1.

Bus for load flow studies are classified as (i) load bus (ii) the generator bus and
(iii) the slack bus
The correct combination of the pair of quantities specified having their usual
meaning for different buses are
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

Load bus
P,|V|
P,Q
|V|,Q
P,

generator bus
P,Q
P ,|V|
P,
Q,|V|

Slack bus
P,
|V|,
P,Q
Q,

2. Load flow study is carried out for

a. Fault calculations
b. Stability studies
c. System planning
d. Load frequency control
3. For load flow studies the quantities normally specified at a voltage controlled bus
are
a. P and Q
b. P and |V|
c. Q and |V|
d. P and
4. A voltage controlled bus is treated as a load bus in subsequent iteration when its
a. Voltage limit is violated
b. Active power limit is violated
c. Reactive power limit violated
d. Phase angle limit is violated
5. The voltage of a particular bus can be controlled by controlling the
a. Phase angle
b. Reactive power of the bus
c. Active power of the bus
d. Phase angle and reactive power
6. The load flow solution always assured in case of
a. Newton Raphson method
b. Gauss method
c. Gauss-siedel method
d. None of these methods guarantees
7. For a 15-bus power system with 3 voltage controlled bus , the size of Jacobian
matrix is
a. 1111
b. 1212
c. 2424
d. 2828

8. Voltage control bus is characterized by the specified

a. Real and reactive powers
b. Real power and voltage phase angle
c. Real power and voltage magnitude
d. Reactive power and voltage magnitude
9. The convergence characteristic of the Newton Raphson method for solving a
load flow problem is
a. Quadratic
b. Linear
c. Geometric
d. Cubic
10. Load flow equations are non-linear True /False
11. Majority of buses in power system are load buses - True /False
12. At a generator bus P and Q are specified - True /False
13. Slack bus is load bus- True /False
14. NR method in polar coordinates results in lesser number of equations- True /False
15. NR method is based on Taylor series - True /False
16. Acceleration factor is less than 1- True /False
17. The most common buses in a power system are _____________ bus
18. A generator bus is a ___________ bus
19. In _____________ method , the convergence id dependent on the choice of slack
bus
20. NR method requires ______________ number of iterations than GS method of
Load flow
21. At PQ buses we assume ________________ and ________________________
22. Acceleration factor is commonly used in load flow studies using G-S method True /False
23. A direct solution of load flow problem is not possible - True /False
24. N-R method is preferred to G-S method for load flow studies in power systems True /False
25. Fast decoupled is based on the fact that real power flows mainly depend on
voltage magnitude and reactive power flow depend on the power angle - True /
False
26. What is meant by term Jacobian?
27. What is meant by compact storage scheme in load flow analysis?
28. What are the advantages of NR method over GS method?
29. What is meant by sparsity ?
30. How is sparsity useful in load flow analysis?
31. How buses are classified?
32. Mention the assumptions made in Fast Decoupled Load Flow ?
33. ________________ matrix is used in load flow studies
34. In the fast decoupled load flow the [B] and [B] contains the network admittance
term only - True /False
35. For measuring the positive and zero sequence voltages in a system , the
reference is taken as

a. Neutral of the system only

b. Ground only
c. For zero sequence neutral and for positive and negative th ground
d. None of the above
36. List the assumptions made in DC load flow
37. The total number of sequence voltage components in a 3- phase system is
_________________
38. Give reason why one of the bus in a power system is taken as a slack bus
39. What are the two constraints that load flow study should satisfy ?