transmission line has its conductors arranged in a triangular configuration so that the two distances between conductors are 7.62 m and the third is 12.8 m. The conductors are Dove with GMR of 0.0314 ft. If the line is 60km long, what is the inductive reactance of the line?
A38.73 Ω
B37.18 Ω
C30.98 Ω
D33.57 Ω
#31📜 EE Pre-Board March 2013📘 PowerhouseEasy
What is the equivalent of the constant C in the ABCD constants for the nominal-T circuit of a transmission line for which R = 10 Ω, \(X_L\) = 20 Ω and Y = 400 μS for each phase?
A\(0.996\angle 0.115^\circ\)
B\(22.25\angle 63.45^\circ\)
C10 + j20
D\(4 \times 10^{-4}\angle 90^\circ\)
#32📜 EE Pre-Board March 2013📘 PowerhouseMedium
A certain station in Luzon has 36 kV, 3-phase, is to supply 12 MW load at 30 kV and 0.8 p.f. lagging over a 3-phase transmission line. Find the resistance of the line if the length of the transmission line is 4,000 meters and the efficiency is 90%.
A6.31 Ω
B3.56 Ω
C4.45 Ω
D5.33 Ω
#33📜 EE Pre-Board August 2013📘 PowerhouseHard
An unconventional conductor consists of three strands arranged vertically. Find the GMR in terms of the radius r of an individual strand.
A1.564 r
B1.764 r
C1.704 r
D1.89 r
#34📜 EE Pre-Board August 2013📘 PowerhouseEasy
A string insulator has 4 units. The voltage across the bottom most unit is 30% of the total voltage. What is the string efficiency?
A30%
B60%
C75%
D83.33%
#35📜 EE Pre-Board August 2013📘 PowerhouseMedium
A transmission line has a total series impedance of 40 + j125 ohms and a total shunt admittance of \(10^{-3}\) mho. Determine the constant D of the line.
Aj0.001
B0.9376 + j0.0196
C1 + j0.0656
D0.001 + j0.0656
#36📜 EE Pre-Board August 2013📘 PowerhouseMedium
The capacitance between any two conductors of a three-phase, three-conductor cable is 2 μF. The cable operates at 11 kV line voltage and 50 Hz. What is the charging current through the cable capacitance?
A7.98 A
B3.99 A
C6.91 A
D13.82 A
#37📜 EE Pre-Board August 2013📘 PowerhouseHard
A 40 mile, 60 cycle single-phase line consists of two 000 conductors spaced 5 ft apart. Determine the charging current if the voltage between wires is 33 kV. The diameter of 000 conductors is 410 mils.
A3.92 A
B2.92 A
C1.92 A
D4.92 A
#38📜 EE Pre-Board August 2013📘 PowerhouseEasy
Bundled conductors in EHZ transmission lines results to
Areduce capacitance
Bincrease inductance
Cincrease capacitance
Dincrease resistance
#39📜 EE Pre-Board August 2013📘 PowerhouseHard
A 170-mile, 230-kV, 60-HZ, three-phase single-circuit transmission line uses, a triangular arrangement with 20 ft. 20 ft, and 36 ft spacing respectively. If the line conductors have a GMR of 0.0217 ft, determine the capacitive susceptance to neutral per mile.
A\(4.81 \times 10^{-6}\) mho per mile
B\(12.74 \times 10^{-6}\) mho per mile
C\(7.92 \times 10^{-5}\) mho per mile
D\(2.47 \times 10^{-6}\) mho per mile
#40📜 EE Pre-Board August 2013📘 PowerhouseEasy
The surge impedance of an underground cable is around
A50 Ω
B2 Ω
C400Ω
D100 Ω

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