Power System Stability
2.1 The study of steady state stability is concerned with the upper limit
machine loadings before losing synchronism when the load is gradol of
y
increased (b) False
a)True
2.2 When there is a sudden disturbance in the power system, rotor speed, rot
angular difference and power transfer undergo fast changes whose
magnitude depends upon the severity of disturbance, it comes under the
study of
(a) dynamic stability 6 ) transient stability
(c) steady state stability (d) none of the above
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OP
Whens synchronizing coef+icient is positive, the torque angle
increases on small power increment
and the synchronism is soon lost
(a) True False
4 For transient stability analysis, as long as equal area criterion is
satisfied,
the maximum angle to which rotor angle can oscillate is
(a) 90° (b) 45°
greater than 90 (d) less than 90°
5 For a turbo alternator of 100 MVA, the inertia constant is 5. The value of
H for a alternator of 50 MVA is
(a) 3 b) 12
(d) 15
6By using the method of equal area criterion, we get the information about
(a) swing curves
(c) relative stability
(b) stability region
d
absolute stability
7 For a power system we can
improve the steady state stability limit by
(a) single pole switching
(b)reducing fault clearing time
using double circuit line instead of single circuit line
(d) decreasing the generator inertia
Automatic Generation and
Voltage Control
8.1
Permissible change in power
a0.5 Hz frequency is
(c) +5 Hz (b) 1 Hz
(d) + 10 Hz
8.2 Excitation voltage control is fast
k True acting
8.3 A control (b) False
area constitutes coherent group of
ka) True generators
(b) False
8.4 Transients in excitation
control vanish very slowly
(a) True A) False
8.5 Fill up the blanks
8.6 K
L.
Turbine
X
time constant lies in the range
is
Ky nearly equal to 1
of to S
(6) Ks X K7 nearly equal to 0
(c) X Ky cqual to oo
(d) Ks X K7 any value
8.7 Most of the Rehcat units have a Generation Rate around
a 3% b) 10%
(c) 0% (d)
8.8 Zero steady state error can be achieved
by using Pl controller
Ja) True (6) False
8.9 In central AGC of a given control area, the change in
(error) in frequenc-
(a Area control error (b) Volume control error
(c) Non linear control error (d) Optimal control error
8.10 Laplace transtorm ot a impulse function is
(a) zero
one
(c) (d) undefined
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For a fault in a
power system, the
(a) reactive power limit tepm critical clearing time is related to
6) transient stability limit
(c) short circuit current limit (d) steady state
A shunt reactor is added at the stability limit
infinite bus, which is fed by the
synchronous generator. The stability limit will
(a) decrease (b) increase
C ) remains the same (d) any of the above
10 For stable operation, the normal value of ô normally lies between
a O to 30° (b) 0 to 90
(c) 0 to
60 (d) 0 to 180
Load Flow Studies
l For 1load flow solution what are
the quantities
P and Q specified at load bus are
(a) P and | VI
(c) P and S (d) Q and | VI
2Load Flow study 1s carried out for
(a) Load frequency control
(c) Stability studies System planning
(d) Fault calculations
.3 In the solution of load flow
cquation, Newton-Raphson (NR) method
superior to the GausS-Seidel (GS) method, because the
is
a Convergence characteristic of the NR methods are not
selection of slack bus. affected by
(b) Number of iterations required is not
in the NR method. independent of the size of system
(c) Time taken to perform one iteration in the NR
method is less when
compared to the time taken in the GS method.
(d) Number of iteration required in the NR
method is more than
compared to that in the GS method.
6.4 At slack bus, which one of
following conbinations of variables 1s
specified?
(b) P,Q
(c) P,| V (d) Q.1 VI
6.5 Normally ZBus matrix is a
(a) Null matrix (b) Sparse matrix
kefFull matrix (d) Unity matrix
6.6 In loadflow analysis, the load at bus is represented as
(a) a voltage dependent impedance at bus.
tby constant real and reactive powers drawn from bus.
(c) a constant impedance connected at bus.
(d) a constant current drawn from the bus.
6.7 In Gauss-Seidel method of power flow problem, the number of iteratioas
may be reduced if the correction in voltage al each bus is muluplicd by
(a) Gauss Constant A Acceleration constant
(c) Blocking factor (d) Deceleration constant
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6.8 In load flow studies PV bus is treated as PQ bus when
(a) phase angle become high
limit
reactive power goes beyond
(c) voltage at the bus become high
(d) any of the above
6.9 In a power system the maximum number of buses are
(a)pV buses (b) Slack buses
(d) Any above
of the
PO buses
.10 For accurate load flow calculations on large power systems, the bes
methed is
U NR method (b) GS mcthod
(c) Decoupled method (d) FDLR
