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Problem Set DC Generators

The document contains 10 problems related to DC generators. Problem 1 asks to calculate the speed and rated output of a lap-wound DC generator given specifications of its poles, conductors, current capacity, and flux. Problem 2 asks to find the armature resistance of a shunt generator given its voltage, current, field resistance, and efficiency at full load along with constant losses. Problem 3 asks to calculate various parameters like generated EMF, copper losses, output power, and efficiency of a short-shunt compound generator operating at a given current and voltage.

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Problem Set DC Generators

The document contains 10 problems related to DC generators. Problem 1 asks to calculate the speed and rated output of a lap-wound DC generator given specifications of its poles, conductors, current capacity, and flux. Problem 2 asks to find the armature resistance of a shunt generator given its voltage, current, field resistance, and efficiency at full load along with constant losses. Problem 3 asks to calculate various parameters like generated EMF, copper losses, output power, and efficiency of a short-shunt compound generator operating at a given current and voltage.

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Problem Set 4

DC Generators
1. An 8-pole lap-wound d.c. generator has 120 slots having 4 conductors per slot. If each conductor
can carry 250 A and if flux/pole is 0.05 Wb, calculate the speed of the generator for giving 240 V
on open circuit. If the voltage drops to 220 V on full load, find the rated output of the machine.
2. A 110-V shunt generator has a full-load current of 100 A, shunt field resistance of 55 Ω and
constant losses of 500 W. If F.L. efficiency is 88%, find armature resistance. Assuming voltage to
be constant at 110 V, calculate the efficiency at half F.L. And at 50% overload. Find the load current.
3. A short-shunt compound d.c. Generator supplies a current of 100 A at a voltage of 220 V. If the
resistance of the shunt field is 50 Ω, of the series field 0.025 Ω, of the armature 0.05 Ω, the total
brush drop is 2 V and the iron and friction losses amount to 1 kW, find (a) the generated e.m.f. (b)
the copper losses (c) the output power of the prime-mover driving the generator and (d) the
generator efficiency.
4. A 20 kW, 440-V, short-shunt, compound d.c. generator has a full-load efficiency of 87%. If the
resistance of the armature and interpoles is 0.4 Ω and that of the series and shunt fields 0.25 Ω
and 240 Ω respectively, calculate the combined bearing friction, windage and core-loss of the
machine.
5. A shunt generator has an output of 22 kW at a terminal voltage of 220 V. armature and shunt field
resistances are 0.05 ohm and 44 ohms, respectively. If the copper loss is equal to the core, friction
and windage losses at this load, the over-all efficiency of this generator is nearest to
6. The output of a shunt generator is 66 A at 100 volts. Armature and field resistances are,
respectively, 0.04 ohm and 25 ohms. If the efficiency at this load is 88%, determine the core and
friction losses
7. A short shunt compound generator supplies a load of 10 kW at 200 V through a pair of feeder and
series field resistance 0.10 ohm. Armature resistance, shunt field resistance and series field
resistance are 0.01 ohm, 52.2 ohms and 0.10 ohm, respectively. If the core friction and windage
losses amount to 631 watts, the BHP of the driving engine is nearest to
8. The hysteresis losses and eddy current losses in a dc machine running at 1000 rpm are 250 W and
100 W respectively. If the flux remains constant, at what speed will the total iron loss be halved?
9. The hysteresis losses and eddy current losses in a dc machine running at 1000 rpm are 250 W and
100 W respectively. If the flux remains constant, at what speed will the total iron loss be halved?
10. A 1500 kW, 550-V, 16 pole generator runs at 150 rev. per min. What must be the useful flux if
there are 2500 conductors lap-connected and the full-load copper losses are 25 kW? Calculate
the area of the pole shoe if the gap density has a uniform value of 0.9 wb/m2 and find the no-
load terminal voltage, neglecting armature reaction and change in speed.

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