Assignment
Assignment
1. Explain how the study of power system transient is important for insulation design?
2. Derive wave equation of travelling waves in transmission lines.
3. Explain switching operations involving transmission lines.
4. Construct a Bewley lattice diagram for open circuit and short-circuited lossless transmission
line.
5. Explain reflection and refraction of travelling waves in detail.
6. What is shield wire? Explain direct lightning strokes to overhead lines with shield wires.
7. Derive mathematical modelling of lightning.
8. Explain insulation coordination in GIS.
9. Explain deterministic and statistical approaches to insulation coordination.
10. Write short note on surge capacitors and surge reactors. What are their uses?
11. How rotating machines are protected against surges?
12. Write short note on Protection of control circuit.
13. Explain surge protection scheme for industrial system.
14. What is the need of simulation studies? List out the basic points of EMPT software and steps
to do simulation study of a sample power system.
15. Explain the necessity of grounding for protection against lightning.
16. Write a short note on hybrid program.
17. Analyse the effect of travelling waves on multi conductor circuits.
18. Explain the mechanism of lightning stroke. What are the main characteristics of lightning
strokes?
19. Discuss the various sources of power transients.
20. Discuss the phenomenon of wave reflection and refraction. Derive expressions for reflection
and refraction coefficients.
21. How the ground wires and tower footing resistance protect the transmission line from
lightning transients? Explain.
22. Derive and expression for the voltage across the terminating inductance connected at the
end of a line on which a step wave of magnitude E is travelling.
23. Explain capacitance switching and current chopping with appropriate waveform and
equivalent circuit.
24. Derive and expression for the voltage across the line terminated by Capacitance. Take
necessary assumption.
25. Explain about EMTP for the applications of transient computation.