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EEET2263 – Tutorial #5, DC Motors - SOLUTION
127V under no load conditions. The armature resistance is 2. If the machine then delivers a
current of 12 A into a load, calculate
(a) The terminal voltage
ANS: Va Ea IaRa 127 12 2 103 A
(b) The power dissipated in the armature winding
2 Parm IaRa W
(c) The braking torque exerted by the generator on the prime mover.
ANS: Pmech EaIa 127 12 1524 W 10. 4 2 140060
mech mech
T Nm
output voltage if
(a) the speed is increased by 20%?
ANS: Va 127 1. 2 152. 4 V
(b) the direction of rotation is reversed?
ANS: Va 127 V (sign reverses)
(c) the exciting current in the field winding is increased by 10%?
ANS: Va 127 1. 1 139. 7 V (assuming linear magnetic field relationship with I (^) f )
(d) the polarity of the field winding is reversed?
ANS: Va 127 V (sign reverses)
The shunt field winding has a resistance of 60, and the rated field winding current is 5A.
The resistive loss in the armature winding is 5.52kW at full rated current. Calculate
(a) the rated armature current.
a
a a rated V
(b) the total losses in the machine at full rated current.
2 Ploss Pa Pf W
(c) the resistive losses in the armature when the machine is operating at half rated
current.
Pa RaIa W (losses reduce to a quarter for half current)
(d) the torque required from the prime mover to drive the generator at 1750 rpm at half
rated current.
ANS: Pmech Po Pa Pf 120 1. 380 1. 500 122. 9 kW (assume generator still
supplies field losses despite being separately excited. Then
mech mech
T Nm
0.15, calculate
(a) the internal backemf across the armature
ANS: Ea Va RaIa 230 60 0. 15 221 V
(b) the power supplied to the armature
ANS: Parm VaIa 230 60 13. 8 kW
(c) the mechanical output power developed by the motor
ANS: 13800 0. 15 60 13. 26
2 2 Pmech Parm RaIa kW
(a) the initial starting current if the motor is directly connected across the 230V supply
before it starts moving
a
a a (^) R
(b) the value of a resistor that would need to be connected in series with the armature to
limit the initial current to 115A.
tot ^ a
R Rext 2 0. 15 1. 85
connected to a 115V dc source. Calculate the armature voltage required to make the motor run
(a) at 1500 rpm under no load
Va 115 V
(b) at 100 rpm under no load
Va 115 V
(a) the total losses and efficiency at full load and rated speed
ANS: Pin VaIa 230 860 197. 8 kW 91. 0
in
mech P
(b) the approximate shunt field exciting current if the shunt field causes 20% of the total
losses (assume the field winding is directly connected to the 230V supply)
ANS: Ploss 197800 180000 17. 8 kW Pf 3560 W 15. 5 230
I (^) f A
(c) the value of the armature resistance and the backemf, if 50% of the total losses at full-load are attributable to the armature resistance
ANS: Pa 8900 W 0. 012 860
Ra 2 Ea 230 0. 012 860 219. 7 V