EE 332: Power Systems

Assignment: Performance analysis of transmission line 1. A series capacitor bank having a reactance of 146.6 ohms is to be installed at the midpoint of 3-phase transmission line of 300-mi long and serves a load of 400MVA, with 0.8 lagging power factor at 345kV. The ABCD constants for each 150-mi portion of the line are

A D 0.95340.3o B 90.3384.1o C 0.00101490.1o siemens

(a) Determine the equivalent ABCD constants for the cascade combination of the line-capacitor-line. (b) Using these ABCD constants determine the sending-end line-to-neutral voltage, the sending end current, and the percent voltage drop at full load. (c) Determine the receiving-end line-to-neutral voltage at no-load, the sending end current at no-load, and the voltage regulation. 2. Show that if the receiving end of a long transmission line is terminated by characteristic impedance Z C , then impedance seen at sending end of the line is also Z C irrespective of the length of the line. 3. A 3-phase , 50 Hz and 250 km long line whose resistance per km is 0.015 ohms and inductance per kilometer is 0.8 mH and capacitance per kilometer is 0.01 F. Determine the network constants of a long line while neglecting the conductance of the line. Using real or complex angle method. 4. A 138 kV, 200 MVA, 60 Hz, three-phase, power transmission line is 100 km long, and has the following characteristics: r = 0.103 /km, x = 0.525 /km, y = 3.3 10-6 S/km (a) What is per phase series impedance and shunt admittance of this transmission line? (b) Should it be modeled as a short, medium, or long transmission line? (c) Calculate the ABCD constants of this transmission line. (d) Sketch the phasor diagram of this transmission line when the line is supplying rated voltage and apparent power at a 0.90 power factor lagging. (e) Calculate the sending end voltage if the line is supplying rated voltage and apparent power at 0.90PF lagging. (f) What is the voltage regulation of the transmission line for the conditions in (e)? (g) What is the efficiency of the transmission line for the conditions in (e)? 5. A transmission line is connected between two infinite busses, as shown in Figure 2. Answer the following questions about this transmission line.

Infinite Bus 1

Infinite Bus 2

Fig. 2. A three-phase transmission line connecting two infinite busses together. (a) If the per-phase (line-to-neutral) voltage on the sending infinite bus is 8010 kV and the per-phase voltage on the receiving infinite bus is 760kV, how much real and reactive power are being supplied by the transmission line to the receiving bus? (b) If the per-phase voltage on the sending infinite bus is changed to 8210 kV, how much real and reactive power are being supplied by the transmission line to the receiving bus? Which changed more, the real or the reactive power supplied to the load? (c) If the per-phase voltage on the sending infinite bus is changed to 8015 kV, how much real and reactive power are being supplied by the transmission line to the receiving bus? Compared to the conditions in part (a), which changed more, the real or the reactive power supplied to the load? (d) From the above results, how could real power flow be controlled in a transmission line? How could reactive power flow be controlled in a transmission line?